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During last Sunday evening a strong quake shook Sikkim with a magnitude of 6,8 on the Richter Scale. The death toll has reached 54 casualties, 42 in India, five in Nepal and seven in Tibet, the seism left a total of a 100 injured. Afterwards several strong tremors were felt in...

This Monday several officials from the United Nations (UN) and the Gulf Cooperation Council met in Sanaa, Yemen. Their purpose was to organize a peaceful transfer of power because of the growing reports of violence in the streets. The medical staff in Change Square informed that...

Today seven Italian scientists were charged with involuntary homicide because they overestimated the risks of the earthquake that struck the city L’Aquila on April of 2009. Among the accused are the members of the Commission “Great Risks” who met last March 31 of 2009 to comment...

Five years ago the Inter-American Development Bank asked Fundacion Hogar de Cristo (Christ’s Home Foundation) the creation of a project to support social and financial services. Brother Roberto Costa was the main responsible for handling the task. Afterwards Jaime Jaramillo...

The Angolan Leila Lopes was crowned Miss Universe 2011 yesterday, in the last part of the contest held in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Miss Universe gathered candidates from 89 different countries of the five continents. Lopes, 25, is the successor to the Mexican Ximena...

“Please do not send me somewhere else. If something happens we will be here with you,” these were the words of Jacqueline Kennedy to her husband John F. ex U.S. Kennedy to ask him not to send her away from the White House during the Cuban missile crisis that...

The british pop artist Richard Hamilton, best known by his 1956 collage featuring a body builder and a tin of ham, died at the age of 89 of a short illness. “The art world has lost one of its leading lights,” said the Gagosian Gallery. Days before he died, Hamilton was working on...

This morning the citizens of Guayaquil city gathered at the San Francisco square to affiliate and re affiliate into the political party PRIAN, led by Alvaro Noboa. Vicente Taiano, the current managing director and assemblyman of PRIAN was present in this meeting to motivate the...

La isla trinitaria, Bastión popular Voluntad de Dios y Unión y Progreso are some of the poorest areas of Guayaquil that receive help from Misión Alianza, a nonprofit organization from Norway that aims to improve the lives of the people who need it the most.Misión Alianza was...

The South African Paralympics athlete, Oscar Pistorius won the silver medal this Friday, however Pistorius was replaced in the 4×400 meter race of his country. Despite not running the final, because he had participated in the series semifinals, he received the award....