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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (C) talks to the media as he arrives with Bolivian President Evo Morales (2nd R) at a plenary session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 18, 2009. UPI/Anatoli Zhdanov
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is grappling with embarrassing shortages of consumer goods, in some cases rated to be worse than under Hugo Chavez.
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla's recent flights on a jet owned by a man with suspected ties to drug trafficking are under investigation, officials said.
Political terrorist Ilich "Carlos the Jackal" Ramirez Sanchez asked a French court Monday to review his life sentence for deadly bombings in the 1980s.
The United States denied allegations by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro U.S. operatives are involved in an assassination plot against him.
Venezuela's emboldened opposition coalition filed a Supreme Court challenge to President Nicolas Maduro in a hardening of political conflict in the country.
Venezuelan lawmakers were bloodied and bruised in a brawl set off by an opposition protest of a gag rule against those disputing the presidential vote results.
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All parties to post-election violence in Venezuela are called on to work to reduce tensions as they chart the country's future, the British government said.
Venezuela's presidential election results will be electronically audited with opposition monitors on hand, the nation's election regulators say.
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