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The Chilean Senate approved a legal framework that guarantees equal rights to couples of the same or opposite sex out of wedlock on Tuesday. The project known as Couples Life Agreement (AVP for its Spanish acronym), was sent to the Senate by President Sebastián Piñera in 2011,...

Militants of the `Participa´ political Movement of the Prefect of Azuay, Paúl Carrasco, were upset with the delivery of the manifest to President Rafael Correa by the Mayor of Cuenca, Marcelo Cabrera, who belongs to `Igualdad´poilitical Movement. According to the Directo...

The Swedish Academy has announced this Thursday, October 9 the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, the awarded is the French Patrick Modiano. The jury has argued that the prize was awarded to Modiano “for his art of memory with which he has evoked the most difficult human...

The Committee on Rights of the Workers of the Assembly will convene Edith Duke, liquidator of Edimpres. With this, it is expected clarify the state of the sale of goods of Hoy newspaper and the settlement payments to employees. Betty Carrillo (AP), President of the Commission,...

In the morning, local authorities paid a fitting tribute to the city of Guayaquil for its 194 years of independence, placing wreaths at the Column of the Heroes, in the central Parque Centenario. The Pearl of the Pacific, the national economic engine, is celebrating, and...

The Office of Human Rights of the United Nations today unveiled a report that indicates that at least 331 people were killed in eastern Ukraine despite the cease-fire of last September 5 between the Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatist. The report, prepared by organism...

The Minister of Production, Richard Espinosa, said that about 900 million USD have been replaced in imports from January to the current date. Espinosa explained that the goal of replacing purchases, which was established for USD 840 million for 2014, was overcome. According to...

The Ecuarunari, subsidiary of the Conaie from the Ecuadorian highlands, announced that it will not register with any Ministry through the Unified Information System of Social and Citizen Organizations (Suios), as required in the Decree 16, approved on June 4, 2013, for its legal...

Last Tuesday the Government of Panama rejected the decision of the Colombian government of declaring the Central American country as a “tax haven” and announced that it currently works to “implement applicable measures” against its southern neighbor...

The Department of State announced yesterday that John Kerry, Secretary of State, will travel to Cairo this week to participate in the international conference on rebuilding Gaza. Jen Psaki, State Department spokeswoman, said that Kerry will attend the international donor...