U.S. President Donald Trump named U.S. hostage negotiator Robert O’Brien as his choice to replace John Bolton as his White House national security adviser. O’Brien, currently a presidential envoy for hostage affairs at the U.S. […]
Demonstrators who had been in favor of decriminalizing abortion in all cases of rape gathered outside the National Assembly Tuesday after the vote, some trying to tear down metal fences around the building. The Ecuadorian […]
On September 18, 1987, cesium-137 is removed from an abandoned cancer-therapy machine in Brazil. Hundreds of people were eventually poisoned by radiation from the substance. In 1985, the Goiania Institute of Radiotherapy moved to a […]
Medical groups have appealed to the government asking for urgent intervention to avert mass closures of health centers in Argentina. “The situation is catastrophic,” said Jorge Cherro, President of the Association of Private Clinics, Sanatoriums […]
The National Assembly voted “YES” to the legalization of the medicinal use of cannabis during sessions to reform Organic Comprehensive Criminal Code (COIP). During the Tuesday plenary, the production, commercialization, use, and consumption of cannabis […]
Ecuador’s National Assembly rejected the move to decriminalize abortions in the cases of rape. The law will continue to penalize women who terminate their pregnancies with up to three years in prison. “With 65 yes […]
On September 17, 1983, Vanessa Lynn Williams made history by becoming the first African-American woman in the pageant’s 63-year history to capture the Miss America title. (For the competition’s first 30 years, blacks weren’t even […]
Several groups of women and social organizations plan on vigil outside National Assembly to ask legislators for the approval of abortion after a rape. This topic is part of the agenda and it´s being analyzed […]
Names, financial information, and other important data of about 17 million people, including 6.7 million children were found by a security company vpnMentor. The data was sitting in an unsecured Amazon cloud server open to […]
Ecuador’s minister of Defense Oswaldo Jarrin confirmed that ‘elite’ units of Ecuador’s military will begin training in Israel. Jarrin made the announcement as he hailed a new era of close Israel-Ecuador relations. The cooperation will […]
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