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Purchase of Argentina debt becomes difficult for banks

International banks are having difficulty to reach a deal to buy part of Argentina’s sovereign debt that is held by hedge funds, which sued the country. Citi, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and JP Morgan are talking with the funds to help Argentina coming out soon from its second...
Posted On 13 Aug 2014
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Supercom will submit a draft reform on the LOC

The Superintendency of Information and Communication (Supercom) will submit next October 15 a draft reform to the Organic Communications Law (LOC for its Spanish acronym) that has 119 articles and 24 transitory provisions. The approach was made based in the the experiences of the...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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Jiménez defense requests annulment of judgment based on current COIP

The defense of former Assemblyman Cléver Jiménez, Fernando Villavicencio and his advisor Dr. Carlos Figueroa, yesterday delivered a request for the annulment of judgment and the ratification of the precautionary measures issued by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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Liberia request to USA medicine against Ebola

The President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, announced that she has requestes the United States to make available to them an experimental medication against Ebola, disease developed in that country. In a radio address, Johnson-Sirleaf said that Liberia’s access to this...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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Iran approves law that prohibits vasectomies to increase birth rate

Iran’s parliament approved new limits on contraceptive methods and forbade interventions such as vasectomies and fallopian tubes occlusion to raise the birth rate, which currently stands at 1.6 children per woman, according to the oficial agency IRNA. In May 2014, the...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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Gaza keeps ceasefire and negotiations between Israel and Hamas are retaken

The ceasefire of 72 hours that began on Sunday night has been respected by both Israel and Hamas Palestinian militias, and the calm has been witnessed on the border of the Gaza Strip. A truce that start again talks in Cairo for a permanent ceasefire. The Israeli delegation and...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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FARC Leader considers complicated that peace agreement with Colombia be signed this year

The leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Rodrigo Londoño, alias “Timoshenko” ruled out today that the guerrilla signs the peace with the Government of Colombia this year, as the president Juan Manuel Santos aspires. “Timoshenko” said...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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More than 100 prisoners flee from jail in Donetsk after bombing

Authorities yesterday reported the escape of more than 100 prisoners in a high security prison in eastern Ukraine after a bombing at prison facilities. “A shell (projectile) hit a residential area of ​​the penitentiary colony 124 in the neighborhood of Kirov” and as a...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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Paris City Council proposes `Selfies’ `instead of love locks

The Paris City Hall has decided to undertake a new initiative to end with ” love padloks,” which threaten to destroy the bridge structures where these padlocks are placed. This fashion has become viral, thousands of tourists who visit the “City of Lights”...
Posted On 12 Aug 2014
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Floral offerings commemorate 205 years of the First Independence uprising

The Mayor of Quito Mauricio Rodas and other representatives of the state functions participated this Sunday August 10 in the wreath-lying ceremony at the monument to the Heroes of 1809, this, as symbol of commemoration of the 205 years of the First Independence uprising. The...
Posted On 11 Aug 2014
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