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Police sources said on Tuesday at least four people were killed in a gunfire between members of the Brazilian police and residents of the favela de Rola, in the west of Rio de Janeiro. The shooting began during an operation carried out by the Civil Police to combat drug...

Paul McCartney, former Beatle, had to cancel his Asian tour, after staying sick in Tokyo hospital due to an unknown virus. Organizers of the event said that the 71 years old star left the country last Monday in a private plane headed to London, although the singer’s...

The former Deputy Secretary of U.S. Hemispheric Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela, rejected the imposition of sanctions from his country to Venezuela; considering them “counterproductive.” Valenzuela assured that it is necessary to leave “the spiral of polarization...

Lafarge, a French company, announced the sale of its concrete operations in Ecuador for 553 million dollars, to the Andean Union Cement (Unacem for its Spanish acronym). This sale will contribute Lafarge´s goal of reducing its net debt below 9 billion euros in 2014 (USD 12,250...

The elected President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, today promised to quickly crush the separatist insurgency in the east, which runs the risk that Russia will cut off the gas supply, also affecting Europe. “We will not allow any longer that these terrorists kidnap and kill...

In order to decrease the time it may take to materialize a mortgage pending, last Tuesday at a meeting between the president of the Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (BIESS for its Spanish acronym), Victor Hugo Villacres, and several entrepreneurs of nine real...

The Association of Pharmaceutical Laboratories of Ecuador submitted its proposal to the government to participate in the process of changing the production model reducing the number of imports and replace them with national product. The commitment of the pharmaceutical industry...

A trade mission from Peru visited Ecuador this week to promote 10 gastronomic franchises to local entrepreneurs. The presentation of the companies was held yesterday at the Dann Carlton hotel, where seafood, ice drinks, chicken, sandwiches and ceviche companies attended the...

The television network E! Entertainment, which transmits the reality show of the Kardashian family, published exclusive photos of the wedding of media star Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West, which was held in Florence, at Forte di Belvedere (a castle dating from the sixteenth...

The plenary session of the National Assembly will have tomorrow the first debate of the Organic Law of the Public Electricity Service. The unification of electricity tariffs for users, is among the topics contained in the project, which was submitted by the Executive and studied...