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Pakistan denounces as “blasphemous” new caricature of Charlie Hebdo

Pakistani parliamentarians unanimously denounced on Thursday the publication of a new “blasphemous” caricature of Muhammad on the cover of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, victim of a Islamist attack last week that left 12 dead. “The assembly...
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Republicans vote against immigration law proposed by Obama

Republican members of the House of Representatives voted against the immigration law of President Barack Obama, proposed in November, Fox News reported. With 218 votes in favor and 209 against, the Republicans managed to pass another amendment that slows the Obama plan, known as...
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Capriles announces mobilizations in Venezuela before crises and shortages of commodities

The Venezuelan opposition is preparing a series of demonstrations across the country to press the government to take steps to overcome the crisis and to boost the change of the socialist model, announced on Wednesday the leader Henrique Capriles. “We are coming to an...
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Pope Francis: Freedom of expression is a right “but there are limits”

Pope Francis said on Thursday that freedom of speech has its limits and it can not provoke or offend religion. “You can not offend or make war, or murder in the name of religion or in the name of God,” the Pontiff told reporters aboard the plane that took him from to...
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Charlie Hebdo attacks were the responsibility of Al-Qaeda in Yemen

Al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed this Wednesday the responsibility for the attack of last week in Paris against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, in a video posted on the internet. “Some heroes have been recruited and have acted,” said in the video Naser Ben Ali al...
Posted On 14 Jan 2015
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Former chief of the Armed Forces reveals situations about the 30-S

The former head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, General Ernesto González, said on January 13 that it was President Rafael Correa himself who ordered his rescue from the hospital of the National Police, on September30, 2010 (30-S), day of the police uprising. These...
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Charlie Hebdo’s copies with Muhammad on the cover are sold out in France

The new issue of Charlie Hebdo with Muhammad on the cover, condemned by some Muslim authorities, was sold out this Wednesday in the French newstands, a week after the attack that was claimed by al Qaeda in Yemen. Survivors from the editirial staff of the satirical weekly...
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Ukraine: Impact of missile destroys bus, killing 11 civilians

Eleven civilians were killed on Tuesday in the pro-Russian separatist eastern Ukraine, when their bus was hit by a missile at a checkpoint of the Ukrainian army, being this the bloodiest attack since the establishment of the truce on December 9. The attack occurred near the town...
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Safeguard measures are applied despite warning from the CAN

The exchange safeguard measures to imports that arrive from Colombia and Peru are enforced from the January 5, despite the warnings of the Andean Community (CAN). The CAN alerted the day after the announcement of the Ecuadorian government, that “the application of safeguard...
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Foreign Minister Patiño highlighted the importance of the Pacific in economic terms

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño, considered on January 13 that the Pacific zone will be the “most important of the world” in economic and trade terms the next decade. The Pacific, understood and constructed as the area of contact and commo...
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