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Defenders of animal rights and pets marched from El Ejido park in Quito to the National Assembly to deliver the draft Organic Law on Animal Welfare (LOBA for its Spanish acronym), supported by the ruling party Assemblymembers Soledad Buendía, Marcela Aguiñaga and Rosana Alvarado....

The Virgin Galactic space ship SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight in the Mojave (California), the California Highway Patrol reported. One person was killed and another seriously injured after the accident this Friday as reported by CNN. “During the test, the vehicle...

Chile initiated the cultivation of the first seeds of marijuana for medical use, officially approved in a municipal land, an unprecedented initiative in this area in Latin America. The seeding began on Wednesday October 29 with the germination of cannabis seeds that will later be...

Health authorities of 34 American countries, yesterday, October 30, approved “lines of action” against Ebola, when closing a two-day workshop in Cuba. Delegates from all American countries recommended “establishing the epidemiological surveillance” to...

The FARC yesterday acknowledged the harm caused to civilians and to the Colombian army by the existing armed conflict since 50 years. “We explicitly recognize that our actions have affected civilians in different times and circumstances throughout of the (armed)...

Members of the Constitutional Court (CC) began on October 30 the discussion of the draft amendments to the Constitution, based on the draftopinion of Judge Wendy Molina. Molina, rapporteur of the case No. CR-0001-14, made a 150-page report, confirmed her colleague Alfredo Ruiz,...

During the afternoon of Wednesday October 29, the Board of the National Criminal Court notified to the defenders ofthe Filanbancoformer owners William and Roberto Isaias Dassum, that the appeal they presented was denied. The decision was made by the judges Gladys Teran, Lucy...

Ministers of Ukrainian and Russian Energy and the heads of the European Union (EU) reached last night in Brussels an agreement for the supply of gas to Ukraine until March with a guaranteed price and the payment of its debt to Gazprom. The agreement, for a total of 4,600 million,...

The Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy announced on Friday the challenge to the consultation convened by the regional government of Catalonia on November 9 as an alternative to the independence referendum, vetoed by the Constitutional Court. “We have agreed raising a...

The United States through a statement on Wednesday showed “appalled” by reports, according to which, the Syrian government launched bombs on a refugees camp in the Idlib province (northwest). “We are appalled at the information about the attack and the images of...