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Bella Montoya being attended to after waking up in her coffin in Babahoyo, Ecuador on June 22, 2023. (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 14, 2023, 8:44 pm
Ecuadoran woman wakes in coffin 2 days after being declared dead
Bella Montoya, 76, started knocking on inside of her casket during wake and was sent back to the hospital that pronounced her dead
By Enrique Ortiz
Firefighters and Navy personnel carry a body recovered from the sea in Puerto Ayora in Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, on September 26, 2022, after a boat with tourists sank in the archipelago located 1,000 km off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. (Carlos Villalba/AFP)
September 27, 2022, 12:03 pm
Four dead as boat sinks off Galapagos, several still missing, three Israelis rescued
An American-Israeli was initially reported among the dead, but Foreign Ministry says no Israelis were killed in the accident off the coast of Ecuador
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The Cotopaxi volcano spewing ash and vapor is seen from Quito, Ecuador, November 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
August 16, 2022, 2:40 pm
Israeli falls to his death while climbing Ecuadorian volcano
Foreign Ministry received report of incident Monday from Israeli embassy; deceased’s family informed
By Ash Obel
Steven Donziger, in 2018. (video screenshot)
April 27, 2022, 11:53 am
Free after 993 days of detention, US lawyer vows to continue fighting Chevron
Steven Donziger says it’s time to force the oil giant to pay a court-ordered $9.5 billion for rainforest oil pollution. Chevron: The judgement was ‘fraudulent’
By Sue Surkes
A tanker truck passes the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, on March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
August 17, 2020, 8:43 am
‘Not necessary’ to probe spills linked to Chevron, energy minister says
Despite activists’ calls for urgent public debate about oil giant’s pollution record, Yuval Steinitz ‘confident’ that $5 billion deal to buy Noble Energy will be approved
By Sue Surkes
Former Ecuadorean President Abdala Bucaram leaves the Foreign Ministery in Panama City, Panama in this April 27, 2005. (Arnulfo Franco/AP)
August 13, 2020, 11:12 am
Ecuador’s ex-president detained in murder probe of jailed Israeli man
Abdalá Bucaram held as part of an organized crime investigation involving a possible COVID-19 medical supplies scandal and two Israeli men who posed as US Drug Enforcement agents
By GONZALO SOLANO
Shy Dahan (Courtesy)
August 9, 2020, 8:14 am
Israeli said murdered in Ecuador jail; tied to ex-leader’s alleged COVID-19 scam
Shy Dahan had a history of multiple allegations of international fraud, had escaped a Panama prison two years ago; was arrested in June on suspicion of peddling fake virus tests
By ToI Staff
Lawyer Steven Donziger, right, speaks to Huaorani women during the first day of the trial against Chevron-Texaco, in Lago Agrio, on October 21, 2003. A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the US petroleum giant went on trial in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
July 27, 2020, 6:52 pm
Keep ‘unreliable, immoral’ Chevron Corp. out of Israel, activists urge MKs
Demanding debate on oil giant getting Noble Energy’s Mediterranean stakes, campaigners say Chevron avoiding $9.5b payout for ‘Chernobyl of the Amazon’ spill, boding ill for Israel
By Sue Surkes
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, April 11, 2019 (Screen grab via Sky News)
April 11, 2019, 1:47 pm
British police arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
Ecuador says it approved raid on its London embassy, where Assange has been staying since 2012, citing international convention violations
By Agencies
In this file photo from May 19, 2017, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks on the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London. (Justin Tallis/AFP)
April 5, 2019, 12:25 pm
Ecuador denies decision made to expel Wikileaks founder from embassy
Though president accuses Julian Assange of hacking his personal phone, top official says Quito not planning to oust him from its London mission
By GONZALO SOLANO and Joshua Goodman
Inge Ginsberg performs heavy metal with the TritoneKings. (YouTube screen capture)
January 2, 2019, 5:40 am
97-year-old Holocaust survivor, spy, and heavy metal singer is ready to rock you
In the sunset of an adventurous and unconventional life, Vienna-born Inge Ginsberg declaims her ‘divinely inspired’ poems — backed by a death metal band
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jewish immigrants on a farm 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of Quito. (Courtesy Eva Zelig)
December 8, 2018, 1:43 pm
How tiny Ecuador had a huge impact on Jews escaping the Holocaust
A new book by author Daniel Kersffeld tells how when many countries shut their doors to Jewish refugees, one welcomed them in, allowing them to thrive in the arts and sciences
By Rich Tenorio
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia speaks at en event in the capital of Quito on November 9, 2018, to restore Manuel Antonio Munoz Borrero as a member of the country's diplomatic service. (Screen capture: YouTube)
November 14, 2018, 7:16 pm
Ecuador restores credentials of late diplomat who saved Jews from Nazis
Ecuadorian FM leads ceremony honoring Manuel Antonio Munoz Borrero, who was removed as consul in Stockholm for issuing passports to fleeing Jews
By JTA
Israeli Nobel Prize winner Ada Yonath, who is also a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, at a press conference in Rehovot. (Flash90)
August 7, 2018, 5:31 am
Ecuador honors first Israeli woman to win the Nobel Prize
South American state’s legislature hails Ada Yonath for helping to ‘strengthen inter-exchange opportunities’ between the countries
By JTA
Communications Minister Ayoub Kara speaks at a Likud party event in Lod on December 31, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2018, 2:55 pm
Minister claims mystery ‘prince of Bahrain’ is visiting Israel
Ayoub Kara says he discussed ties with the tiny Gulf nation during meeting in Tel Aviv, but Foreign Ministry says it has no knowledge of the royal visit
By Raoul Wootliff
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