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Products such as butter, sugar and yeast, required for making bread, recorded a price increase of up to 15% this week. The situation worries the bakers because the wheat quintal price also increased this week. Representatives of the union argues that the profit margin has...

Cuban Yoani Sanchez, author of “Generation Y” blog, considers it a paradox that the Australian Julian Assange, star of a “crusade for information”, has been granted asylum by the Government of Ecuador, which has a “hard and aggressive” policy...

President Barack Obama’s campaign offered Mitt Romney a deal, ‘if he releases five years of tax returns, Obama’s team won’t criticize him for not releasing any more’. Jim Messina, Obama’s campaign manager, made the offer to Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades through a letter...

According to preliminary data released today by the EU statistical office, Eurostat, in June, the euro area resulted in a growth considered to 14,900 million euros in the trade balance surplus, compared to the balance of 200 million recorded in June last year. In the countries of...

Today during an interview with several local radio stations in Loja (Ecuador), President Rafael Correa justified the diplomatic asylum granted yesterday to Wikileaks’ founder, Julian Assange. The president stressed that a key factor to grant him asylum was that he “was not...

This morning it was reported that singer Madonna has to face about nine lawsuits with claims for compensation for more than 10 million dollars in the St. Petersburg court, in Russia, for alleged “moral damage“. Alexander Pochúev, representing the applicants, said that...

After 15 days of being linked to a possible case of drug trafficking, the prosecutor Leonidas Lema referred the former governor of Manabi, Cesar Fernandez, to new criminal proceedings for alleged money laundering. On August 2 Cesar Fernandez was arrested for allegedly engaging in...

In extraordinary session, the Ecuadorian National Assembly decided this morning to condemn the threatened use of force in the UK, reported on Wednesday by Foreign Minister of Ecuador Ricardo Patiño. Of the 80 legislators present, 73 votes and seven abstentions decided to consider...

U.S. denied any intentions to “pursue” the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange and denied having pressured Great Britain to stop him. “Regarding the charge that the United States sought to pursue him, I reject it completely,” said State Department...

General Commissioner, Riah Phiyega, of the South Africa police department confirmed today that 34 miners died after colliding with the orders of policemen. The massacre occurred last Thursday during riots in a mine of South Africa, 79 people were also injured. A total of 259...