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Syrian police launched a brutal assault Wednesday on a neighborhood that supported anti-government protesters. Officers shot down 15 civilians in an operation of 24 hours. Six demonstrators perished in the morning, during an attack on the al-Omari mosque in the southern...

Jimmy Jairala, Prefect of the Province of Guayas in Ecuador, promised to arrange with private and public entities to join the global campaign of “Earth Hour” this Saturday. This initiative has nearly a thousand followers worldwide and it consists in turning off for an...

The Japanese government has declared a state of emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station due to a failure in one of the cooling systems of a nuclear reactor, it happened after the 8.9-degree quake hit the northwest of Japan. According to industry minister, Banri...

This Tuesday, Austria and Germany froze the bank accounts of the Libyan leader Muammar al Gaddafi and his family. These sanctions were made with the approval of the European Union and the United Nations. These measures also include the freezing of the funds of high officials, and...

Este jueves, se confirmó que la Corte Constitucional decidió suspender el proceso de revocatoria de mandato en todo el país, ocho de nueve de los votos de sus vocales estuvieron a favor de la resolución. En consecuencia, queda sin efecto el trámite de las revocatorias de mandato...

La madrugada del viernes, un autobús cayó por un abismo en la vía Flavio Alfaro-El Carmen, a la altura del sector de Crespa. De las 83 personas que viajaban en el bus, 46 resultaron heridas y 37 perdieron sus vidas. Aun se desconoce las causas del accidente, sin embargo, uno de...

Atty. Alvaro Noboa sponsored a conference from the Environmental Activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Thursday. Ecuador Times transcribed Mr. Kennedy’s relevant words of the speech. “The nature is the infrastructure of our community, and that if we want to meet our...

62 years ago Guayaquil’s population registered 300,000 inhabitants. In that time 1,170 childbirths, nowdays that number has raised to 2,700 childbirths per month. People from many parts of the city and even from other provinces attend this hospital. Sometimes the maternity does...

CENTURION, South Africa. A nationwide strike for higher salaries is being held by South African civil servants unions in order to generate the necessary amount of time for members to consider government’s latest offer, said labor leaders on Monday. On the 20th day of a strike...