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Five defined presidential candidates, two missing

Among the seven national political groups to participate in elections in February next year, five presidential candidates are defined and two undefined. Unless a last-minute unforeseen happens, the defined candidates would be: Lucio Gutierrez for the Partido Sociedad Patriotica...
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12 political groups outside the electoral race

The National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) announced the list of national political groups who failed the signature verification process, ie, movements that did not meet the minimum requirement of 157,000 support signatures. Reproved national political forces:...
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Doctors Remove President Santos Probe

The doctor of the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, confirmed this Wednesday that after a week of a successful recovery from the president, the urethral probe that he had was removed, the doctor recommended him to restrain from moving too much, because he was moving a lot....
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Nobel Prize reduces prize money to the winners

A statement released by the Nobel Foundation announced, this morning,  a 20% cut of  the financial allocations to be given to the winners. This year, the winners in the six categories: Medicine, Chemistry, Physics, Literature, Economics and Peace, will receive a prize money of $...
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Russian court releases one of the members of Pussy Riot

Yekaterina Samutsevich, one of the members of the Russian punk band, Pussy Riot, was released today after the president of the appeal court of Moscow ordered the commutation of her two years prison sentence for a probation one. The court considered the defense allegations o...
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Supreme Leader of Los Zetas Dies in Military Operative

Heriberto ‘el Lazca’ Lazcano, the supreme leader of the gruesome cartel Los Zetas was taken down by Marines of Mexico. This is one of the strongest blows carried out against the drug cartels on behalf of the ending government of the president Felipe Calderon. According to the...
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Monument in Honor of Leon Febres-Cordero is accepted

The Second Chamber of the Civil and Commercial of the Provincial Court of Guayas lifted the entry ban of the monument in honor of late former president Leon Febres-Cordero, into the country. The Board reversed the decision of a lower judiciary, which hosted a protective action...
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Correa speaks of bonus increase

During a discussion with the Association of Broadcasters of Ecuador, President Rafael Correa confirmed that his government is developing a tax package with the purpose of increasing the human development bonus from $ 35 to $ 50. The proposed increase of bonus was raised by the...
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ATP Shanghai: Djokovic, Murray and Feliciano go to next round

Tennis players Novak Djokovic (Serbia), Andy Murray (Britain) and Feliciano Lopez (Spain) classified this Wednesday to the next round of the ATP Shanghai, China. Djokovic, world number two, did not have much trouble beating Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov by 6-3, 6-2. Meanwhile, Murray...
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Correa and Nebot Honor Guayaquil Separately

For the last six years, the Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa and the Mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, have commemorated the independence of the city at the same place, Malecon 2000, and at the same time, but in different parts of it. One in the north side and the other in the...
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