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This Friday the National Mining Agency (ANM), reported that at least three people died after a landslide hit an illegal gold mine in the department of Cauca, West Colombia, while another 15 remain missing with little hope of being rescued in time. “It is impossible they are...

“With deep sorrow I inform that they have found three (more) dead bodies following the disaster in Huehuetlán and now the number of deaths is seven,” said the governor of Puebla, Rafael Moreno, after a tour around that area. The last three victims, two children and a...

The Puerto Rican duo `Calle 13´ began this Friday a series of activities and presentations in Ecuador, one of them in support of a campaign to denounce the pollution of Chevron in Lago Agrio. The artists are scheduled to travel to the Aguarico 4 well, where there is a pool of...

According to the last record of the authorities, in the past three days, dozens of tornadoes have struck six states in the southern United States, destroying everything in their path and killing at least 31 and leaving hundreds injured. After Arkansas and Oklahoma were besieged...

The Coast Guard in South Korea today released a new video about the accident of Sewol vessel sunk with more than 300 dead or missing, which shows the rescue of Captain among the first evacuated after the accident. The video was shot by a guard with his mobile phone and shows how...

The spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Quito, Jeffrey Weinshenker said last Thursday to news agency Associated Press, that “on Monday, 7 April, the government of Ecuador formally requested that the Office of Security Cooperation of the Embassy, formerly known as Military...

In an interview with news agency EFE, President Rafael Correa stated that “for now I will retire in 2017.” However, he also stressed out that “he has the immense responsibility of ensuring this political project ” called the “Citizens’...

Ecuadorian school teachers will be able to access 2,200 positions for a Master´s degree, which will be offered by the universities of Barcelona, ​​Complutense of Madrid, Autonomous of Madrid and Distance Education (UNED). The first edition of application will be initiated on June...

Australian officials said on Friday that the search operation in the bottom of the Indian Ocean of Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared is about to conclude. The unmanned vehicle Bluefin-21 made ​​more than ten missions in the search area delimited by research, located on a radius...

About 200 people dead and 400 injured was the balance left by the attack on April 15 and 16 by the South Sudanese rebels in the city of Bentiu. Thus denounced today the United Nations mission, UNMISS, established in that country. The report provides that among the dead are South...