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This Friday Ban Ki-moon, the UN chief recommended the UN Security Council that its Syria monitoring mission should focus to secure a political solution to the conflict that has killed over 17,000 people. The divided council must make a decision on what to do with the UN mission...

This morning, the directors of Club Sport Emelec confirmed the recruitment of Argentine Gustavo Quinteros to lead the electric set. Quinteros coach selection will arrive from Bolivia on Monday, July 9, at 12:00 (GMT). Then he will sign his contract to take over as the new coach...

Enrique Peña Nieto, the leftwing candidate in Mexico’s presidential election was elected as president as the official count confirmed a clear victory for the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI for its Spanish acronym). The vote counts showed a clear winner, Enrique...

The Nobel Committee for Peace, which promotes the candidacy of Vice President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, to receive that award, so far has collected two million signatures supporting the nomination, said the president of that group, Hector Cueva. The collection of signatures began...

This morning, Ecuadorian singer Michelle Cordero presented her new music video “Caramelo.” In the video, the young singer travels with her band around Ecuador, touring different locations of the country such as mountains and beaches. This video was produced by Felipe...

This morning, Swiss tennis player Roger Federer beat Novak Djokovic by 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, thus advancing to the  Final Match of Wimbledon. Federer prepares to face this Sunday Andy Murray who beats Jo-Wilfried Tsonga by 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. If so, the Swiss would take the top...

“Morena FM never fell into arrears, it never fell into arrears”, said today Luis Almeida, one of the owners Ecuadorian radio station Morena. The National Council of Radio and Television (Conartel) has decided to withdraw the frequency 98.1FM in Guayaquil. Almeida said...

The National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym) dismissed the application of electronic voting for 2013 elections. “We will definitely not us the electronic voting, only on a trial scale at Cuenca (Azuay) in four or ten polling stations, which is...

The town of Rikuzentakata in Japan started a Facebook campaign to save the only tree left standing after the tsunami that hit the coast of the country in March 2011. The 27.5 meter-tall pine withstood the disaster, has become a symbol of reconstruction and is the star of a...

Yesterday, the Committee of Workers of Ecuador Assembly approved the report for a second debate of the special retirement project. This project reduces to 25 years the time of contributions and the limit to voluntarily retire will be at age 55 for a woman. Currently retirement...