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Experts have unequivocally identified 173 victims of Malaysia Airlines MH17 flight after collecting DNA samples from 283 people in the scene. Wim Heijnen, from the Netherlands Forensic Institute, said on Wednesday to the press in The Hague that all the DNA samples do not match to...

On the morning of August 26, the Guayas Judge of Criminal Guarantees, Fabiola García, granted freedom to Former Assemblyman of the Sociedad Patriótica Party Fernando Balda, who was serving a sentence of two years imprisonment for the offense of slanderous serious injury. His...

The entrance to the continental protected areas is no longer exclusive to the naturalists. The Ministry of Environment (MAE for its Spanish acronym) decided to allow access to national guides to certain areas of 12 protected zones in Ecuador. This seeks to promote tourism and to...

A measurement of the Research Directorate of the Ministry of Tourism reveals that between January and August 24, 2014 entered to Ecuador 1’009.665 tourists, representing an increase of 14% in relation with the same period of last year. Only in the first 24 days of this...

At least five people have died and various are missing by the torrential rains that hit on Monday, August 25 the regions of southeastern South Korea and even forced tostop a nuclear reactor, local authorities said. Heavy rains, which came to accumulate up to 130 millimeters per...

Ukraine will perform parliamentary elections on October 26 after the dissolution of Parliament on Monday by President Petro Poroshenko, accusing many MPs to support the pro-Russian rebels of the east. “I have decided to end prematurely with the authority of...

The legal situation of 17 policemen investigated for alleged insubordination on September 30, 2010, in Guayaquil, remains unresolved. On Monday, the Judge of Criminal Guarantees of Guayas, Yolanda Martinez, suspended the arraignment hearing and trial arrangement convened to issue...

From the early hours of last Monday, a small group of hooded demonstrators protested against the socialist government of Nicolas Maduro at a point northeast of San Cristobal, Tachira state (west). The youths blocked the main street of Las Pilas with bags of trash and debris, and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Petro Poroshenko, had met this Tuesday in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, jointly with the European Union and experts on addressing the armed conflict in the eastern Ukrainian regions. “We are willing to exchange views on the...

According to the National News Agency (NNA), last Monday Israel bombed areas of southern Lebanon where a rocket had been launched into its territory. Several shells landed in an area between Kfarchuba and Nabatieh from where the rocket was allegedly fired, the ANN added, noting...