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Venezuela’s proven crude oil reserves had swelled to 130 billion barrels as of late April, marking a rise of 30 billion from its prior estimate, energy and oil minister Rafael Ramirez said Thursday.
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OLMERT: I DIDN’T TAKE ILLEGAL FUNDS
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he never took illegal campaign contributions, denying allegations in a police investigation. But he says […]
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Obama Pays Surprise Visit to House
Sen. Barack Obama made a surprise visit to the House floor this morning, acting and treated as, the party’s new Prince.
Entering by a side door and mobbed by House members, Obama is clearly seen as the new party leader, despite Sen. Hillary Clinton’s attempts to continue her campaign.
“I wanted to […]
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And then he was gone: Yesterday, Vladimir Putin stepped down from Russia’s presidency, and Dmitry Medvedev, his hand-picked successor, was inaugurated in a lavish ceremony as the country’s new head of state. (Kommersant)
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Hasta hace pocos años Bolivia dependÃa tanto de Washington como fuente de ingresos que con frecuencia sus ministros hacÃan visitas para solicitar préstamos que le permitiera al paÃs pagar la nómina de su gobierno. Normalmente no tenÃan dificultades en obtenerlos ya que habÃa confianza de que seguirÃa al pie de la letra las recetas económicas […]
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MOSCOW, May 7 — Dmitry Medvedev, a 42-year-old former law professor and protege of Vladimir Putin, was sworn in as Russia’s third president Wednesday, creating an unusual dual power structure in a country long dominated by one man.
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BANGKOK, May 8 — U.N. aid shipments began flowing to storm-ravaged Burma on Thursday amid growing international concern about a humanitarian crisis that already has claimed upwards of 100,000 lives.
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MERIDA, Mexico, March 14 — He dispensed with the formal state dinners and traveled through shanty neighborhoods. He met people struggling to make ends meet and called a visit to a Guatemalan village “one of the great experiences of my presidency.”
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 5 — Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on Wednesday used a four-letter expletive to dismiss the opposition victory in Sunday’s referendum and pledged to press forward with plans to approve constitutional changes that would expand his power in one of the world’s leading oil producing-countries.
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MEXICO CITY, Oct. 4 — Mexico’s top diplomat for North America announced Thursday that the United States and Mexico have come to terms on a proposed $1 billion, two-year aid package to help Mexico fight drug trafficking.
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JOHANNESBURG, May 7 — Gangs of youths loyal to Zimbabwe’s ruling party beat to death 11 opposition activists in a remote town this week in an escalation of post-election violence, opposition party officials and witnesses said Wednesday.
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Stoned on speed, Elvis Presley arrived at the White House wearing a purple velvet suit and bearing gifts for President Richard Nixon — a Colt .45 pistol and some silver bullets.
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BANGKOK, May 7 — Small quantities of drinking water, food, tents and other vital supplies reached Burma’s devastated Irrawaddy Delta region Wednesday, as bodies floated uncollected in swollen rivers and sea-flooded rice paddies five days after a cyclone roared through.
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EVEREST BASE CAMP, China (Reuters) - The Olympic flame reached the top of Mount Everest on Thursday, an emotional high for China and the crowning moment of a Beijing Games torch relay that was mired in anti-Chinese protests on its world tour.
“Long live Tibet!” and “Long live Beijing!”, the climbers, all wearing red, […]
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar’s junta gave the U.S. military permission to fly in relief supplies for the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, Thai Supreme Commander Boonsrang Niumpradit told Reuters on Thursday.
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Burma’s leaders are facing growing international concern over their reluctance to accept foreign aid, days after the devastating cyclone.
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Myanmar’s state media said Cyclone Nargis has killed at least 22,980 people and left 42,119 missing, but a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday that more than 100,000 may have perished.
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An inmate at the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba is set to be the first child soldier to go on trial for war crimes since Nuremberg, after a military judge ruled that there were no legal obstacles preventing the camp’s special military commissions from prosecuting him.
Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, was […]
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Josef Fritzl, who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and raped her repeatedly, was an “extreme pervert” who scared prostitutes with his controlling ways, it was claimed yesterday.
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MOSCOW (May 7) - Dmitry Medvedev was inaugurated as Russia’s
president on Wednesday, pledging to bolster the country’s economic
development and civil rights, in what may signal a departure from
his predecessor’s heavy-handed tactics.
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