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Energy deals boost Colombia-Venezuela ties despite border violence
World NowAs bi-lateral relations improve, Venezuelan President Chavez promises to send added troops to the area where FARC rebels fled after killing 12 Colombian soldiers... -
Colombian army officials say 12 soldiers killed by rebels
World NowTwelve Colombian soldiers were killed by suspected leftist guerrillas who then fled into Venezuelan territory.... -
Pittsburgh cafe offers cuisine from the U.S. conflict du jour
PITTSBURGH — Jon Rubin had an important question, and he knew where to find the answer: at the North Korean Embassy in Cuba, which he was visiting in March on a business trip. A man in jogging clothes and flip-flops came to the embassy gate after...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Tehran (Iran), Iran, Career and Workplace, Arts
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Q&A: 'The Dictator'
It's not often that an oppressive dictator sits down with the free Western press and openly answers probing questions about his rule, his crimes against humanity and his fashion choices — those last two often being one and the same. It's even...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Iran, Freedom of the Press, Fidel Castro
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Outside opinion: Hugo Chavez, student loans and Israel vs. Iran
Today's roundup of provocative newspaper punditry from around the globe: - Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has made a few moves to shut down independent media in the course of his socialist revolution, but opposition voices survive, as indicated by a...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Iran, Freedom of the Press, Newt Gingrich
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Venezuela's Chavez breaks silence with lengthy phone call
World NowVenezuela's President Hugo Chavez denounced rumors that he had died undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba, saying they were part of a "dirty war" being waged against him by opponents and that he was responding well to radiotherapy.... -
U.S. foreign policy, close to home
The United States cannot afford to keep putting Latin America on the back burner as it focuses the bulk of its attention on Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The Western Hemisphere holds significant strategic interest for the U.S. — as well as...
Tags: Political Systems, Politics, Chile, Cuba, Colombia
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International Women's Day: What's happening around the world
World Nowwomen, human rights, International Women's day, equality: It's International Women's Day. The event, born of the socialist movement in the United States the early 1900s, has spread across the world in the century since. But the day looks very different... -
Costa Rican trade attache kidnapped in Venezuela
World NowCosta Rica's trade attache to Venezuela was kidnapped outside his home near Caracas and his captors demanded ransom for his release, the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry disclosed Monday.... -
Back again, liberal Mexico candidate makes pitch to business leaders
World NowMEXICO CITY -- In 2006, when he came within a hair of winning Mexico's presidency, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's opponents on the right called him a "danger to Mexico," a would-be Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and said he would plunge the country into an... -
Argentina president Fernandez proposes oil firm nationalization
World NowArgentinan president Cristina Fernandez proposal to nationalize a majority interest in the country's biggest oil company is a reaction to rising imports.... -
At Americas summit, Obama says no to legalizing drugs
CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Obama sought Saturday to emphasize the robust economic relationship between the United States and Latin America, and he flatly ruled out legalizing drugs as a way to combat the illegal trafficking that has ravaged the...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Secret Service, Career and Workplace, Cuba, Colombia
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