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Conservative ex-banker Lasso wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff
Apr 12, 2021 03:53Conservative candidate Guillermo Lasso has won Ecuador’s presidential runoff, defeating his Socialist rival, Andres Arauz.
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Ecuador court upholds ex-vice president’s prison sentence
Oct 17, 2019 05:00Ecuador has reaffirmed the six-year prison sentence given to former Vice President Jorge Glas for receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks as part of a corruption scandal, the prosecutor's office says.
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Ecuador reverses austerity cuts in deal with indigenous people to end protests
Oct 14, 2019 09:46Ecuador has reversed a set of controversial austerity cuts as part of an agreement with indigenous people aimed at ending nearly two weeks of deadly protests that paralyzed the country and forced the government out of the capital, Quito.
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Ecuador government, protesters agree to talk amid curfew
Oct 13, 2019 10:34The United Nations (UN) and the Catholic Church say the government and indigenous groups in Ecuador have agreed to hold talks for the first time to end the crisis engulfing the Latin American country over fuel subsidy cuts.
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Julian Assange formally refuses extradition to US
May 03, 2019 01:16WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has told a British court that he would not surrender to a request for extradition to the United States where he would face trial for one of the largest compromises of classified information in US history.
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Ecuadorian diplomat says Assange never disrespected London embassy staff
Apr 21, 2019 02:09A senior diplomat who used to work in the Ecuadorian embassy in London until last summer has denied claims by the country’s government that Julian Assange was evicted from the mission because of his disrespectful behavior, saying the press freedom activist suffered from a government plot to force him out.
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Ecuador president: Assange tried to use embassy in London as center for spying
Apr 15, 2019 02:49Ecuadoran President Lenin Moreno claims WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tried to use his country’s embassy in London, Britain, as a “center for spying,” and that his decision to strip the whistleblower of asylum followed “violations” of that status.
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WikiLeaks founder Assange rejects UK-Ecuador deal to leave embassy
Dec 08, 2018 11:57WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has rejected a proposed plan by Ecuadorean president to leave the country’s embassy in London with his lawyers insisting that the deal would not shield him against persecution and potential extradition to the US.
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Ecuador will extradite Assange to US: Ex-President Correa
Oct 24, 2018 10:36Former Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa says his country’s incumbent government will extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — who has taken shelter in the Ecuadorian Embassy in the UK — to the United States, despite its legal obligation to protect the Australian national, who has also obtained Ecuadorian citizenship.
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Ecuador president: Assange will need to leave embassy
Jul 27, 2018 11:10Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno says Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has taken refuge at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, will eventually need to leave.