Ecuador

Japan coach Hajime Moriyasu said his team would learn from its Copa America heartbreak after missing out on a place in the quarterfinals following Monday's 1-1 draw with Ecuador. The result puts Paraguay, which did not play on Monday, into the quarterfinals of the tournament. Shoya ...

Ecuador President Lenin Moreno insisted Tuesday the United States would not be installing a military base on the Galapagos Islands, a day after the government revealed that American aircraft would be able to use an airstrip there. "There are not, nor will there be, foreign ...

Ecuador's highest court on Wednesday approved same-sex marriage in a landmark ruling in the traditionally Catholic and conservative South American country. The Constitutional Court said same-sex marriage had been approved in a five-to-four vote of its nine judges in a closed hearing. Ecuador, where the church ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told a London court on Thursday his work had protected "many people" and refused to agree to be extradited to the United States to face trial for one of the largest compromises of classified information in history. The United States has ...

Julian Assange's lawyers have filed a court complaint in Spain against a group of Spaniards they allege extorted the WikiLeaks founder, whom they say may have been the victim of "espionage," a source in his defence team said Saturday. Assange, who for seven years lived ...

The Ecuadorian government announced Saturday it will appeal a ruling won by the country's Waorani indigenous tribe that blocks oil companies' entry onto ancestral Amazonian lands for exploration activities. The Ministry of Energy and Non-renewable Natural Resources said in a statement it "will appeal the ...

Ecuador's indigenous Waorani tribe won its first victory Friday against Big Oil in a ruling that blocks the companies from entering ancestral Amazonian lands for oil-exploration activities. After two weeks of deliberations, a criminal court in Puyo accepted a Waorani bid for court protection in ...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was expelled from his hideout in Ecuador's embassy in London Thursday and promptly arrested by London police as his lawyer said he faces extradition to the U.S. London police said Assange was arrested moments after Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno said on ...

President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador told radio stations Tuesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has "repeatedly violated" the terms of his asylum in the nation's London embassy, where he has lived for nearly seven years. Moreno, interviewed by the Ecuadorian Radio Broadcasters' Association, said Assange ...