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Around 3,000 police and military, along with the government of Rio de Janeiro conducted an operation called “Strike for Peace” in the favela Rocinha (the biggest slum in the country) and the neighboring communities as Vigidal and Chacara do Ceu, becoming one of the...

  The Amazon River and Iguazu Falls were named new wonders of nature in a vote by Internet, telephone and text messages made by thousands of people. The complete list includes Halong Bay, Vietnam, Komodo, Indonesia, the island of Jeju in South Korea Table Mountain in South...

Today Turkey was shaken by an earthquake of a 5,7 magnitude that occurred 16km south of the eastern Turkish city of Van. The city was recently recovering of the seism of 7,2 that killed over 600 people. The Wednesday quake toppled buildings that were damaged by the earlier seism,...

Today a discussion with journalists from Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and Colombia, entitled ‘Latin America: murdered information’, will be held after Reporters without Borders moved to Spain. This conference, which will be held in the School of Information Sciences of...

The top leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), A.K.A. “Alfonso Cano”, died in Colombia, reported a source from the Ministry of Defense of Colombia on Saturday. No one knows neither the date nor the exact time of the death of Guillermo León Sáenz...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lost his final appeal to avoid extradition to Sweden in London today, after a legal battle of 11 months. He has sexual abuse charges against him by harassing two women in Sweden in August 2010. Assange was arrested on December 7, 2010 in London at...

Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel, publicly apologized after falsifying for years the results of his researchs. “I’ve failed as a scientist and I am ashamed” were the statements of Stapel, an expert in cognitive psychology, who invented articles he...

Early in the morning the Clinton Foundation announced that Dorothy Rodham, mother of the United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton passed away this Tuesday at the age of 92. Rodham’s death occurred a day after Clinton cancelled a scheduled journey to Britain and Turkey...

Titanic Foundationhas called for ships around the world to sound their sirens for three minutes next April 14, 2012 at 23:40, date of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the world’s most famous ship. This is a tribute to the victims who died in 1503 aboard the ship....

The tumor in the larynx of the former president of Brazil, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is in mid state development that is why doctors of the Sao Paulo hospital informed that there are “high possibilities” of being cured after starting with chemotherapy. During a press conference,...