Chavez wins chance of fresh term
• BBCVenezuelans have voted to lift limits on terms in office for elected officials, allowing President Hugo Chavez to stand for re-election.
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Venezuelans have voted to lift limits on terms in office for elected officials, allowing President Hugo Chavez to stand for re-election.
North Korea has been preparing to test missiles since January, the South's defense minister Lee Sang-hee told parliament, adding he had given commanders in the field authorization to respond to any North Korean provocation.
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President Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya was named chairman of the African Union on Monday, wresting control of a body he helped found and has long wanted to remake in his pan-African image.
Burn victims lined the floors of overwhelmed hospitals Sunday... after an overturned gasoline tanker exploded as hundreds of people tried to scoop up free fuel.
A moderate Islamic cleric was elected president of Somalia early Saturday morning by the Somali Parliament, which was meeting in Djibouti.
Mr. Flottman, East Africa director for the International Republican Institute, the pro-democracy group that administered the poll, said he had believed that the results would promptly be made public, as a check against election fraud by either side.
North Korea's vow to abandon all peace agreements with Seoul drew a mild response Friday from South Korea's president.
Iceland's center-left Social Democratic Alliance Party was chosen Tuesday to lead the country following the collapse of the island nation's government amid deep economic troubles and intense political discord.
At least 300 civilians were wounded and scores feared killed by Sri Lankan army artillery shells fired into a designated "safe zone" for ethnic Tamils trapped by fighting between the military and Tamil rebels, a health official alleged Tues
Iceland's coalition government collapsed Monday, leaving the island nation in political turmoil amid a financial crisis that has pummeled its economy and required an international bailout.
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Venezuela will seize several gold mining concessions that previous governments granted private operators, in a bid to supplement falling oil prices with proceeds from state-controlled gold, President Hugo Chavez said.