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The Government of Ukraine and the pro-Russian separatists in east of the country on Wednesday resumed peace talks in Minsk, Belarus capital, which lasted more than five hours. The meeting was attended by Ukrainian speakers, rebels, representatives of the Organization for Security...

The headquarters of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE for its Spanish acronym) was declared this December 23 as the heritage of indigenous peoples and nationalities. This was the main resolution adopted by the emergency assembly of CONAIE that...

The Police announced this Wednesday the killing of an African-American teenager in a city near Ferguson, Missouri, where in previous months, another unarmed young Afro-man was also killed, generating protests and racial tension across the US. The Police of the Saint Louis County...

The Army and the Federal Police of Mexico will assume full control of various areas of the southwestern state of Michoacán, replacing the Rural Force corporation, created to legalize the civil defense groups, an official source reported today. The federal commissioner for...

The Organic Law on Rural Land will be processed in 2015 at the National Assembly. The report for the first debate of this legislation (of 113 articles, five general provisions, eight transitional and five derogations) is ready at the Commission on Food Sovereignty, incharge of...

The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, announced that in “the coming days” will install “greater State for the recovery of the economy” as part of the measures to be taken by the Executive to stabilize the economy in Venezuela for 2015. “Before...

President Rafael Correa in his last working day of 2014 celebrated on December 23 with children from Guayaquil and Duran,assisted by the Ministry of Economic and Social Inclusion. Correa arrived to the Parque Lago (km 26 on the way to the coast) and had breakfast with the...

Pro-democracy protesters returned to take the streets of Hong Kong this Wednesday on the occasion of Christmas Eve, to ask for a “true universal suffrage” in the first mass demonstration since the last camp was evacuated last week. One hundred protesters walked to the...

The prefect of Guayas, Jimmy Jairala, who sued the director of the Creando Oportunidades political movement (CREO), Cesar Monge, failed to appear at the first of 17 hearings to be conducted in a similar number of criminal charges by defamatory libel. The hearing, which took place...

According to the Ministry of Tourism, about 1.5 million foreigners, mainly Colombians, Americans and Peruvians, visited Ecuador in 2014, registering a new record, as stated. The provision of 1.5 million foreign tourists was surpassed on Monday, until the accounting of 241 other...