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Brazilian Federal Police capture alleged Colombian drug trafficker

The Brazilian Federal Police (PF) captured this Wednesday in the city of Boa Vista, capital of the northern and Amazonian state of Roraima, the alleged Colombian drug trafficker “Marquitos Figueroa,” according to authorities. Marcos de Jesús Figueroa, alias...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Protests and clashes resume in Hong Kong after failure in dialogue

Protests and clashes between supporters and opponents of the pro-democracy movement resumed yesterday in Hong Kong. The incident came a day after the first meeting between students and the government, which did not manage to bring positions to end a 25-day conflict. The incidents...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Cuban doctors arrive to African countries to combat the Ebola virus

Cuba has sent a new medical equipment integrated by 165 sanitary, to combat the Ebola virus in African countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry, where more than 4,500 people have already died because of the epidemic. The head of the medical team Jorge Juan Delgado...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Francis Pope calls on Catholics to condemn the death penalty

Pope Francis lashed out this Thursday against “extrajudicial executions by some states” and called on Catholics to fight against “all forms” of capital punishment, “both legal and illegal,” which are applied in the world. “All Christians...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Three shootings alert authorities of Canada

Canadian authorities launched an operation to capture the gunmen responsible for three shootings in the capital, Ottawa, one of them close to the Parliament, and another at the Monument to the Fallen in the First World War. Local police stations and military bases around the...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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WHO establishes that the ebola spread will continue “intense”

The transmission is still “intense” in the capital of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and there are unreported cases, said on October 22, the World Health Organization (WHO), adding that 443 health workers have been infected with the virus and 244 have died. It...
Posted On 23 Oct 2014
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Colombia takes Panama out of its list of tax havens

Colombia’s government decided to take Panama from its list of tax havens, which had included it two weeks ago, after the two countries reached an understanding in which they agree to negotiate a double taxation treaty. “I was signing the decree which allowed us to get...
Posted On 22 Oct 2014
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Gulf Cartel leader was arrested in USA

On Tuesday, American officials said that the leader of the Gulf Cartel, Mexican Juan Francisco Sáenz-Tamez, was arrested in southern Texas. Sáenz-Tamez, 23, was arrested on last Oct. 9 while doing shopping in Edinburg, Texas, just north of the border between Mexico and the United...
Posted On 22 Oct 2014
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USA controls Ebola from its airports

People who come to the USA on flights from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, countries affected by Ebola, should land on one of the five airports with control systems, reported the Department of Homeland Security. The restrictions come into effect from October 22 and amon...
Posted On 22 Oct 2014
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African tourists may not enter to Panama to prevent cases of Ebola

Panama’s government informed on Wednesday that it has banned the arrival of travelers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Conakry, to prevent the Ebola virus enters to the country. “The Ministry of Health announced that from the date becomes effective a restriction...
Posted On 22 Oct 2014
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