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  At least 81 people, including 23 members of Al Qaeda, were killed in Russian bombings against a complex of the Islamist group located in northwestern Syria, reported on Sunday an NGO, revising upwards its previous balance. Saturday’s attacks were directed against a...

  Lucia Vallecilla, defense attorney of Luis Chiriboga Acosta, suspended president of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF for its Spanish acronym) and who is under house arrest, said that her defendant is innocent of the crime of money laundering and other offenses...

American actor Sean Penn and Mexican actress Kate del Castillo had a top secret meeting with the drug lord Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman. This was revealed in an interview published on Saturday, January 9 in the Rolling Stone magazine. Entitled “El Chapo speaks,”...

  Patricio Barriga, National Secretary of Communication, in an interview with daily El Comercio, said that in the construction of a news, especially by the private media, there is a negative behind. He denies that the public media are governmental and states reasoned reviews...

  30 artisans from the suburbs of Guayaquil are driving this effort to convert the display of new year´s eve puppets (paper giants) in a tourist route in the city Many have the desire to see the suburb as the neighborhood of giant puppets. José Cedeño, one of the pioneers of...

  The “difficult” economic situation knocks the doors of various sectors. In the stock market something happened that might sound tiny into perspective, but for the group of investors that are affected, surely not. Some companies have ceased payments (default)...

  Twelve trips abroad of Alianza PAIS (AP) assembly members were to join President Rafael Correa on official tours, that represented travel allowances for $ 27,887.50. The more distant and expensive trip was Correa’s visit to China, from 2 to 11 January 2015. Four...

  Ecuador will pay 980 million dollars to the US oil company Oxy until April this year, after the sentence imposed by a court of arbitration of the World Bank for canceling an extraction contract in 2006, reported Saturday President Rafael Correa. “The arbitration...

  Between January and November 2015, the National Assembly registered $ 2’031.884,47 for travel expenses and the mobilization of legislators, servers and security staff. Of this amount, $ 532,725.36 were spent in travels abroad: $ 232,889.55 were spent in travel...