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People who come to the USA on flights from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, countries affected by Ebola, should land on one of the five airports with control systems, reported the Department of Homeland Security. The restrictions come into effect from October 22 and amon...

Kinross Gold Corporation reported on October 21 that it has signed an agreement with Fortress Minerals Corp, a member of the Lundin Group of Companies, to sell its entire stake in Aurelian Resources Inc. and the Fruta del Norte (FDN) project in Ecuador for $ 240 million....

Panama’s government informed on Wednesday that it has banned the arrival of travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry, to prevent the Ebola virus enters to the country. “The Ministry of Health announced that from the date becomes effective a restriction...

The country’s labor statistics were adjusted to a new conceptual framework developed by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC for its Spanish acronym) and the National Secretariat for Planning and Development (Senplades). The new proposal classifies the...

Colombia’s government decided to take Panama from its list of tax havens, which had included it two weeks ago, after the two countries reached an understanding in which they agree to negotiate a double taxation treaty. “I was signing the decree which allowed us to get...

President Rafael Correa and the Qatar Emir, Tamin bin Hamad al-Zani, signed this Wednesday October 22 in Doha two agreements and a memorandum of economic and information cooperation, to strengthen bilateral relations. Among the agreements are: avoiding the doubl...

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) demanded the governments of Ecuador and Venezuela to respect the freedom of expression at the end of the 70th General Assembly of the organization which was held in Santiago de Chile. In the case of Ecuador, the IAPA demanded the repeal...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said this Tuesday it will begin on November 1 clinical trials in Switzerland of one of the two candidate vaccines against Ebola. The vaccine is the NIAID / GSK, developed by GlaxoSmithKline, which at the moment is already being tested on...

Hong Kong students, who are part of the pro-democracy movement, and the local government beganthis Tuesday its first session after more than three weeks of demonstrations. The meeting was attended by five representatives of the Government of Hong Kong, led by its Chief Secretary,...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization issued on October 20, an alert about an alleged use of excessive force, violations of due process and restrictions on expression freedom that would have occurred during protests of September 17 and 18 in Ecuador. In a ten-page document,...