Santiago, May 26 (EFE).- The president of Chile inaugurated Friday the works for the world’s largest optical and infrared telescope, to be located at the Paranal Observatory in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta. “Here in the Atacama Desert, one of the most symbolic places of the nation – and the driest place in the …
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Cancún (México), 26 may (EFE).- Los niños son uno de los grupos más afectados por desastres y donde se les apoya para reintegrarse a sus actividades regulares lo antes posible las sociedades tienen mayores oportunidades de recuperación, dijo hoy Jacobo Ocharan, responsable de Proyección de Riesgos de Plan Internacional. “Creemos que es fundamental que los …
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Washington, May 25 (EFE).- The FBI is now investigating Jared Kushner, President’s Donald Trump’s son-in-law, in the probe delving into the presumed links between the magnate’s presidential campaign and Kremlin, according to US media reports on Thursday. Kushner met during the campaign and the transition period with Russia’s ambassador to Washington, Sergei Kislyak, and with …
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Los Angeles, May 25 (EFE).- As a boy, he played with a toy boat his father made from a cardboard box and now Spaniard Raul Polit-Casillas has created for NASA a metallic fabric that can be made in space with 3D printers and used to make spacesuits and parts of spaceships. The manufacture of metals …
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Washington, May 25 (EFE).- Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday condemned the actions of his party’s candidate for Montana’s lower house seat, Greg Gianforte, for allegedly attacking a reporter working for The Guardian newspaper. “There is no time where a physical altercation should occur,” Ryan said at his weekly press conference. “It should not …
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Washington, 25 may (EFE).- Más de medio centenar de senadores estadounidenses presentaron hoy de nuevo la Ley de Libertad para Viajar a Cuba en el Congreso, una legislación que eliminaría las restricciones vigentes para los viajes turísticos a la isla. Impulsado por el senador republicano Jeff Flake y el demócrata Patrick Leahy, el proyecto de …
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Miami, 25 may (EFEUSA).- La actriz texana Eva Longoria participará en la película “Overboard”, en la que ya estaban confirmados el mexicano Eugenio Derbez y la estadounidense Anna Faris, informaron hoy medios estadounidenses. La película, una nueva versión de la comedia homónima protagonizada en 1987 por Kurt Russell y Goldie Hawn, estará dirigida y escrita …
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Washington, May 25 (EFE).- American spies a year back intercepted communications in which Russian top officials discussed how to influence presidential candidate Donald Trump’s positions on Russia through his close aides, according to an article on Wednesday by The New York Times. Kremlin officials specifically referred to Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign chairman, and retired General …
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Washington, May 24 (EFE).- The healthcare reform proposed by President Donald Trump to “repeal and replace” ObamaCare, and which was narrowly approved by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, would leave 23 million people without healthcare coverage over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. The figure is slightly lower than the 24 million …
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Ciudad del Vaticano, 24 may (EFE).- El presidente de EEUU, Donald Trump, y el papa Francisco intercambiaron hoy mensajes de paz durante su reunión en el Vaticano, que tuvo un carácter muy formal y supuso un primer acercamiento entre dos líderes que encaran los principales desafíos actuales de manera muy distinta. “Necesitamos paz”, admitió en …
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