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The mobile operator Porta, a subsidiary of America Movil in Ecuador, announced today that it will operate under the brand name Claro since the second quarter of 2011. In a statement the company said the change “does not imply any modification to the users in services,...

The liberation of the six hostages that FARC guerrilla announced last week ended today. The senior police officer, Guillermo Solórzano, and Army officer, Salim Antonio Sanmiguel, members of the Armed Forces of Colombia, were released today and received by a humanitarian mission...

According to the website www.thisamericanlife.org the mysterious Coca-Cola´s recipe was discovered in a photograph of an article published in the newspaper “Atlanta Journal Constitution” in 1979. The image shows a list of ingredients hand written in 1886 by a friend of th...

Francisco Vergara resigned to his position as general secretary of the National Assembly, after more than 3 years in his office, first as secretary of the Constituent Assembly and later as secretary of the National Assembly. His place will be occupied by Andres Segovia. According...

You might have eaten plastic rice the last time you ordered Chinese food since certain Chinese companies are mass producing and selling fake rice According to a report in the Korean- language Weekly Hong Kong, the rice is made from potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic industrial...

The Ministers of Tourism, Freddy Ehlers, and Heritage Coordinator, Maria Fernanda Espinosa, inaugurated the 13 miles stretch of the train that runs along “Nariz del Diablo”, and had already begun to operate 2 weeks ago. With around a hundred of local people, as well...

The election of Miss Ecuador will be on March 17. The event will be held in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, an Ecuadorian city. The 19 young representatives from the different cities of the country are attending to: Diction, runway, and clothing classes. They are receiving as...

According to the report Egyptian authorities handed in on Sunday, at least 17 major artworks were stolen from The Egyptian Museum (Located in Tahrir Square) during the riots that lasted three weeks in Cairo. Irina Bokova, director of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific...

The proclamation of country’s flag bearers and flag escorts in private, charters, and state schools will change for the next academic year 2011-2012. Now the designation will be made in tenth basic education year (known before now as third year) and not in seventh (known...

The protests that led to the fall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt caused a wave of reactions in several countries of the Maghreb and the Middle East. BAHRAIN Since Monday in Bahrain, there have been demonstrations calling for political and social...