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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been a thorn in Washington's side since taking office in 1999. He has threatened to interrupt vital oil shipments to the U.S. and claimed that President George W. Bush is planning an invasion to gain control

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BBC News

Venezuela has given the world's biggest oil company, ExxonMobil, until the end of this year to enter a joint venture with the state. Failure to do so will almost certainly result in Exxon losing its oil field concessions in the country.

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BBC News

Prosecutors in Chechnya have opened a criminal investigation after finding "catastrophic" levels of radioactivity at a chemical factory in the republic. Investigators say the radiation - in one place reportedly 58,000 times the usual level

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AP

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday the Holocaust is a "myth" in another sharp attack on Israel's right to exist that drew immediate harsh criticism from both the Jewish state and from Germany and the European Commissio

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Associated Press

Police learned of cell phone text messages urging people to retaliate for the attack on the lifeguards, fought back with batons and pepper spray. Young men of Arab descent struck back fighting with police for hours and smashing dozens of cars with st

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Associated Press

The racial unrest that broke out in Sydney's beachside suburbs over the weekend has spread to two other large Australian cities, where people of Middle Eastern descent were assaulted by whites, police said Tuesday.

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Reuters

More than 450 policemen, four times the usual number, will patrol Sydney's streets on Tuesday to prevent a third night of racial violence by youth gangs who have attacked people, smashed cars and hurled rocks at police.

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Utada Hikaru is a name not all Americans are familiar with, but we should be. She is one of the smartest music producers in the game, not to mention a terrific singer with one intelligent husband, Kaz Kiriya, directing her latest video.

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Reuters

An explosion ripped through a state-owned colliery in northeast China, killing 134 miners and trapping 15 underground, just days after Chinese leaders called for vigilance to prevent major accidents.

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Associated Press

A corruption scandal forced a vote of no-confidence Monday and Prime Minister Paul Martin's government has fallen, triggering an election campaign during the Christmas holidays.

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Reuters

North Korea called a recent CNN program depicting a public execution in the communist state a "sheer fabrication" and dismissed it as a ratings ploy by the U.S.-based broadcaster.

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Agence France Presse

Moves by the Russian state last week to retake control of the country's top carmaker, Avtovaz, suggest the Kremlin is aiming to reinforce its control of other sectors of the economy beyond energy.

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New York Times

Russia moved to impose greater government control over foriegn charities and other nongovernmental organizations, including some of the world's most prominent, in the latest effort to stifle civil society and democracy. impose restrictions on the

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Reuters

Ted Koppel, who built ABC's "Nightline" into a TV news institution 25 years ago, starting with the U.S.-Iranian hostage crisis, will leave the show on Tuesday with a low-key broadcast devoted to one of his favorite subjects, a guy named

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