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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) closed this afternoon Friday the facilities of the Popular Democratic Movement Party (MPD) in Quito, for a period of seven days. Its leader, Luis Villacis, described the measure as part of political persecution. “We are victims of...

Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa rejected strictly the military intervention and criticized the decision of the United Nations Organization (UN) which approved the air exclusion zone in that country. Since the Foreign Ministry on Saturday issued a statement which called the...

The Walt Disney Company announced that it will donate $2.5 million to the American Red Cross in support of the organization’s work in Japan. Disney will also match employee donations, up to $1 million, to the Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Fund and Save the...

According to preliminary studies by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy (INGV), the earth may have suffered a displacement of nearly 10 cm in the axis of rotation due to the devastating earthquake of 8,9 magnitude on the Richter scale produced in Japan....

The strong flooding in South Africa claimed over a 100 lives. The government declared 33 municipalities as disaster zones. The last weekend the Government informed that most of the victims were from the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The preliminary evaluations show that over 424.150...

The southwest of Pakistan was shook by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7,4 on the Richter scale. According to the comments made by Twitter users, people in Dubai to the outskirts of Delhi felt the seism. The quake struck 34 miles west of Dalbandin around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday...

Is already defined the basic salary for 2011, which increased a 10% for workers of the public and private sector. The wage increase will be of $264 and shall be effective from January 1. The government executed the raise by the Labor Ministry because the National Wages Council...

Testimonial: Mirella Gomez, 60 years old. “I came with my friends and niece because the assistance provided by the medical brigade is really good. I believe that the people who have more should help those that have little. There are people who have a good heart. My sheens were...

The National Assembly will organize several activities from today, August 5 to August 8 (Thursday) in order to conmemorate the forty years of Ecuador’s Return to Democracy. The events will have an academic and cultural nature. The government also plans to celebrate the...

Ecuadornews: The president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Diana Atamaint, revealed that the candidacy of José Tuárez, current president of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), came after the candidate challenged arguing falsification of...