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After being detained for a month in New Zealand, the German Internet entrepreneur Kim Schmitz, Megaupload creator, was released on bail today. On Wednesday, the Auckland court judge ruled during the questioning that there was no special danger of escape. The other three partners...

Yesterday the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) published precautionary measures for the directors of El Universo and the former editor of opinion Emilio Palacio. The organization also requested the Ecuadorian government the suspension of the sentence passed by...

Afghanistan is having the coldest winter in years, more than 40 people have died frozen from the cold, medical officials said. The Ministry of Health has registered 41 deaths so far, mostly children, due to freezing in three provinces. Except for four children, 24 infants died in...

This Tuesday former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is being interrogated by the judicial police of Lille, in the north of France regarding a case of solicitation. So far eight people are involved, the District office has temporarily...

The health of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez controversy renews after his surprise trip to Cuba, the last weekend. Government spokesmen have chosen not to give any comment, however several media say it is a breakdown in the health of President Chavez. Nelson Bocaranda, a...

The Greek economy will grow only in 2014 after a four-year recession that contract production by 17%, officials of the European Unionsaid Tuesday, warning that Athens needs to cut wages further to have its government debt at manageable levels. Hours after the finance ministers of...

The Court of Justice of Sucumbios rejected the provision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, an Ecuadorian ruling ordering the U.S. oil company Chevron to pay 18,000 million dollars as compensation for polluting Amazon area. “Recognizing that the award is...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) informed that it’s in talks with all the parties concerned about Syria’s crisis to negotiate a ceasefire. The group is working on a truce in the most affected areas to deliver aid packages. Bijan Farnoudi, ICRC, stated that the...

After the suspension of the 3rd and 4th date in series A of the National Soccer Championship by  Alfredo Intriago, president of the FEF (Ecuadorian Soccer Federation) due to the strike of referees, President Rafael Correa asked the soccer judges to abandon this measure and to...

Rafael Correa‘s government is promoting the Organic Law for the creation of the Council of Inequality, which will be discussed at the next National Assembly, said the Ecuadorian president during his weekly report. Correa had a meeting earlier in the week where he presented...