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Colombia’s Constitutional Court denied on Wednesday the possibility that same-sex couples can adopt, but retained the option to do it when the child is the biological child of one of the two implied. “The same-sex couples can only adopt when the request rests to the...

President Rafael Correa, through Executive Decree 585, appointed the replacement for Francisco Rivadeneira, former Minister of Foreign Trade. Diego Aulestia Valencia will be responsible for taking that position, while Maria de los Ángeles Duarte will be the new Minister for Urban...

Pope Francis vowed this Wednesday to do everything in his power to assist in the clarification of the bombing of a Jewish venue in Buenos Aires in 1994, in which 85 people died. “From me expect everything, that I do everything possible,” the pontiff told a group of...

Snow and wind storms have strongly affected the northeastern of the United States, prompting the government to close all its offices in Washington, like most schools and public transport. It has also affected several southern states with frost and snowfall. These storms have...

Chinese people say goodbye this February 18 to the lunar year of the horse and welcome the goat one in a celebration that, despite its familiar character, also fills the streets of people, as well as parades, fairs and stage shows. The Spring Festival -as the lunar New Year is...

The tanker Cotopaxi, owned by the Ecuadorian Oil Fleet (Flopec) and with capacity of 66 138 tons of cargo was detained in Panama by court order between 7 and 10 February this year. The oil transport called this arrest as a “seizure.” Via email, Flopec reported that a...

The Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez meets this Wednesday one year in prison for crimes related to the protests last year that left a toll of destruction at the headquarters of the Prosecutor´s office, three dead and dozens injured. For this reason, his wife Lilian...

After the first five years of existence of the Council for Citizen Participation (CPC for its Spanish acronym), this February 18 begins the process to renovate 14 primary and alternate members of the National Electoral Council (CNE). This process will take about one hundred days...

The mobile operators Otecel (Movistar) and Conecel (Claro) expect to sign today with the Ecuadorian government contracts to provide the 4G technology, said the vice presidency through a statement. On February 2, both private enterprises closed negotiations with the government for...

The Security Council of the UN supported in a resolution yesterday the peace agreements reached in Minsk for Ukraine and urged all parties to implement them in full. The resolution, sponsored by Russia, was approved with the support of 15 members of the highest decision making...