Por Mónica Pereiro Guadalajara, España – La poetisa y escritora española, Julie Sopetrán, fue invitada por las autoridades colombianas de Medellín a conocer y participar en las fiestas de la ciudad de Sopetrán, que se celebraron recientemente, durante la semana del 15 de agosto. Julie fue recibida por las autoridades. El alcalde, junto con miembros …
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Geneva, Aug 23 (EFE).- More than 26,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America were arrested at the United States border in the first six months of 2016, said UNICEF on Tuesday. The report also stated that another 16,000, also unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, never made it to the US as they were …
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Washington, 16 ago (EFEUSA).- Los latinos envejecen más lentamente pese a tener índices más altos de diabetes y otras enfermedades que grupos como los caucásicos, según un nuevo estudio de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles (UCLA). Los científicos lo llaman “la paradoja latina”, explica Steve Horvath, el autor principal de esta investigación publicada …
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Lima, Aug 16 (EFE).- A magnitude-5.3 earthquake left four people dead, 68 injured and 1,253 families homeless in a rural area of Caylloma province in southern Peru’s Arequipa region, to which the authorities have sent humanitarian aid in helicopters and by land. The fatalities were an 80-year-old woman, another age 70 and her granddaughter, a …
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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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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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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La Paz, Aug 10 (EFE).- Juan Dual, a 31-year-old Spanish nurse who lost a good part of his digestive tract to cancer, has toured much of Bolivia on a bicycle and is now about to head to Argentina on a Latin American journey to warn about the disease. Dual began his trek last Nov. 15 …
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Quito, Aug 10 (EFE).- A new center to screen freight bound for Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands, to be located at the Port of Guayaquil, will help combat the unwanted introduction of invasive species into that biodiverse archipelago. The president of the Galapagos Governing Council, Eliecer Cruz, told EFE that the freight consolidation center would be built …
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