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Banana industry worries about fruits tariff

Importers must pay a fee for entering the Ecuadorian fruit to various markets worldwide. This measure concerns the banana sector. In the case of the European Union, the protection will change from 37 cents to 54 cents. This, from 2015. “It is true that we have signed an...
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Israel denies that Netanyahu has accepted creation of Palestinian state based on 1967 borders

The office of Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has denied that he had agreed to create a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, thus refuting the statement made by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. “Such a thing has never happened,” said...
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Experimental Ebola vaccine will be tested in humans

An experimental vaccine for Ebola from GlaxoSmithKline will be tested in humans in the Clinical Center Bethesda (Maryland), on the outskirts of Washington next week. “We got the green light to start,” said Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy...
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IMF Board will meet to study the Lagarde case

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it plans to discuss “very soon” the imputation of Christine Lagarde in France for “negligence” when she was Minister of Economics in 2008, said the Board Spokesman Gerry Rice. The spokesman...
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Tagging on products of first group of companies is mandatory starting today

From this Friday, August 29, medium and large companies that manufacture, import or sell processed food products, shall have their packaging displayed with the label that indicates the level of sugar, fat and salt using colors red (high), yellow (middle) and low (green). In...
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The SIP calls “outrage” the intervention in Diario Hoy

The Inter American Press Association (SIP for its Spanish acronym) called the Diario Hoy intervention by the Superintendency of Companies an “outrage for freedom of information”. Claudio Paolillo, President of the Committee on Freedom of Press and Information of the...
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Putin urges pro-Russians to open humanitarian corridors in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine to open humanitarian corridors and allow the withdrawal of government force soldiers, who are surrounded. “I call on the rebels to open a humanitarian corridor for Ukrainian troops who...
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Report on Monetary Code is ready

On its report on the veto to the Monetary and Financial Code sent by the Executive, the Commission of Economic Regime of the National Assembly, insists that the forgery and concealing of information about a financial institution must have not only criminal sanctions, but also...
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UN says number of Syrian refugees exceeds three million

As announced by the United Nations (UN) in a statement, more than three million Syrians have fled the civil war currently affecting their country, just to become refugees, a million of them in the last year alone, not counting hundreds of thousands of people who fled without...
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Employees of Daily Hoy will receive settlement payments calculated on August month-end-closing

Yesterday was scheduled to be culminated  the inventory of assets and chattels of Edimpres (Daily Hoy), which will be sold to meet obligations of the company with 172 workers, social security and company suppliers. The liquidator appointed by the Superintendency of Companies,...
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