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Ecuador's Shuar gird for conflict after protest

AP Features 50 days ago

Several hundred Shuar Indians wearing black war paint and toting wooden spears on Thursday reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up earlier in a bloody melee that left one Indian dead and at least 40 police injured. Police pulled ...

Africa, S.America vow to boost cooperation

AFP Global Edition 54 days ago

Leaders representing more than 60 African and South American countries signed agreements at a summit here aimed at creating a new regional financial system for the two continents to gain more clout and boost development. The second South America-Africa summit, hosted by ...

Ecuador's Correa faces indigenous revolt

AFP Global Edition 54 days ago

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa is facing the worst spate of social unrest of his second term, with indigenous leaders planning protests beginning Sunday against water privatization. Opposition forces have reacted angrily to what they claim are moves by the government to privatize ...

Africa, South America pledge new era of cooperation

AFP Global Edition 54 days ago

Leaders representing over 60 African and South American countries backed a new regional financial system Sunday for the two continents to gain more clout and boost development. The second South America-Africa summit reaffirmed its resolve to establish a South-South union that would ...

Venezuela ASA Summit

AP News 54 days ago

Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, left, speaks with Bolivia's President Evo Morales as they leave the plenary room of the Africa and South America Summit, ASA, in Porlamar, capital of Margarita Island, Venezuela, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos) Copyright 2009 AP ...

Ecuador says had no role in alleged bribery case

Reuters Environmental Online Report 69 days ago

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said on Saturday his government had no involvement in an alleged bribery scheme linked to a $27 billion environmental damages lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron Corp. The judge hearing the case, Juan Nunez, recused ...

Swine flu fells Ecuador president's security chief

AP News 75 days ago

Ecuador gov't: President Correa's security chief dies of swine flu after 4 weeks in hospital The Ecuadorean government says President Rafael Correa's chief of security has died of swine flu. The online government publication El Ciudadano says air force Lt. Col. John ...

Ecuador's Correa to seek suspension for TV channel

AP News 76 days ago

Ecuador's Correa eyes 90-day suspension for TV network over broadcast of taped conversation Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa says he will seek to have a television network suspended for airing a taped conversation between him and a legislator. Correa previously threatened to shut ...

Ecuador's Correa to close private TV station for 'spying'

AFP Global Edition 83 days ago

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa announced Saturday he is seeking to definitively shut down a private television station that he accused of "espionage" on his office. The station Teleamazonas, a private broadcaster that has been critical of Correa and his government, has already ...

Fit-looking Fidel Castro appears on Cuban TV

Reuters US Online Report World News 89 days ago

HAVANA (Reuters) - Fit-looking former leader Fidel Castro appeared on Cuban television for the first time since June 2008 and his photograph was published in an official newspaper on Sunday in a signal that his once-failing health has improved. Castro, 83, looked ...

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