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To include junk food like a Special Consumption Tax is in process

The possibility to include the junk food in the Special Consumption Tax (ICE for its Spanish acronym) is still under analysis in various levels of the government. The SRI (Internal Revenue Service for its Spanish acronym) and the Ministry of Health maintain meetings at technical...
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Commission for report the Telecomunications Reform Law is designated

The Commission of the Autonomous Governments will analyze and prepare the report for discussion, at the plenary session of the Assembly, for the amendments to the Special Telecommunications Law that seeks the redistribution of the profits of workers in phone companies. The...
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Electronic money will be tested on 8 cooperatives

Eight cooperatives will participate in a pilot scheme to test the electronic money sistem. To do this, the representatives of these entities and the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym) have signed an agreement the morning of September 30. The electronic money,...
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Council provides for define the profile of advocate for the LOC

The Council of Citizen Participation (Cpccs) plans on October 1 performing the second debate on the regulation that will be used to choose the defenders of the hearings or the reader inside the Communications Law (LOC). This figure, according to regulations, should be the one to...
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Julia Pierson resigns to the direction of US Secret Service

U.S. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson resigned under fire on Wednesday after a series of security lapses came to light involving the protection for President Barack Obama. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson announced Pierson’s resignation and said Joseph Clancy, a...
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Leopoldo Lopez’s trial fulfilled its 5th hearing and will continue on October 14

The trial against radical opposition leader Leopoldo López, accused of calling for violence in the protests that from February to May hit Venezuela with a toll of 43 dead, was resumed on Tuesday. At the fifth hearing, which started almost two hours late and counted with the...
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Catalan government will seek suspension lift against independence query

The President of the Catalan Government, Artur Mas, said this Wednesday that “right now” is not in the “stage” of “civil disobedience”, but on that of asking the Constitutional Court to lift the suspension of the query. At a meeting in the...
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Robin Williams autopsy results are delayed

The results of the autopsy of actor Robin Williams, who died on August 11, should have been ready by September 30, but apparently there is evidence that still needs to be completed, so the coroner’s office in charge of the analysis decided to postpone the delivery of the...
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Correa regulates requests for presidential pardon

President Rafael Correa issued yesterday by executive decree regulations for the “granting of pardon, commutation and reducing sentences”. The regulation states that the request for presidential clemency must be applied at the Ministry of Justice. This should meet...
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Attack on bus stop kills 10 people in Ukraine

Ten people were killed in the city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, eight of them by an artillery shell impact on a bus and its stop, the “Ukrinform” agency reported. “Apparently, the bullet was fired from a missile launcher of multiple mouth. Most of the dead...
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