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President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez caused a stir today when he compared the Copenhagen Climate Summit to an “imperial dictatorship” and blamed capitalism for “everything that’s wrong with the planet.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi came to President Obama’s aid on health care legislation Wednesday, taking on an enraged liberal base that includes many House...
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A tourist bus crash in South Korea has killed 17 people and injured 14 others.
Police officer Park Sang-ho said the bus was carrying 31 people — all South Koreans in...
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A New Zealand church has sparked outrage by erecting a billboard depicting Mary and Joseph lying semi-nude beneath the sheets.
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The night his 11-year-old son escaped from kidnappers, Abdul Aziz bundled a few belongings into a car and drove his family 18 miles north across the Afghan border into...
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An all-singing and all-dancing video by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s centre-right political party has become the mocking buzz of the month on French-language...
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Yesterday Mugabe had a brief opportunity to address the Copenhagen Climate Change conference - and, as we thought he might, he had a go at the USA and the UK and the...
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One of Mexico’s most-wanted drug lords has been killed in a shoot-out with state security forces, officials say.
Arturo Beltran Leyva and four alleged members of...
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The lucky ones survive with mutilated penises and shameful scars for the rest of their lives, but that’s the high price boys in rural South Africa pay to become a...
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The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo says a joint military operation against rebels will be concluded at the end of this month.
Alan Doss told the UN...
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The acting Inspector General of Government, Mr Raphael Baku, has issued a hash indictment of government, saying all its various departs are corrupt but only differ in...
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Two of Colombia’s biggest rebel groups have announced they intend to unite with each other against the country’s US-backed security forces.
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The failure of the international community to reach a deal with Tehran is sparking fears of an atomic arms race in the volatile and oil-rich region.
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Vladimir Putin has a lot to celebrate this Christmas. Not only has the Russian strongman consolidated his control over the proletariat — and all their oil and gas...
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Pakistan’s top court struck down an amnesty Wednesday that had protected U.S.-allied President Asif Ali Zardari from corruption charges, setting the stage for...
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More specifically, how we define privacy in our texting, tweeting, Facebooking, YouTubing, Googling era.
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The British Broadcasting Corp. suffered criticism from lawmakers Wednesday for inviting debate on whether homosexuals should face execution in Uganda.
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For the first time in eight years of his rule has he dared speak the truth and explain his powerlessness to a public that is least interested in his words and more in...
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When Venezuela’s Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo ChÁvez impishly asked, “So how’s the...
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A report for the U.S. Congress on drug smuggling through Venezuela concludes that corruption at high levels of President Hugo Chávez’s government and state aid...
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Dreaming of a new life, Ramón Barrera came to El Charcote, a vast farm here in northwestern Venezuela, several years after President Hugo Chávez’s populist...
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For the past decade, analysts have debated whether the administration of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is democratic. This debate now seems settled.
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Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan President, has tightened the noose on Globovisión, the last opposition news channel broadcasting freely in the country, amid threats to...
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