Tuesday, December 29th 2015. This Saturday morning, strong snowstorms and tornados South of USA were reported; leaving at least 20 dead, several wounded, trashed cars and completely or partially collapsed houses in its wake, around Dallas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas. The situation turned worse after six in the afternoon of that same day, when a […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2015. On Sunday, the National Popular Assembly (ANP, Legislative) of China, abolished the only child’s policy -approved in 1970 and launched in 1980, that only allowed couples have only one descendent. This new measure has already been decided and announced on October 29th at the annual plenary session of the Communist Party […]
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Monday, December 28, 2015. The weather phenomenon known as El Niño, continues wreaking havoc on the South American countries of Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. This past Saturday were recorded a total of 170 thousand evacuated due to the worst floods that have been reported in the last decades. According to a report issued by […]
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Thursday, December 24th, 2015. This week drowned at least thirteen migrants, including seven children, in the Aegean Sea off the Greek island of Farmakonisi, the port police of the country last Wednesday. A total of 29 people boarded a small boat polyester, which sank on Tuesday, of which only 15 people survived, held in hospital […]
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Thursday, December 24, 2016. Each week a group of guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), through a newscast transmitted on YouTube and recorded in Cuba show advances of the talks to tell their colleagues in Colombia about how are dialogs, thus breaking the media siege as they call it. This week they […]
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015. The Security Council of the United Nations (UN); demanded last Tuesday that the parties to the conflict in Syria facilitate humanitarian aid, and renewed measures that were in force, but that were not obeyed. This organization of the United Nations adopted a resolution proposed by Spain, Jordan and New Zealand; conferring […]
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015. The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos; legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes by means of a decree signed that regulates the cultivation, processing, import and export of cannabis (scientific name of marijuana) and its derivatives with therapeutic purposes. The President Santos made televised statements from the Presidential House […]
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Tuesday. December 22nd, 2015. Approximately seven locations in Paraguay, among them the capital city of Asuncion; have been declared in a state of emergency due to flooding of the Paraguay River, and the heavy rains that have occurred in recent weeks. This River has exceeded 7.2 meters high, leaving more than 13.0000 displaced families, for […]
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Tuesday. December 22, 2015. Last Sunday, in an industrial park in the south of China; a great mountain of earth and rubble of various origins collapsed, producing a landslide and vestiges. In this regard, the Minister of lands and resources; said that this incident occurred due to a mountain of earth, pieces of cement and […]
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Monday, December 21st 2015. 2015 was named as the “Thawing year” for USA and Cuba, since diplomatic relations between them have been re-established after more than 5 decades of confrontation. Now, they both recognize each other as neighboring countries that have reopened their embassies, establishing bilateral dialog channels in order to keep moving towards the […]