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This morning, Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, Spain Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation asked the European Union (EU) that Colombia, Peru and Ecuador continue to be beneficiaries of development aid and the tariff preferences granted.   (BG)

Ambassador of Ecuador in Britain, Ana Alban, arrived yesterday to the country, to consider Assange’s political asylum application. The ambassador came at the request of President Rafael Correa. While in Ecuador, Alban will talk with Foreign Ministry officials and the President to...

During the upcoming days the United States Supreme Court will have far-reaching implications regarding issues in American politics: health care and immigration. The US Supreme court strikes down 3 of 4 points of the immigration provisions in question. Now the police require to...

Ousted Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo qualified the country’s new government as illegitimate and called for democracy to be restored. Lugo pointed out that the his removal from office was “a parliamentary coup against the will of the people.” The former president said that he...

Last Sunday died at age 120 years, Lonesome George, the last tortoise of the “Chelonoidis Abringdoni” species. The giant tortoise native to the Galapagos Islands, died childless after unsuccessful attempts to find a female of its species for reproduction and...

The army of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is starting to fall apart after dozens of its soldiers, including two generals and two coronels, deserted through the border into Turkey this Monday. According to the news agency of Anadolu the 33 deserters of the Syrian army...

This Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu stated that the shooting down of one of its military fighters jets by Syria is a hostile act. The message was delivered by the ministry spokesman Selcuk Unal who called the incident as a “hostile movement.” Meanwhile...

Mohammed Morsi is the first freely elected president in Egypt’s history and the first elected Islamist president in the Arab World. This was the Electoral Commission statement amid tremendous excitement generated by the delayed election announcement, expected for days....

Last night the Ecuadorian singer Danilo Rosero was the honored in the 3rd annual presentation of ‘Made in Ecuador’ Awards. Several famous performers attended the event, such as Michelle Cordero, Rocko and Blasty, Los Gemelos y Orlay, among others. The night was filled with dance...

This Saturday Syria informed it shot down a Turkish reconnaissance plane, because the aircraft entered its airspace. This action tenses the desperate violence in the country, now Turkey threatened to retaliate, however it did not said what action it would take as it searched for...