United Nations, Mar 16 (EFE).- The Syrian government said Friday before the United Nations that more than 40,000 civilians left eastern Ghouta on Thursday, the main rebel stronghold in the outskirts of Damascus. The evacuation, according to Syria’s UN ambassador Bashar Ja’afari, was carried out through a security corridor opened by the government and was …
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Lima, Mar 15 (EFE).- Peru’s Congress on Thursday voted to debate the impeachment motion of President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski for his alleged ties to Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which has admitted paying millions of dollars in bribes to Peruvian politicians. Lawmakers voted 87-15 in favor of the impeachment motion, with 15 abstentions. To remove the …
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Buenos Aires, Mar 13 (EFE).- The natural collapse of the ice arch formed by the Perito Moreno glacier over the Magellan Peninsula of Argentino Lake caused floods in the nearby town of El Calafate, forcing evacuations, officials told EFE Tuesday. In the early hours of Tuesday, the lake, located inside Los Glaciares National Park in …
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Londres, 13 mar (EFE).- El físico británico Stephen Hawking ha fallecido a los 76 años en su casa de Cambridge, según fuentes de la la familia. El científico pasará a la historia, entre otros méritos, como creador de la teoría del “big bang”, término con el que se refirió al origen del espacio y el …
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Bogota, Mar 12 (EFE).- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said Monday that he will resume peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN), which were suspended Jan. 29 after a wave of attacks by the guerrillas. “Thinking of life, of saving lives, of achieving complete peace for Colombia. I have decided to renew peace dialogues …
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Guiana Space Center, French Guiana, Mar 10 (EFE).- Arianespace said its Soyuz rocket successfully launched four broadband satellites into space from the Guiana Space Center near Kourou. “Four additional spacecraft for SES’ O3b Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation were orbited (Friday) by a Soyuz launch from French Guiana, supporting a long-time Arianespace customer and …
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Lima, Mar 9 (EFE).- Peruvian authorities presented here Friday close to 500 archeological and art pieces recovered in the last few months from Argentina, the United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom, where they were being kept in private collections or were circulating on the black market. Some of the pieces include colonial-era paintings depicting …
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Caracas, Mar 5 (EFE).- At around 5:00 pm Monday in Caracas the summit of representatives of countries belonging to the Bolivarian Alliance (ALBA) convened to discuss Venezuela’s general elections, to be held next May 20. The host country’s head of state, Nicolas Maduro, led the meeting, in which Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and Presidents …
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Caracas, Mar 1 (EFE).- The head of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) said Thursday that the country’s presidential election has been postponed from April 22 to May 20 in response to an “agreement on electoral guarantees” signed by six candidates. “The date of the election is set for May 20, which means that we are …
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Caracas, Feb 27 (EFE).- President Nicolas Maduro officially announced his candidacy for re-election Tuesday before Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) in the April 22 balloting, which the main opposition alliance MUD plans to boycott. Earlier, the incumbent visited the grave of his political mentor, President Hugo Chavez (1954-2013), his motorcade passing along several streets in …
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