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Labour code issued by Pinochet is reformed by Bachelet

The president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, signed on Monday a labor reform bill that modifies the labour code issued 35 years ago by Augusto Pinochet, in another of the transformative actions of her second term. The bill impedes the replacement of striking workers, enshrined in...
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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Debate over labor reforms begins today at the Assembly

For 10:30 is provided the initial debate in the National Assembly of the document that proposes reforms to the Labour Code, including the elimination of the fixed term. Another issue that generated extensive discussion at the Commission on Rights of Workers, was the affiliation...
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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AirAsia: Objects sighted do not belong to flight disappeared in Indonesia

The Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla, denied this Monday that sighted objects during the search of the missing plane AirAsia belong to the same, thus ruling out reports that an Australian surveillance apparatus would have detected some remains that could be from the flight....
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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Commission expects the resolutions of territorial disputes

The Commission of Autonomous Governments and Territorial Organization of the Assembly seeks to know the progress in the solution of border disputes at national level, four months before the expiry of the deadline. The Law on Territorial Limits setting states that local...
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Government will allocate $ 150 million to acquire 500,000 induction cookers

The Government would allocate some $ 150 million to acquire 500,000 induction cookers, that will be delivered between April and May 2015 to beneficiaries of the Human Development Bond (BDH for its Spanish acronym), in exchange for gas stoves, said the Minister of Industry Ramiro...
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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United States and NATO finalized 13 years of war in Afghanistan

The US president, Barack Obama, stressed on Sunday the “responsible” end of the combat mission of NATO in Afghanistan, but warned that the country remains “a dangerous place.” “Now, thanks to the extraordinary sacrifice of our men and women in...
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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Four bodies are recovered from ferry burnt down in Greek coast

The Greek Minister of the Sea, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, announced on Monday that four more bodies were recovered during the salvage operation of hundreds of passengers who were on the burnt ferry Norman Atlantic, raising the death toll to five. “The Italian authorities...
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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Greece: Presidential elections shall be held early

In the third and decisive parliamentary vote held today in Greece, the candidate for President of Greece, Stavros Dimas, was not elected, by which the European country shall call to early elections. The former European commissioner and several times minister, 73, won the backing...
Posted On 29 Dec 2014
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President Correa will visit China in the company of ministers and assembly members

Government officials, assembly members, dignitaries and community leaders form the official delegation of 29 people who next January will accompany President Rafael Correa on his trip to China at the invitation of the government of Xi Jinping. Executive Order 535, issued last...
Posted On 28 Dec 2014
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Air Asia Airplane for Singapore disappears with 155 passengers

The civil aviation authorities of Indonesia have lost contact this Sunday with an Airbus 320-200 of Air Asia flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 155 passengers on board, plus a crew of seven people, local media reported. The Indonesian Ministry of Transportation reported that...
Posted On 28 Dec 2014
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