Ecuador

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QUITO, Ecuador - After several days of suspense, the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador announced that Lenín Moreno of Rafael Correa's left-wing Alianza PAIS coalition failed to win the presidential election outright in the first round by the narrowest of margins and will face Guillermo Lasso in the runoff vote on April 2.

Ecuador will hold a run-off presidential election in April after a hard fought and inconclusive first round, the electoral commission said Feb. 22.

The voting is being watched closely to see if oil-producing Ecuador will become the latest leftist-run country in Latin America to shift to the right.

QUITO, Ecuador - Just days before Sunday's presidential election, Lenín Moreno of the outgoing leader Rafael Correa's left-wing Alianza PAIS coalition is leading in the polls but is unlikely to win outright in the first round.

7-February-2017 11:46 QUITO - Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic is through to the last 16 stage of the ATP tournament in Quito, Ecuador, after Spaniard Daniel Gimeno-Traver retired from their match Tuesday after 23 minutes of play, when Tipsarevic had a 4-1 lead in the first set.

QUITO, Ecuador - With the help of neighbor and host Ecuador, Colombia's government has finally entered into peace talks with the nation's second-largest rebel group, the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) or the Army of National Liberation, in Quito.

The Colombian government has opened the first round of peace talks with the ELN rebel group, seeking to end a 53-year conflict that has killed more than 260,000.

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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos postponed peace talks with the ELN rebels on Oct. 27 just hours before they were due to open, insisting they first release an ex-lawmaker being held hostage.

Santos said he remained committed to making peace but would not budge from his demand for the ELN to first free former congressman Odin Sanchez "safe and sound."