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CENTURION, South Africa. A nationwide strike for higher salaries is being held by South African civil servants unions in order to generate the necessary amount of time for members to consider government’s latest offer, said labor leaders on Monday. On the 20th day of a strike...

The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy put into practice this Monday the new measures against crime and illegal immigration. Subject announced last July on a new reform that included an immigration law that would facilitate the expulsion of the undocumented. The new measure allows...

Guatemala City, The tropical depression and the heavy rains caused landslides that killed at least 37 people. On Sunday the country’s emergency services said that it could claim as many as 100 lives. In addition, there are reports of 30 people injured and 23 more are missing...

The Venezuelan actress Gabriela Spanic was hospitalized this Sunday after being poisoned by nearly 4 months. Apparently her assistant Maria Celeste Fernández is the author of such cruel act; she put small ammonia sulphat doses in the actress’ meals. Spanic was working on the set...

For the second time in history. Ecuador defeated Mexico as a visitor team with a final score of 2-1. The game took place at the Omnilife stadium, Guadalajara. The Ecuadorian team is being coached by Reinaldo Rueda at the present time,which showeda good balance in its lineup. The...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. Three more victims were confirmed at the morgue in the Transit office, meaning that the exact death toll after Perimetral accident raised up to 15 and 7 injured people. More than 20 people were run over at Perimetral’s fast route, near Bastión Popular’s 11th...

MOSCOW. Vladimir V. Putin, Russian Prime Minister, made public Russia’s ban on grain exports, it might be extended until next year because production is not certain; this decision had to be made last month due to the severe drought and heat that attacked the harvest. Government...

A spokesman from the Front 48 of the Colombian Revolutionaries Armed Forces (FARC) talked with a group of Ecuadorian journalists in a clandestine area of the border. The Colombian territory was not identified, the commander who calls himself Raul ratified that his group will not...

President Obama criticized a NASA authorization bill and proposed a plan for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Obama’s strategy was supported by signed letters of fourteen Nobel laureates. Writers of the House bill said that such project would leave underfunded...

SPINAGAR-Kashmir. Every arrival at the emergency room is bloody, it is easy to imagine the gun-toting Indian police and security forces trying to control civilians with violence. On an August day, three patients were the first ones to arrive: Habibullah Tiploo, his teenage...