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Petroamazonas plans to start the coming days pre-exploitation works at Ishpingo Tambococha and Tiputini (ITT) after having achieved three months ago the environmental license for the development of the oil area. The construction works of Port Miranda include the building of a...

Pope Francisco criticized clerics who live ostentatiously and prayed for the unborn at the third day of his visit to South Korea, which began with a crowded Mass in Seoul. The pontiff criticized the “hypocrisy of the dedicated men and women who profess vows of poverty, and...

The new round of indirect talks between Israelis and Palestinians, with Egyptian mediation, will be held today and tomorrow in Cairo, said the head of the delegation of Palestinian factions to Ahmed Azam. Azam assured last night, in statements to reporters that at previous...

The Puerto Rican singer Marc Anthony last Thursday put the foundation stone of an orphanage for 200 children that he will build with support from private companies in the Colombian city of Barranquilla, as part of an initiative called ‘A temporary home’. “Thanks...

The Chilean German Garmendia -famed for the stand-up comedy every week that goes to his channel of the social network YouTube- received the Icon Digital year award at the MTV Millennial Awards, granted this month by the television network. These awards, which recognize the best...

Managers of pension funds will meet with President Rafael Correa at the Palace of Carondelet, next Monday, at 10:00. This was reported by Juan José Castelló, president of the Unemployment Fund for Teachers (FCME), at a press conference jointly with the administrators of four...

President Rafael Correa held yesterday a visit to Delsitanisagua hydropower project, located in the parish Sabanilla province of Zamora Chinchipe which have an advance of 35% in its construction so far. “This is the most environmentally friendly we are doing, science and...

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, said Friday he will travel to London with occasion of the second anniversary of the asylum that the Ecuadorian government granted on August 16, 2012 to WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange Australian, held at the Embassy of Ecuador in the British...

The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped about 100 young people between 15 and 30 years in some fishing communities in northeastern Nigeria and took them on boats that crossed Lake Chad, witnesses reported yesterday. Witnesses who escaped the violence told that militants...

The general secretary of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, today confirmed media reports that claim that Russian military vehicles have crossed the border with Ukraine. “Last night we saw a Russian incursion,a crossing from the Ukrainian border,” Rasmussen said, adding...