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The first figures of the national child labour survey, carried out since November 2012, were presented yesterday; the information gathered results from 20 provinces, and according to the involved authorities the results will intensify efforts to eradicate the work of children in...

Members of Syria’s opposition accused the forces of President Bashar al Assad to attack hundreds of people with poison gas in Damascus and for causing the death of up to 1 300 people, in what would be the worst attack with chemical weapons in the world in decades. Many...

The assemblyman of CREO movement said that “there are serious gaps in the investigation by the Attorney General of the State” with respect to the case of Argentine entrepreneur Gaston Duzac, who received an irregular loan of $ 800,000 by the Bank Cofiec. Paez reported...

The Ecuadorian Government announced yesterday the arrest of the Colombian Jorge Domingues known as Palustre, one of the heads of the extreme right band  linked to the drug trade known as “Los Rastrojos”  that was strengthened  after the disarmament and demobilization...

The procession of the Virgen del Cisne finally culminated in the city of Loja. She arrived yesterday at 4:00pm, with thousands of local and foreign parishioners, who despite the cold and rain escorted “la portentosa” on her tour around the country. The Virgin arrived...

On Tuesday, the regime leader Rafael Correa, prompted as a challenge to the opposition to collect signatures for consultation regarding the oil exploitation in Yasuni. The president said that if this is done, the government will have popular support. “Understand that there...

The transmission of the Qatari Group Al – Jazeera began yesterday at 19:00 (14:00 in Ecuador) in the United States to around 40 million homes, promising a serious journalism and in-depht information. During the first broadcast Al – Jazeera America offered 14 hours...

Since July 2008 the Spanish Social Security has lost 165.558 Ecuadorian members. Acordding to the figures which indicate that there are 97.738 Ecuadorians until July 2013, however, five years ago, during the same period in 2008, the Social Security  registered 263.396...

On Tuesday, August 20, Guayaquil police seized 4.4 tons of cocaine hidden in a load of palm that was to be sent to Spain from the port of Guayaquil. The drug was discovered last Friday, it was previously estimated at 3.2 tons of cocaine, but after a more thorough check it was...

On September 30 Pope Francis will make the announcement of the date selected for the canonization of  his predecessors Juan Pablo II (1978-2005) and Juan XXIII (1958-1963), the Vatican sources announced. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the causes of Saints,...