Controversy erupts as a paper surfaces purportedly detailing the Venezuelan leader's directives to envoys to boost his nation's sway.
A reported plan by leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to bolster his influence in Paraguay has sparked a heated debate about alleged foreign "infiltration" in the affairs of this small South American nation.
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Nick Sloan was $68,021.35 in debt earlier this year when he decided he needed a change. Sloan, 26, is a captain in the Air Force, and he was stationed in Colorado Springs, Colo. Looking at his financial life, he saw only a series of bad decisions. So he made what he calls a "radical" break: He volunteered to go to Iraq. In May he arrived for duty in Baghdad.
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Desperate to escape a three-month army siege, a group of al-Qaida-inspired militants sneaked through a tunnel below their refugee camp base and launched a surprise dawn attack on soldiers.
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Some of the same Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan are now unleashing their considerable firepower against each other in a battle over the spoils of war that is killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands.
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Iran claimed Sunday that it had reached its goal of running 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, a much higher number than recently estimated by the United Nations' atomic agency.
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Security forces arrested former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia and her younger son in an early morning raid on graft charges.
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Police tightened security and checked people and vehicles entering the Nepalese capital, one day after three bombs exploded almost simultaneously, killing at least two people and injuring 13.
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Australia and the United States will outline a new defence pact later this week to give Australia more access to top-secret American military technology.
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Hurricane Felix intensified into a potentially devastating Category Five storm on Sunday as it churned its way through the Caribbean toward Belize and Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.
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The world's largest passenger jet will fly past Hong Kong's mass of skyscrapers and the city's famed Victoria Harbour on Monday to raise the curtain for Asia's largest airshow.
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The soaring concrete and glass office block thrusts towards the sky, like a rocket with its boosters strapped to its side, in downtown Moscow's Ulitsa Nametkina. After passing through security and handing over your passport to a stern-looking official, you cross a bleak windswept plaza to the tower of power. You don't need to be paranoid to feel hundreds of eyes bearing down on you. Once inside, your papers are scrutinised again and your bags put through X-ray machines. It is hard not to think of Fritz Lang's science fiction film Metropolis, with its giant tower filled with toiling workers yearning to be free.
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Wearing green vestments, the Roman Catholic liturgical colour of hope, Pope Benedict XVI yesterday urged half a million youngsters to save the planet while there was still time.
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German entrepreneurs are planning to outstrip the ancient Egyptians by building the world's largest pyramid on a derelict site in eastern Germany ? which they claim will eventually contain the remains of millions of people in concrete burial blocks.
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The French Socialist leader, François Hollande, warned party members yesterday that they faced a "long march" before the Left could hope to recapture France from the "emotional" spell of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Dangerous storm packing 165-mph winds is projected to skirt Honduras' coastline on Tuesday before slamming into Belize on Wednesday.
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Haleh Esfandiari obtained a passport and left Tehran for Austria, where her sister lives, her lawyer said.
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The Lebanese army exchanged fire with militants as it searched for fugitives from the last militant stronghold of a Palestinian refugee camp which fell Sunday after more than three months of fighting between Islamic fighters and Lebanese soldiers.
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The United States has decided to remove North Korea from a list of terrorism-sponsoring states and lift sanctions against the communist country, North Korea's Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday.
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Sky News reports that British troops have completed withdrawing from a base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
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Ferocious Hurricane Felix was roaring over the Caribbean Sea on Monday at a rapid pace, with meteorologists predicting it would wack the Nicaragua and Honduras by Tuesday morning.
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President Bush and his top national security advisers arrived in Iraq today, a week before Gen. David H. Petraeus was scheduled to deliver his long-awaited report on the Iraq war.
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President Bush landed in Iraq today on his third surprise trip to the war zone, this time intent on emphasizing his belief that his military strategy was working to ease the violence.
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Iraqi soldiers hoisted the nation's flag over the Basra palace compound today after British troops withdrew from their last garrison in the city, a move that will hand control to an Iraqi force riddled with Shiite militiamen.
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Without promising numbers or dates, the president presents a positive view of how security has improved in Anbar province, a former hotbed of Sunni insurgents.
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A State Department spokeswoman said she did not have confirmation of the report, carried by the North's official news agency.
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Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for rocket that lands in a courtyard next to a crowded day care center in Sderot, near the Gaza Strip.
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Iraqi forces riddled with Shiite militiamen take control over the country's second-largest city today.
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Al-Qaida-linked gunmen ambushed a minibus near the restive Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday and kidnapped 11 passengers.
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Bush is cutting short his trip at the major Asia-Pacific summit in Sydney this weekend to return to Washington in time to give reports to the Congress on progress in Iraq.
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The autobiography of evergreen Bollywood actor Dev Anand - Romancing With Life - will be formally released on his 84th birthday on September 26 in New Delhi by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Pakistan Minister Muhammad Ali Durrani said if Sharif returns, the government will deal with the situation as per the laws of the country.
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A Palestinian rocket exploded today next to a day care center crowded with toddlers in southern Israel, sparking anger and panic in the frequently targeted town of Sderot and bringing warnings of retribution from Israeli leaders.
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While Basra remained gripped by a brutal militia turf war, British soldiers withdrew from Basra Palace, the symbol of the UK's involvement in the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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Felix strengthened once again into a Category 5 hurricane early Tuesday as it headed for the Nicaragua-Honduras border.
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