Sao Paulo, Jul 8 (EFE).- The president of Brazil’s fourth regional federal court (TRF-4), Thompson Flores, resolved a legal dispute between two judges on Sunday over the possible release of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ordering authorities to keep the former Brazilian president in prison. Flores’s decision was in response to a request by Brazil’s …
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La Paz, Jul 8 (EFE).- The creation of a topographical map of the ancient citadel of Tiwanaku, some 71 kilometers (44 miles) west of this capital, has been made possible by a UNESCO-sponsored project helmed by Spanish archaeologist Jose Ignacio Gallegos. “Discovering this site map is one of those things that don’t usually happen to …
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Sao Paulo, 8 jul (EFE).- El juez João Gebran Neto, instructor del caso Lava Jato en un tribunal de segunda instancia, revocó hoy la orden de excarcelación “inmediata” de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva dictada por otro magistrado y decidió mantener al expresidente brasileño en prisión. Gebran Neto es uno de los tres jueces que …
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Mae Sai (Tailandia), 8 jul (EFE).- Las autoridades tailandesas confirmaron hoy el rescate de cuatro de las trece personas atrapadas desde hace más de dos semanas en el norte de Tailandia y quienes han sido ingresados en el hospital de Chiang Rai. Narongsak Ossottanakorn, portavoz oficial de los operativos, evitó desclasificar ni el estado de …
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Seoul, Jul 6 (EFE).- The United States Secretary of State arrived on Friday in Pyongyang, where he is scheduled to meet the North Korean leader and begin discussing the preliminary details of the denuclearization the regime has promised. Mike Pompeo landed at Sunan International Airport after a stopover at the Yokosuka naval base in Japan, …
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Tucume, Peru, Jul 5 (EFE).- A set of as many as 24 royal tombs was discovered in Peru’s majestic Valley of the Pyramids, shining a new light on the largest empire in the pre-Columbian Americas. The finding – which was presented on Wednesday by a group of archaeologists with the country’s Ministry of Culture – …
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Quito, Jul 4 (EFE).- The Ecuadoran Ministry of Culture this week re-opened the Camilo Egas art center in this capital, honoring the pioneer of the country’s indigenous realism style. The museum features one of the late Egas’s most important modern collections, Ivete Celi, sub-secretary of the Ministry of Culture’s Social Memory department, told EFE. The …
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Quito, Jul 3 (EFE).- Ecuador’s National Court of Justice on Tuesday accepted a request from prosecutors seeking to have former President Rafael Correa – currently living in Belgium, his wife’s homeland – arrested for purposes of extradition. The judge in the case, Daniella Camacho, said she would submit a request to Interpol for Correa’s capture, …
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Bogota, Jul 3 (EFE).- Sophia, the social humanoid developed by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics, on Tuesday said that she believes that robots and humans can be “incredible” partners when combining their abilities. “Nothing can replace a human life,” the automaton told EFE in an interview. “We robots will need your emotional and social intelligence to …
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Beijing, Jul 3 (EFE).- China on Tuesday asked the United States not to suppress Chinese companies or block them from its territory after the administration of President Donald Trump recommended a day earlier that state-owned China Mobile, the world’s biggest cell phone carrier, be denied a license to operate in the US. “We urge the …