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Activist Carlos Figueroa is prepared for his release next January 21, date when the sentence he is serving meets, for insulting President Rafael Correa, while the defense of the former assemblyman Cléver Jimenez and his former advisor Fernando Villavicencio, announced he will...

Rescue workers found this Wednesday the tail of the AirAsia plane at the bottom of the Java Sea, where the air transport crashed last December 28 with 162 people on board, officials said. The spokesman for the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), Bambang Soelistyo,...

The Minister of Finance, Fausto Herrera, announced the revocation of the 5% salary increase for public employees, planned for 2015, because of the fall in oil prices, and which at the same time derived in a reduction of the state budget. The measure wasapproved from Beijing, on...

At least twelve people, including two policemen, were killed and four are in critical condition after an attack with assault rifles and rocket launchers against the headquarters of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in Paris. According to local witnesses, two armed men...

The Mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot, clarified on January 6 that the city will not suffer due to the drop in international oil prices. The reason, according to him, there is sufficient liquidity and a healthy economy in the Municipality. Nebot highlighted the austere city...

The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, on Monday called on the country’s second largest guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN), to unilaterally cease hostilities, as the FARC did in late December. “We invite the ELN to join the initiative of an...

The wife of the former mayor of Iguala Jose Luis Abarca, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, was sent to prison for her alleged role as intellectual author, along with her husband, in the disappearance of the 43 students of Ayotzinapa. A federal judge based in the Tamaulipas state...

Indigenous members protested against the Minister for Economic and Social Inclusion, Betty Tola, during the spiritual cleansing they made at building of the Ministry, which they said, is full of negative energy. Amid shouts like “traitor”, “sold” and...

A court suspended on Monday a judgment against the former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, who ruled Guatemala from 1982 to 1983 and had arrived on a stretcher to a court to face the new trial for the genocide of indigenous Mayans. The President of the Court of Higher Risk B, in...

The new pro-Russian rebels denounced violations by the troops of Kiev in terms of agreed truce last December 9 in eastern Ukraine revolted. “Ukrainian military violated the ceasefire 46 times (in the past 24 hours, counted from Sunday to Monday morning). There are four...