Caracas, Mar 8 (EFE).- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday ordered schools and public and private sector work places closed due to blackouts that are affecting roughly 90 percent of the country and have lasted for nearly 20 hours. The blackouts began at around 5 pm on Thursday and were immediately reported by citizens on …
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Washington, 8 mar (EFE).- La Cámara de Representantes aprobó hoy un proyecto de ley que pretende ampliar los derechos de voto, implementar nuevas reglas de ética y aumentar la transparencia en las elecciones del país. La legislación, conocida como H.R.1, fue aprobada con 234 votos a favor y 193 en contra, estos últimos todos de …
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Miami, Mar 8 (EFE).- The unmanned Crew Dragon SpaceX capsule, the aim of which is to demonstrate the firm’s ability to send modules carrying astronauts into space, on Friday returned successfully to Earth after a test flight to the International Space Station. The capsule, an improved version of the Dragon cargo capsule, parachuted easily into …
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Nueva York, 7 mar (EFE).- Michael Cohen, el exabogado personal de Donald Trump, demandó este jueves en una corte de Nueva York a la Organización Trump, para la que trabajó por más de una década, a la que reclama 1,9 millones de dólares en honorarios y costos que dejó de recibir “sin un fundamento razonable”. …
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Caracas, Mar 7 (EFE).- The top envoy to Colombia of Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president on Thursday rejected the possibility of a Colombian military intervention in the neighboring country. “The last thing you want to see is a Colombian military incursion … in Venezuela. That would mark us for the rest of our days. So you …
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Washington, 7 mar (EFE).- Paul Manafort, el exjefe de campaña del ahora presidente, Donald Trump, fue condenado este jueves a 3 años y 11 meses de prisión por los 8 delitos de fraude de los que fue declarado culpable en agosto pasado. La condena contra Manafort no tiene relación con las actividades que desempeñó como …
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July 10, 1996 By Yolanda Reynolds Photos by Mary J. Andrade After five months of picketing and engaging in a “rolling strike” throughout four counties in the Bay Area, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa; janitors who are members of SEIU (Service Employees International Union) ended their strike upon securing a much improved …
Washington, 6 mar (EFE).- Michael Cohen, exabogado personal del presidente, Donald Trump, entregó hoy al Comité de Inteligencia de la Cámara Baja documentos que supuestamente prueban que el equipo legal del mandatario le ayudó con la declaración falsa que presentó ante el Congreso en 2017. Medios estadounidenses informaron que Cohen entregó borradores de su declaración junto a correos …
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Mexico City, Mar 7 (EFE).- Fewer than two dozen Gulf of California harbor porpoises, the most endangered marine mammal in the world, were spotted in Mexico during the summer of 2018, Autonomous University of Baja California Sur (UABCS) researcher Jorge Urban Ramirez said. “Only 22 vaquitas were seen in the summer of 2018,” Urban Ramirez …
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Chenalho, Mexico, Mar 6 (EFE).- The families and survivors of the massacre of 45 indigenous people which took place on Dec. 22, 1997 in Acteal, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, demanded on Wednesday that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) produce a report to determine whether or not human rights were violated. By …
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