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USA Asks for Wikileaks’ Information to Twitter

The U.S. government has asked Twitter to hand over private messages sent to and from Julian Assange and other users whohave links with WikilLeaks. A court of the State of Virginia has asked the Social network to turn over: user names, email addresses, details of connections,...
Posted On 08 Jan 2011
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Brazil Floods Leaves 35 Dead

Authorities said that the constant rains of the last week has flooded creeks and created landslides in the southeastern Brazil. The nature assault has claimed the lives of 35 people so far. Meanwhile 30 thousand victims have been evacuated due to the heavy floods. Civil defense...
Posted On 08 Jan 2011
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Militaries Face Complaints from Evicted

The military presence intensifies in the invaded lands on the Northwest area of Guayaquil. Over 700 soldiers protect the land and participate in the eviction that has been taking place for two straight days. Residents from a sector known as Ciudad de Dios, which has a size of...
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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Today New Taxes will Be Defined in 4 sectors

Today, the Cabinet will discuss in Baeza, Napo province, the proposal of President Correa: Reinstate the Special Consumption Tax (SCT) to alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and, cellular calls; as well as the VAT increase on medicines. The director of the Internal Revenue Service...
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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Are DVD’s days over?

On Thursday the largest international exhibition of electronics, Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Piracy and the variety of movies that the World Wide Web provides via streaming, is a subject that concerns many Hollywood studios, so th...
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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Former Clinton aide is in the White House to help Obama

President Barack Obama has chosen Gene Sperling as the new director for the National Economic Council (NEC). Sperling is not new in this position, he held his position between late 1996 and 2000 during Bill Clinton’s second term. In addition, according to Reuters reports...
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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Flood in South Africa Leaves 50 dead and homeless

A heavy flooding has left over 50 people dead and hundreds without home in South Africa Eastern Cape Province. The residents still struggle the adverse weather conditions that have assailed the country since December. Dozens of people were killed by the collapsed homes and...
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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Soccer Congress Began at the FEF Facilities

The board of the Federación Ecuatoriana de Futbol (FEF) began with its ordinary session to analyze the new norms for the regulations of the Ecuadorian national championship of 2011. The tournament system will be the same that was used on 2010. This is one of the subjects to be...
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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Assange Publishes his Memoirs About Wikileaks

In April, the memories of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, will be on bookstores’ shelves in Spain and Latin America, reported Random House Mondadori, publisher of the book, which also acquired the rights to the book in Spanish. “I hope this book will become one of the...
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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Tutankhamun Tomb Will be Closed

Zahi Hawass, head of the antiquities of Egypt, announced yesterday that the Tutankhamun tomb, the most visited in the Valley of Kings, the great pharaonic necropolis of ancient Thebes (modern Luxor), would be shut down to prevent the damage that tourism has caused to the grave....
Posted On 07 Jan 2011
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