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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published its updated list of deficient countries in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, in which Ecuador is maintained with Algeria, Indonesia and Myanmar. The FATF, which requested its members and other...

The Vice Presidents of Ecuador and Colombia, Jorge Glas and Germán Vargasse, respectively, met on October 24 to discuss the Ecuadorian development of policies, especially in roads, energy and social housing infrastructure. According to information from the Ecuadorian Vice...

Two people died on October 24, including a student that would be the alleged gunman, and four others were wounded in a shootout in a junior high school in Washington state, United States. Robert Lamoureux, member of the police, said that the man shot several times in the...

Fifteen civilians and retired military officers were sentenced on this Friday October 24 to life imprisonment for violations of human rights committed in a clandestine detention center in Argentina’s last dictatorship (1976-1983), the court informed. The accused were tried...

The European Union (EU) will take their aid pledges to combat Ebola epidemic in West Africa at 1,000 million euros, announced this Friday the president of the Council, Herman Van Rompuy, during a summit of heads of government in Brussels. Because of the speed with which the virus...

The Russian president has accused the United States of destabilizing the world with its policy of domain and warned that its intention to create a global scheme according to their interests increases the risk of conflicts between the great powers. In a lecture before political...

President Rafael Correa partially objected the draft Reformatory Law to the Social Security Law and the Law of the Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security for the administration of closed complementary pension funds. According to a document dated October 16 and sent...

The Israeli government said yesterday that it will respond with force to any attack in Jerusalem, where security forces strengthened their presence the day after a Palestinian threw his car against a tram stop and killed a baby girl. The attack, described as...

Ecuadorian indigenous submitted on Thursday, October 23 a complaint before the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Chevron, sentenced in Ecuador for environmental damage in the Amazon region, said theirLawyer in Quito. Amazonian communities intended...

Concerning the nonattendance of the head of the National Communications Secretariat (Secom), Fernando Alvarado, at the hearing convened by the Prosecution to submit his version in the McSquared case inquiry, the Secom explained that “without a prior exam of the Comptroller...