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The Brazilian government on Thursday declared a state of emergency in 126 municipalities of the state of Rio Grande do Sul due to heavy rains that have been lashing for weeks southern Brazil and causing flooding. More than 18 thousand 300 people were evacuated due to flooding,...

The package of 18 constitutional amendments that the Alianza PAÍS (AP) movement referred two weeks ago to the Constitutional Court (CC) is being revised since yesterday. A process which shall verify whether the request meets the requirements of law to be declared admissible. The...

The President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has promised this Friday to “find and destroy” pro-Russian separatists responsible for the death of some twenty Ukrainian soldiers by a Grad missile attack in the Lugansk region, east of country. Poroshenko convened an urgent...

President Rafael Correa visited yesterday the 17 and F sector, in the suburbs of Guayaquil, where works on the recovery of Salado Estuary are being carried out. The President checked the fulfillment of the cleaning and water oxygenation. Paola Galvez, Zonal Director of the...

Today ends the fourth round of negotiations between Ecuador and the European Union (EU) in Belgium, to seek a trade agreement. President Rafael Correa said yesterday that “very few points of conflict are left”, and hoped that this was the last round. EU sources said...

An official close to the Federal Migration Service (FMS, for its English acronym) has said that Russia will probably extend the temporary asylum to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, according to statements released this Friday. “I see no problem in...

Repsol will exploit in Ecuador a new field in the province of Orellana, named Wati, in which it is estimated there are between five and six million barrels of oil, said Luis García Sánchez, representative of the company in Ecuador. This area is “an area at the south of...

In Gaza, the Palestinian death toll climbed to 100 today because of an Israeli bombing on a vehicle traveling in the Palestinian refugee camp of Al Bureij, in central Gaza, which killed two people, according to the local Ministry of Health. Among the latest casualties of the...