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CELAC concerned about Cuba’s inclusion on list of terrorist countries

The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) expressed its concern about the inclusion of Cuba on the U.S. list of sponsor states of terrorism, and urged the U.S. government to stop developing such `unilateral´ reports. In a statement published on Thursday in an...
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Block 43 will be explored and exploited by Petroamazonas

After the Coordinator Ministry of Strategic Sectors, Ministry of Non-Renewable Natural Resources, the Environment Ministry, and the Secretariat of Hydrocarbons, presented a report to the Biodiversity Committee of the Assembly, it was established that the block 43 of the Yasuni...
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President of shipping company that operated the Sewol vessel was arrested

The South Korean authorities have arrested this Thursday on charges of homicide, the president of the shipping company which operated the Sewol vessel, sunk in mid-April with more than 300 dead and missing. A joint team of prosecutors and the police arrested at his home in...
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95% of Venezuelans hospitals have 5% of supplies

According to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Venezuela’s central bank reported that the lack of medicines arrived in March, to a worrying 50%, while private estimates calculated that 95% of hospitals have only 5% of supplies. Due to the critical situation, protests...
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Mexico is shaken by 6.7 earthquake

Mexico suffered an earthquake of 6.7 magnitude on the Richter scale that was felt in most of the country, as confirmed by the National Seismological Service on their website. The U.S. Geological Service said that the quake had its epicenter in front of the Pacific coast, in the...
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Another minor killed in Honduras

This Thursday authorities reported a ninth murder of a minor that follows a series of killings that has included children from age two to 17 and has caused commotion in Honduras, a country attributed with the highest homicide rate in the world (79 per 100 thousand inhabitants),...
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Four death by yesterday´s torrential rain in Guayaquil

Two adults electrocuted in the Nueva Prosperina Sector and two children drowned in block 1 of El Fortín, were the victims of the surprising lightning storm that fell yesterday in Guayaquil, said last night the Governor of Guayas, Rolando Panchana.   The Venegas Matamoros family...
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The United States close anti-narcotics office in Quito

In the appeareance in court before the Subcommittee for Abroad Operations in the Lower Chamber, the Undersecretary of State for the fight against International Drug Trafficking, William R. Brownfield, announced that the Anti-Narcotis Office of Ecuador will be closed i...
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Elected officials are trained on the Cootad

With the aim of empowering the elected authorities, both political organizations, such as the National Electoral Council (CNE) and the Council of citizen participation (CPC) carry out training workshops on the content of the organic code of Territorial Organization, Autonomy and...
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Union groups exposed labor concerns

In the roundtable discussion organized by the Commission of Worker Rights of the Assembly in Milagro, Guayas province, to gather criteria relating from labor groups about the draft Code of Labour Relations, different sectors presented their positions on the monthly allocation of...
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