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USAID presented its achievements previous to their departure from Ecuador

The results of an environmental project that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) implemented in the country for five years, and ended as part of its next withdrawal from Ecuador in late September, were presented yesterday. USAID officials, as its Director,...
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Ex-seers will appeal their sentence

Paul Chambers and Gerardo Portilla, former seers of the contracts between the state and companies allegedly linked to the brother of the president, revealed that they will challenge the sentence of one year in prison for perjury, delivered last Friday at the adjudication hearing...
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Wife of the late Mayor of Muisne spoke of a “corruption web” in the Municipality

Italia Jijón, alternating Assemblywoman of Alianza PAÍS (AP), and wife of the deceased Mayor of Muisne, Walquer Vera, yesterday reiterated what her husband said last Thursday in a radio interview: that he received death threats after he won the election . Furthermore, Jijón said...
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Zack Snyder reveals Ben Affleck’s “Batman vs. Superman” Costume and Batmobile

This Tuesday Batman vs. Superman Director Zack Snyder revealed the very first look at Batman’s new Batmobile, as well as the very first official image of Ben Affleck’s costume as an older and bulkier Batman.
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U.S. sends spy planes to find the kidnapped girls in Nigeria

According to news agency AFP, this Tuesday several U.S. spy planes flew above northern Nigeria to help find the more than 200 teenagers abducted in mid-April by the Nigerian Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. “We have shared commercial satellite imagery with Nigerians and...
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Dialogues between Venezuela’s government and opposition are suspended

The Venezuelan opposition suspended the technical meetings of the dialogue process that were scheduled to be held with government representatives. The measure was taken as a rejection of the recent actions from the authorities against a march of university students and by the...
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The CNE raises potential solutions after the death of Muisne´s Mayor

The National Electoral Council (CNE) yesterday began the first meetings to find a solution to the legal vacuum that followed the death of the elected Mayor of Muisne, Walquer Vera, from the political movement Alianza PAÍS (AP).  The Counselor Juan Pablo Pozo, who noted that this...
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Russia plans to renounce the use of the International Space Station in 2020

Dmitri Rogozin, Russia’s deputy prime minister, today announced that the country has no intention of extend the use of the International Space Station (ISS) after 2020 as proposed the United States. “Currently we only need the ISS to 2020. After 2020 we would like to...
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Syrian Government is accused of using chemical weapons

According to a statement by Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued this Tuesday in Beirut, on last April the Syrian military bombed three cities in Syria with barrels of chlorine. “The evidence suggests quite clearly that the Syrian government helicopters dropped barrels of...
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Parts of induction cookers will not pay tariffs

Parts of imported induction cookers will pay zero tariffs. This measure is only for the assembly plants that are registered in the Ministry of Industry and Productivity (MIPRO). This group of companies are supporting the change from using gas to consume electricity for food...
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