Londres, 13 ago (EFE).- El actor británico Kenny Baker, famoso por encarnar al androide R2-D2 en la saga fantástica “Star Wars” (“La guerra de las galaxias”), ha muerto a los 83 años después de una larga enfermedad, según informa hoy el diario The Guardian. La familia de Baker, quien encarnó por primera vez a R2-D2 …
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Cucuta, Colombia, Aug 13 (EFE).- Pedestrian crossings between Colombia and Venezuela that had been closed for nearly a year were reopened early Saturday, allowing thousands of Venezuelans to make their way to this border city to buy food and medicine. Hours before the border reopening, which occurred as scheduled at 5:00 a.m. Colombia time (1000 …
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Havana, Aug 13 (EFE).- Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, who turned 90 on Saturday, said in an article coinciding with that personal milestone that human beings were facing their greatest-ever existential threat and issued a call for “preserving the peace.” “We’ve got to keep hammering away about the need for preserving the peace and insist …
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Washington, Aug 12 (EFE).- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and husband Bill Clinton released Friday their joint 2015 tax return, which shows an income of $10.6 million, on which they paid an effective tax rate of 43.2 percent, including federal, state and local taxes. The Clintons donated 9.8 percent of their gross income of $10.6 …
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SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIF.– The Santa Clara County Parks Department has confirmed that the rectangular blocks of an unknown substance found in a watering trough at Santa Teresa County Park on August 10, 2016, is an organic pesticide routinely used by Santa Clara County Vector Control District. The material is used to eliminate mosquito larvae …
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Represa de Macagua, Venezuela, Aug 11 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his Colombian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos agreed Thursday to an “orderly, controlled and gradual” reopening of the common border between their nations, a frontier that has been closed for almost a year after a decision by Caracas. “We’re going to open the border …
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Los Ángeles, 11 ago (EFEUSA).- Once personas que integraban una red de robo de correspondencia y de identidad enfrentan cargos federales por operaciones en el área de mayoría hispana del Inland Empire, al este de Los Ángeles, informó hoy la fiscalía. Durante una operación en la que se recuperaron más de 1.100 piezas de correo …
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México, 11 ago (EFEMEX).- Las autoridades activaron hoy la emergencia ambiental en la Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México debido a un “incremento extraordinario” de contaminantes, por lo que ordenaron restricciones a la circulación vehicular y a la actividad industrial para este viernes. La Comisión Ambiental de la Megalópolis (Came) informó que la contingencia ambiental …
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Washington, 11 ago (EFEUSA).- Parapléjicos con lesiones en la espina dorsal recuperaron parte de su movilidad tras entrenar con robots y aparatos de realidad virtual controlados por ondas cerebrales, según un estudio publicado hoy en la revista Scientific Reports. Ocho personas que se sometieron a este estudio aumentaron su control muscular tras entrenar con aparatos …
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