JAPAN
Typhoon Faxai hits Japan
Typhoon Faxai slammed ashore near the city of Chiba in Japan shortly before dawn, bringing with it wind gusts of 207 km, the strongest ever recorded in Chiba, national broadcaster NHK said. A woman in […]
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ECUADOR
More than 60 women have died in Ecuador so far this year
Ecuador has the third-highest gender violence record after Mexico and Brazil. 68 women have died from Jan. 1 to Aug. 8 at the hands of male aggressors according to Alianza Mapeo. The report shows that […]
ON THIS DAY
Mao Zedong dies at 82
Mao Zedong, one of the most significant communist figures of the Cold War, led the Chinese people through a long revolution and then ruled the nation’s communist government from its establishment in 1949. Mao believed […]
COLOMBIA
Amazon Basin leaders meet to tackle forest fires
Several leaders of South American nations will meet in Colombia to participate in an emergency summit on the preservation of the Amazon. The presidents invited to the southern city of Leticia include Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno, […]
NATURAL DISASTERS
Hurricane Dorian hits U.S. east coast
Hurricane Dorian made landfall in North Carolina on Friday morning, hitting the beach resort area with powerful winds and battering waves. It is advancing slowly northward like a “Category 1” storm. The National Hurricane Center […]
ECUADOR
Correa: “Martinez’s alleged notebook is the greatest procedural fraud”
Former President Rafael Correa said that Pamela Martínez’s notebook, where the alleged irregular contributions to Alianza PAIS would be evidenced, is the “greatest procedural fraud that recalls history.” “It was written by her in jail […]
ON THIS DAY
Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales
Britain and the world have said farewell to Diana, Princess of Wales, at the end of an unprecedented week of mourning. A four-mile procession brought her coffin to Westminster Abbey, where politicians and celebrities joined […]
COLOMBIA
Uribe paid half a million dollars for favorable testimony
It has been revealed that Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe paid huge sums to a witness in exchange for favorable testimony in court. The Colombian newspaper El Tiempo confirmed the validity of claims made by […]
BRAZIL
Protests in Brazil against Bolsonaro’s policies
On September 5th, also known as Amazon’s Day, social and environmental movements, professors, and students will hold protests in several Brazilian cities in rejection of President Jair Bolsonaro’s policies which encourage the conversion of the […]
ECUADOR
Ecuadorian Indigenous: “Our lives depend on the Amazon”
Representatives of Ecuador’s Indigenous peoples staged on Wednesday a sit-in before the National Assembly’s building in Quito, demanding the government of President Lenin Moreno to enforce local and international legislation protecting their rights and the […]