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US officials probe new whistleblower claims against Boeing
FILE- In this Sept. 30, 2020, file photo, a Boeing 737 Max jet, piloted by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Steve Dickson, prepares to land at Boeing Field following a test flight in Seattle.
AP / Elaine Thompson
2024-04-10, Al Jazeera
US aviation authorities have begun investigating new whistleblower claims accusing Boeing of poor safety standards, the latest in a series of safety-related controversies...
Ecuador’s former vice president hospitalized days after arrest in Mexican embassy
Ecuador’s Vice President Jorge Glas attends his sentencing at court in Quito, Ecuador, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017.
AP / Dolores Ochoa
2024-04-09, CNN
Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas has been hospitalized, days after his arrest during a high-profile raid of the Mexican embassy in Quito. Glas was taken a...
Ecuador arrests 2,174 since inception of "internal armed conflict"
A woman fails to find a copy of her son's identification, which he lost, before searching him for gang-related tattoos, which they did not find, and releasing him as they patrol a residential area on the south side of Quito, Ecuador, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024
AP / Dolores Ochoa
2024-01-19, Xinhua
QUITO, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Ecuadorian authorities have arrested 2,174 people, 158 of them on "terrorism" charges, over the past nine days amid escalating violence in the...
Ecuador hit by power cuts of up to 13 hours amid drought2024-04-18
Guam Pacific Daily News: AFP Apr 19, 2024 36 mins ago 0 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Ecuador's PresidentDaniel Noboa has blamed the power crisis on political sabotage by his rivals seeking to disrupt Sunday's referendum Handout Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email PrintCopy...
US reimposes oil sanctions on Venezuela2024-04-18
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: MIAMI -- The Biden administration on Wednesday reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela, admonishing PresidentNicolás Maduro's attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a...
Ecuadoran mayor killed ahead of referendum2024-04-18
Taipei Times: AFP, QUITO The mayor of a small mining town in Ecuador was shot dead on Wednesday, just days before a national referendum on whether to take tougher measures against crime, authorities said. Jose Sanchez, mayor of Camilo Ponce Enriquez canton in the southern...
Faculty awarded for creative, innovative community engagement (Cornell University)2024-04-18
Public Technologies: ) ThirteenCornell faculty members have received Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement. The awards, given annually to one person from each of the university's colleges and schools, recognize faculty...
Highway 50 Gold Acquires Quito North Project2024-04-18
Corsicana Daily Sun: VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 18, 2024 / Highway 50Gold Corp. (TSXV:HWY) ("Highway 50" or the "Company") announces that it has staked 28 unpatented claims located 10 km south of Austin, CentralNevada. The QuitoNorth claims cover ......
Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico’s embassy2024-04-18
Economist: On April 5th Ecuadorian police scaled the walls of the Mexican embassy (pictured)...
‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives2024-04-18
AOL: Living on the banks of the Bobonaza River, in the EcuadorianAmazon, the Indigenous communities in Sarayaku have always lived in harmony with nature. The rainforest, says Patricia Gualinga, is a sacred, conscious being. So when an Argentinian company was...
Xinhua world news summary at 0930 GMT, April 182024-04-18
China.dot.org: YANGON -- Twenty-two people were injured in a crash involving a truck carrying pilgrims and two other vehicles in Myanmar's Yangon region, an official from the Shwe Myittar RescueOrganization told Xinhua on Thursday....
Hamad International Airport is named the World’s Best Airport for 20242024-04-18
TravelDailyNews: Doha’s Hamad International Airport has been named the World’s BestAirport 2024 in the World Airport Awards, held at PassengerTerminalEXPO in Frankfurt on 17th April 2024. Hamad International Airport also won awards for the World’s Best Airport Shopping and...
Venezuela shuts embassy in Ecuador2024-04-18
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: MEXICOCITY -- Venezuelan PresidentNicolás Maduro ordered the closure of his country's embassy and consulates in Ecuador on Tuesday in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito. Maduro and...
Cuando un Telescopio quito el Hambre del Africa!!!!2024-04-18
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AP EXPLICA: Ecuador va a consulta popular de nuevo en un intento de reforzar lucha ...2024-04-18
Ottumwa Courier: QUITO (AP) — Los ecuatorianos votarán...
Gobierno de Ecuador suspende jornadas laborales y denuncia a 22 personas por crisis energética2024-04-18
Ottumwa Courier: QUITO (AP) — El gobierno de Ecuador decretó el miércoles la suspensión de la jornada laboral durante dos días, lo que se suma al incremento de hasta ocho horas diarias en el racionamiento energético causado por una sequía extendida que ......
Asesinan a tiros al alcalde de una ciudad minera del sur de Ecuador2024-04-18
Ottumwa Courier: QUITO (AP) — El alcalde de una pequeña ciudad minera del sur de Ecuador fue asesinado el miércoles a balazos, confirmó la alcaldía, en un momento en que la policía y militares realizan operativos permanentes para aplacar lo que el ......