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First fatality of Ebola registered in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

A doctor died because of the Ebola virus in the Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, which makes it the first fatality registered outside Lagos, where five people have died because of the disease. The victim, Ike Enemuo, attended a member of the Economic Community of West African...
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CNT invests $ 36 million in 4G technology

With an investment of $ 36 million, the National Telecommunications Corporation (CNT) offers 4G technology (higher browsing speed) for smartphones with voice plans and mobile internet. This was reported by the public entity through a statement, in which It also explained that the...
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Gaza receives humanitarian assistance after the ceasefire

The Gaza Strip began to receive humanitarian aid and consumer products this Thursday, after being devastated by 50 days of war that came to an end on Tuesday night. Today, Kerem Shalom had a long line of trucks loaded with commodities for Gaza shops, and others from the UN agency...
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Patiño said that KAS Foundation leaves because they had ‘nothing to do’ in the country

After 50 years of presence in Ecuador, the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS for its Spanish acronym), left the country. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ricardo Patiño, said yesterday that this is because this entity no longer had “nothing to do” in the country....
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Mayor Nebot speaks of surplus value charges, imposed by Correa

For the Mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, the issue of capital gain of the sale of lands charge reveals the background of creating a new tax, referring to the announcement made by President Rafael Correa. To this, he alerted:”(The government) wants to make a law that says...
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`Full House’ returns with its original cast

‘Full House,’ the famous series of a special family formed by Danny, his daughters DJ, Stephanie and Michelle, who upon the death of his wife calls his best friend Joey and brother in law, Uncle Jesse for help in parenting the girls, aired for 8 seasons, from...
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Fernando Balda was not released from jail yesterday as planned

The former assemblyman of the Sociedad Patriótica party, Fernando Balda, was not released yesterday as planned, after a judge declared on Tuesday defunct the penalty of slander for which he was convicted. The transfer of the release ballot, issued by Judge Fabiola Gallardo,...
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Ecuador increases its banana exports

Exports of bananas from Ecuador increased by 17.22% from January to May this year. Additional 18.8 million boxes were exported, reaching 128.1 million cartons. The statistics from the Association of Banana Exporters (AEBE for its Spanish acronym) show that during the same period...
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Hoy’s workers will be unemployed from September

The 154 workers of daily Hoy will come to the facilities of the newspaper in Quito until August 31, after that day they will be unemployed. This is one of the side effects of the closure of the company and the intervention of the Superintendency of Companies. Daily Hoy had 32...
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Former chief of Escobar hit men is released and generates mixed reactions

The release from prison of John Jairo Velasquez, alias Popeye, Head of assassins of the deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar, who just fulfilled three fifths of his sentence, has generated controversy in Colombia. Velásquez received on Tuesday the parole because he worked and studied...
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