Jerusalem Post: BERLIN – The Iranian government is moving forward with the construction of rocket launch bases in Venezuela, the German daily Die Welt wrote in its Thursday edition. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is Teheran’s most important South American ally. Iran is building intermediate- range missile launch pads on the Paraguaná Peninsula, and engineers from [...]
Reuters: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress he would start tapping into federal pension funds on Monday to free up borrowing capacity as the nation hits the $14.294 trillion legal limit on its debt. The Treasury will issue $72 billion in bonds and notes on Monday, pushing the nation right up against its borrowing cap [...]
A fire and a series of explosions tore through a military arms depot Sunday, killing one person and leading authorities to evacuate thousands of people. (Jan. 30)
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – President Hugo Chavez has given himself the equivalent of a big Christmas present in congress: a package of laws that dramatically expand his powers and allow him to undermine opponents in one of the boldest moves of his presidency. In a single week, he has used an outgoing National Assembly packed [...]
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday asked congress to grant him special powers to enact laws by decree for one year, just before a new legislature takes office with a larger contingent of opposition lawmakers. The measure would give the president the ability to bypass the National Assembly for the fourth [...]
Washington (AP) – In a case of closing the barn door after the horses are out, federal employees are being warned not to look at documents leaked by WikiLeaks website, noting that despite their wide release, the hundreds of thousands of stolen papersare still classified by the U.S. government. An internal memo sent late last [...]
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Haaretz: The United States and its European allies are putting together a new offer for talks with Iran over its nuclear program, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper cited a senior U.S. official as saying the Obama administration and its partners were “very close to having an agreement” on a position to [...]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia agreed on Friday to build Venezuela’s first nuclear power station after talks between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Hugo Chavez in the Kremlin. Russian nuclear agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro signed a deal on “the construction and use of an atomic power station on the territory of [...]
The Hill: A fresh challenge to a South American strongman has fed bipartisan support for the White House to significantly change how it deals with Venezuela. The Democratic chairman and the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Western Hemisphere subcommittee believe that the Obama administration should focus engagement with Venezuela on reaching out to [...]
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tried to break his long-standing monopoly on power Sunday in congressional elections, while the firebrand leader rallied his supporters urging them to “attack” through the ballot box. Voters formed long lines at polling stations during elections that stirred strong sentiment on both sides of Venezuela’s [...]
