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Correa: Total petroleum income for the state budget is 18.57%

President Correa said that the gross income from petroleum uses amounts to 16,960 million, however only 18.57% of total oil income comes to General Budget. According to the president, 34% of income is consumed in the production process itself intended for oil product imports and...
Posted On 09 Nov 2014
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Germany celebrates 25 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall

Germany celebrates in 2014 the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a wall that separated the city into two sectors from 13 August 1961 until 9 November 1989. Chancellor Angela Merkel has opened a new permanent exhibition in memory of the Wall that divided Germany and...
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BCE reported growth of 3.5% in the Ecuadorian economy

The Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE) said in a statement that the Ecuadorian economy grew 3.5% in the second quarter of this year compared to the same period in 2013. The growth is mainly by the performance of non-oil sector, which contributed 2.85 percentage points, confirming that...
Posted On 09 Nov 2014
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Catalonia complies with symbolic vote for independence

Catalonia complies this Sunday with a symbolic vote for independence from Spain in a query without any legal value, after the Spanish Constitutional Court decreed its suspension. More than 1.1 million people, of 5.4 calls to participate in the consultation day have deposited...
Posted On 09 Nov 2014
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Two Americans citizens detained in North Korea are liberated

The State Department of the United States announced on Saturday the release of two of its citizens who were detained in North Korea on a secret mission led by his intelligence chief, James Clapper. “The State Department welcomed the release of American citizens Kenneth Bae...
Posted On 08 Nov 2014
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Ecuadorian Government will continue without sending delegates to the IACHR hearings

Attorney Diego Garcia reiterated that the government will not send delegates to hearings by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), while that body don’t “correct” their habit of “thematic hearings convene to address specific cases.”...
Posted On 08 Nov 2014
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Mexican Attorney reports that the 43 kidnapped students are dead

Mexico’s general attorney reported this Friday that the alleged drug hitmen arrested have stated that the 43 missing Mexican students are dead and their corpses were burned. According to new testimony from detainees, hostages were taken that night in vehicles to a dumpster...
Posted On 08 Nov 2014
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Correa: Ecuador is ready for the fall of oil prices

President Rafael Correa said yesterday that his government is ready for the fall in the international price of oil, the main source of export of Ecuador. “We are prepared to face this situation,” the president told reporters in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where it comply...
Posted On 08 Nov 2014
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Ex-Navy Seal who shot Osama Bin Laden receives threats from jihadists

The former combatant of the Navy SEAL, elite troop of the US Navy, Robert O’Neill, 38, who worked under absolute secrecy, was threatened of death by jihadists after publicly revealing that he was who executed the leader of Al Qaeda Osama bin Laden. O’Neill told the...
Posted On 08 Nov 2014
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European ministers plans to strengthen border controls to the jihadists

Interior ministers of France, Germany, Italy, UK, Poland and Spain plans to strengthen immigration controls for potential jihadist fighters circulating on the borders of these countries. The draft security treated in Paris on Thursday by the six major European countries is known...
Posted On 07 Nov 2014
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