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Quito, Apr 21 (EFE).- Ecuadorians on Sunday expressed broad support during a nationwide referendum for President Daniel Noboa’s proposals to strengthen the fight against organized crime, but largely turned their backs on his economic reform plans. Among the referendum’s 11 questions, the ‘Yes’ vote won with 62-73 percent support in...
Sports Desk, Apr 22 (EFE).- Jude Bellingham struck the winner in the 91st minute as Real Madrid came from behind twice to beat Barcelona 3-2 to come within sight of the Spanish LaLiga title at Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday. The draw sent Madrid, who battled past Manchester City in the...
Madrid, April 21 (EFE).- The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the pro-independence party EH Bildu tied with 27 seats each in Sunday’s regional elections in the Basque country, where the Socialist Party of the Basque Country (PSE-EE) came third with 12 deputies. With 98% of the votes counted, the PNV...
NB: This article from Feb 11, 2019, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 Bangkok, Feb 11 (EFE).- Refugee soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi was on Monday released from a Bangkok prison after nearly 80 days of detention and was heading home to Australia, Canberra confirmed Monday night. “Hakeem al-Araibi has left...
NB: This article from Oct 10, 2019, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 By Taryn Wilson Bangkok, Oct 10, 2019 (EFE).- It took five days for Toshi Kazama to unexpectedly awake from a coma. Someone had tried to kill him, he says, but exactly 16 years later, he still can’t...
NB: This article from Sep 11, 2018, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 By Taryn Wilson Mataram, Indonesia, Sep 11, 2018 (EFE).- After a series of major earthquakes, residents in the devastated north of Indonesia’s Lombok island are now facing health and economic problems as they try to rebuild their...
NB: This article from Jun 7, 2018, was republished on Apr. 21, 2024 By Taryn Wilson Kuala Lumpur, Jun 7, 2018 (EFE).- Hassan al-Kontar can only watch as thousands of people stream past him through Malaysia’s KLIA2 airport and disappear through immigration. For more than three months he has been...
Sydney, Australia, Apr 15 (EFE).- New South Wales police were investigating Monday why the Sydney knife attack attacker appeared to have targeted women. On Saturday, 40-year-old Queensland man Joel Cauchi killed six people, including five women, during a stabbing rampage in Westfield Bondi Junction shopping center. «It’s obvious to me,...
Singapore, Aug 3 (EFE).- Singapore executed Thursday a prisoner for trafficking around 54 grams of heroin, in what was the third drug-related execution in the city-state since last week. Mohamed Shalleh Bin Adul Lattif, a 39-year old Singapore citizen, was executed on being found guilty of possessing no less than...
Cairo, Jul 26 (EFE) – Iran announced Wednesday that foreign ministers of the 56 member countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) would meet virtually on July 31, to discuss the burning of copies of the Quran – the holy book of Islam – in Sweden and Denmark. Iranian...
New Delhi, Jul 20 (EFE).- At least 10 people died and dozens remain trapped following a landslide in a village in western India, with rescue teams working around the clock to recover possible survivors, officials said Thursday. This landslide occurred on Wednesday night in Maharashtra state’s Raigad district, which, like...
Madrid, Mar 22 (EFE).- A no confidence motion filed by far-right politicians against the left-leaning coalition government of prime minister Pedro Sánchez flopped in parliament Wednesday. The Vox party presented 89-year-old economist Ramón Tamames, a former Communist Party member, as a replacement for the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Sánchez. The...
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