Chávez Lets West Make Oil Bids as Prices Plunge
By SIMON ROMERO
The financial crisis is hurting Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s efforts to establish a Socialist-inspired state.
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In addition to the strike on the U.N. compound, Israeli shelling also killed a senior Hamas official in Gaza.
The financial crisis is hurting Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s efforts to establish a Socialist-inspired state.
The Palestinian Authority’s top party, Fatah, seems increasingly marginalized, even in the cities it controls.
The journalist, Muntader al-Zaidi, 29, who was immediately arrested after hurling his shoes at President Bush has not been allowed visitors since Dec. 21.
In a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Susan E. Rice said her one of her priorities would be improving the U.N.’s ability to undertake peacekeeping operations.
On the tenth day of the Russian-Ukrainian dispute, the two sides argued over the shipment of gas for Moldova, the Balkans and Slovakia.
Announcing the arrests, Rehman Malik said Pakistan had formed a high-level committee to examine information on the attacks provided by India.
A legal advocate who was arrested after applying to hold a protest in Beijing during the Olympics in August has been sentenced to three years in prison, a lawyer said.
The former Russian tank commander, Yuri D. Budanov, had been stripped of his rank and sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2003 fro the murder of a young Chechen woman.
Three workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross were abducted by men believed to be members of the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group in the Philippines.
The senior commander who was killed, Gen. Fazel Ahmad Sayar, was head of the 207th Corps and one of four regional commanders in the Afghan Army, responsible for the western zone of the country.
The approval, in an especially heated session in parliament, came despite mounting opposition from residents, lawmakers and environmental campaigners.
For the first time in 12 years, the Netherlands’ canals froze this month, bringing the Dutch a heady mix of pandemonium and euphoria.
Bulgaria as a toilet? Romania as a Dracula-themed amusement park? Europeans find little amusement in an art installation intended to celebrate a unified Europe.
Israeli airstrikes hit a U.N. compound as the Gaza conflict raged into its 20th day. Dozens of sites were also targeted in Rafah, along Egypt's border with Gaza.
The recent fighting between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian group in control of the Gaza Strip, is the latest chapter in six decades of conflict.
Many people abroad say the war must be stopped. Yet few in Israel's Jewish population see it that way.