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Since this year, 84 hospital units of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) face deficits in medicine. Iván Espinel, provincial Director of IESS in Guayas, recognizes that there is a deficit of 10% in the stock of antiretroviral and cancer drugs. He ensures, however,...

The police in Sao Paulo dispersed protesters supporting the subway strike in Brazil this Monday with tear gas in another day of chaotic traffic, barely lacking three days of that this city received the inauguration World Cup. Around 25 police fired tear gas and sound bombs...

The President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said on Sunday that the fighting in the east of the country must cease at the end of next week. “We must end the fighting this week,” Poroshenko said in a statement posted on its official website after a round of talks with...

Ecuadorian entrepreneurs expect that Ecuador sign a trade agreement with the European Union (EU) in the Third Round of Negotiations of a Multiparty Trade Agreement. The event will run from today to Friday 13 June in Brussels (Belgium). Europe is a major comercial destination....

Fighting between the army and rebels have left so far this year nearly half a million displaced civilians in Iraq, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). According to Adrian Edwards, UNHCR spokesman, “the number of displaced could be higher”,...

The road “Ruta Viva” to the Airport will be ready in six months: December. The infrastructure is built, It has six lanes, three in each way, but lack level the road, asphalting and lighting. On Ruta Viva, the first phase of 5.5 kilometers is enabled since December...

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad announced a general amnesty on Monday, by presidential decree, which will cover the crimes committed by the Syrian rebels and even foreign fighters, until June 9, 2014. Syrian state television, quoting the Minister of Justice, assured that the...

Last Sunday the Colombian candidate-president Juan Manuel Santos and his rival Oscar Ivan Zuluaga disputed the last votes in the closure of the campaign for the presidential elections to be held next Sunday. Both culminated in Tunja, Boyacá department capital, a major...

The State Attorney General, Galo Chiriboga, confirmed this morning on his Twitter account, the arrest of former Assemblyman Galo Lara by units of the National Police of Panama in the province of Veraguas, at the request of Ecuador’s justice, according to Jose Nelson Brandao,...

On Thursday in a court in the capital of Vermont, Montpelier, Attorney General William Sorrell, sued two dozen U.S. companies, including Chevron Corp for polluting groundwater with a gasoline additive. According to Sorrel, the refineries promoted, distributed and marketed...