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The US Is Looking to Merge Two Failed Wars in Latin America, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror
“All-out war in Venezuela cannot be ruled out”, warns Jeffrey Sachs. “Anything is possible because this is a long-standing operation.” In 2014, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) declared Latin America and the Caribbean a...

Ecuador nightclub shooting leaves eight dead
The shooting took place in the rural area of Santa Luca in the coastal province of Guayas, considered one of the country’s most dangerous. Seven of the victims, who were between 20 and 40 years old, died at the club and the eighth one at a...

Man who died after drugs arrest in Ecuador was originally from Offaly
THE Irish man who died four days after being arrested in Ecuador in a €600,000 drugs bust earlier this month was originally from Edenderry. John Fennessy (64) was a respected business man and factory manager who had no record of criminality of any...

Ecuador nightclub shooting leaves eight dead amid rising gang violence
A shooting at a nightclub in Ecuador on Sunday killed eight people and injured three others in the latest violent incident to hit the spiraling South American country, authorities said. The shooting took place in the rural area of Santa Luca in...

Ecuador: 8 people killed in shooting outside nightclub
Eight people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting outside a nightclub in southwestern Ecuador, police said Sunday. Police Colonel Javier Chango told a press conference that seven people died at the scene, and another died in the...

Ecuador confirma la muerte de 12 bebés en un hospital público de Guayaquil. Señala “causas multifactoriales”
Por Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español El Ministerio de Salud de Ecuador confirmó este sábado que 12 bebés recién nacidos han muerto en el Hospital Universitario de Guayaquil, administrado por el Gobierno, debido a lo que llamó “causas...

F-16 vs F-35 Clash On Cards As U.S. Orders Deployment Of 10 Stealth Jets To Puerto Rico Amid Trump’s Narco War?
The US has reportedly ordered the deployment of 10 F-35 stealth fighters to an airfield in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated US territory in the Caribbean, Reuters reported on September 5, citing informed sources. The deployment is aimed at...

Judge blocks Trump administration’s ending of legal protections for Venezuelans and Haitians. See how Friday unfolded.
US and EU plan to discuss new Russia sanctions: What could be next for Putin? — 9:43 p.m. By the Associated Press A team of European officials will visit Monday to discuss various forms of economic pressure to exert on Russia, including new...

Roaming Charges: Multiple Megalomaniacs
Still from John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs. Capitalism is presumably the first case of a blaming, rather than a repenting cult. … An enormous feeling of guilt, not itself knowing how to repent, grasps at the cult, not in order to repent for this...

USNS Comfort returns to Norfolk after a 79-day deployment providing medical care, humanitarian assistance
Sailors assigned to the Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort man the rails during Comfort’s homecoming to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., after completing Continuing Promise 2025 Aug. 17, 2025. (Deven Fernandez/U.S. Navy) The Mercy-class hospital...

Ecuador’s Ambassador Sees India Ties Entering ‘New, Strategic Era’
Home South America Ecuador’s Ambassador Sees India Ties Entering ‘New, Strategic Era’ India's decision to open an embassy in Quito signals closer connection with Ecuador, says Ambassador Fernando Xavier Bucheli Vargas As the global race for...

Uruguay, Colombia, Paraguay seal FIFA WC 2026 spot
New Delhi: Uruguay, Colombia, and Paraguay qualified for the FIFA World Cup 26 on a pivotal night in the South American Qualifiers, while Lionel Messi lit up Argentina's farewell in Buenos Aires and Brazil's rising star Estevao shone at the...

Health Catalyst Announces CEO Dan Burton To Step Down To Pursue Service Opportunities
(MENAFN- PR Newswire) Mr. Burton to Retire June 30, 2026, Actively Committed to Support Board in Transition and New CEO Search SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Catalyst, Inc. ("Health Catalyst,"Nasdaq: HCAT ), a leading provider...

Irishman who died in Ecuador after arrest in alleged cocaine smuggling plot coerced into taking part
An Irishman who died in a South American hospital after being arrested over an alleged cocaine smuggling plot was coerced into taking part, his family insists. “He was completely innocent,” a source close to the family told the Irish Sunday...

Food in times of inflation: the human cost of an inaccessible diet
La inflación alimentaria ha dejado de ser únicamente un fenómeno económico para convertirse en una preocupación urgente de salud pública. Desde la epidemiología nutricional, se reconoce como un determinante estructural de la malnutrición, con...

Six Vitruvian Health physicians recognized as Top Doctors in HealthScope Magazine
Published 8:30 am Saturday, August 16, 2025 Six physicians from Vitruvian Health appear in the July issue of HealthScope Magazine among its list of Top Doctors, reflecting the system’s overall mission of patient-centered excellence. HealthScope...

What Really Happened to Tom O’Brien’s Mayoral Run?
On a Monday morning this past March, Tom O’Brien was in his office at HYM Investment Group checking his emails when his phone rang. It was his public relations representative, Susan Elsbree, calling with unwelcome news—the secret O’Brien had been...

‘Eden’: The Film Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Ad Was For
This article was originally published by The Epoch Times: ‘Eden’: The Film Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Ad Was For A-list director Ron Howard’s powerful, true tale of deviousness, set in the Galápagos Islands, is part ‘Robinson Crusoe’ and part...

¿Como Bukele o como Rafael Correa? Las comparaciones que despierta el libreto de Noboa en Ecuador
Análisis por Ana María Cañizares, CNN en Español Los ecuatorianos son testigos en estos días de una verdadera medición de fuerzas entre el Gobierno de Daniel Noboa y la Corte Constitucional, en una batalla que tiene como consigna el combate a la...

AYUSH Ministry signs 25 Country-to-country MoUs to promote traditional medicine
Sl. No. Details of MoU Country 1. MoU between Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of AYUSH (on behalf of all the research councils- CCRAS, CCRUM, CCRS, CCRH, CCRYN) and the University ofMississippi, USA, on behalf...