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Today at 09:30 some delegates and guests were in the National Assembly plenary session to hear the report to the Nation by President Rafael Correa.  On his report Correa highlighted that the rates of extreme poverty in the country are less than 10%. “Today a basket of food...

British government gave an extra 5 million pounds (US$7,8 million) worth of aid to Syria’s opposition. The nonlethal supplies include communications equipment, body armor and medical supplies for the groups that fight to oust President Bashar al-Assad and his regime from Syria....

Google continues its flurry of interactive doodles and now it’s up to Olympic soccer after the hurdles, basketball and slalom canoeing. As a characteristic of all interactive doodles, it is easy to play. The player must move with the left / right keys to move and smash the...

Domingo Paredes, President of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym), publicly released the results of the verification of 10% of signatures of the different qualified political organizations. Paredes reported that the Partido Sociedad Patriotica (PSP for...

Guayaquil slaughterhouse workers returned to work this morning after two consecutive days of strike and riots. This morning, dozens of workers were preparing to market the meat around 5:00. The strike was cause because the workers were against the rate increase and alleged...

Ecuadorian sprinter, Alex Quinonez, 22, was seventh in the final of the 200-meter dash in London 2012 with a mark of 20.57 seconds. The Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, 25, won the gold with a time of 19.37 seconds. Usain Bolt is enshrined as the world’s fastest man and...

Recently Iran appealed to the Syrian government and the rebels to open peace talks channels. The announcement was made in hastily arranged international meeting regarding the conflict. Ali Akbar Salehi, the Iranian Foreign Minister said his country opposed “any foreign and...

The son of former President Abdala Bucaram Ortiz, Abdala Bucaram Pulley, claims to have photographs of the three meetings at the Carondelet Palace that he held with President Rafael Correa and Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño to show the agreement in which the return of his father...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will formally strip Tyler Hamilton from his gold medal in road cycling that he obtained in Athens 2004 Games, due to his confession of having used banned substances to improve his athletic performance. IOC’s executive board will...

Yesterday afternoon, Barcelona Sporting Club beats by 5-1 Deportivo Tachira of Venezuela in the Monumental Banco Pichincha Stadium. With this overwhelming victory, the yellow team accessed to the second phase of the Copa Sudamericana tournament, to face the Chilean team Cobreloa....