CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put troops on alert after a coup in Honduras and said he would respond militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was kidnapped or killed. Chavez said Honduran soldiers took ...Read More
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter" who supported the cause of the Palestinians. The Venezuelan president praised Carlos - whose real name ...Read More
CARACAS, Venezuela - Hugo Chavez is defending alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was a "revolutionary fighter" rather than a terrorist.The Venezuelan president praised Carlos - whose real name is Ilich Sanchez Ramirez - ...Read More
Washington/Tegucigalpa - The United States Friday welcomed the intention by disputed Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti to temporarily step aside during elections, saying it created some "breathing space" for resolution of the five-month-old crisis. "We expect its prompt implementation. This will ...Read More
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Business was bad in Honduras even before the president was ousted in a June coup, unleashing months of political turmoil that have deepened the impoverished country's economic woes. Honduras was already suffering from the recession in the United ...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Honduras' de facto leader should make good on an offer to step aside for a week so voters can focus on November 29 polls and resolve the country's political crisis, the U.S. State Department said Friday.
Roberto Micheletti, ...Read More
The Honduran de facto regime on Friday ordered citizens to turn in their weapons in a bid to avert violence around disputed presidential elections to be held at the end of the month. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya has called on his ...Read More
TEGUCIGALPA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Honduran ousted President Manuel Zelaya proposed on Thursday to postpone the Nov. 29 elections, till the power of the state is restored to the situation before the June 28 coup. The Honduran Congress earlier this week ...Read More
Honduras' interim president said Thursday he may step down temporarily to allow voters to concentrate on the upcoming presidential elections. Roberto Micheletti said he will consult his advisers and those who have supported his government on whether he should step aside ...Read More
DHAKA, Bangladesh—The Supreme Court rejected final appeals Thursday by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh's independence leader in a military coup, a government attorney said. A five-member jury dismissed the men's plea to commute the ...Read More
President Shimon Peres predicted on Tuesday that the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long. Speaking at a forum in Argentina, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil, which ...Read More
He also said it would be illegal for the international community to launch military action against Iran without solid evidence that Tehran has developed nuclear weapons.
The former diplomat, now an associate fellow at international think-tank Chatham House, was speaking as ...Read More
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A North Korean cargo ship visited a South Korean port Monday, showing that trade between the rival countries is continuing despite their bloody naval skirmish last week. The ship unloaded 1,750 tons of silica at Incheon ...Read More
SEOUL, South Korea - A North Korean cargo ship arrived in a South Korean port Monday, showing that trade between the rival countries is continuing despite their bloody naval skirmish last week.
The ship was scheduled to unload 1,750 tons of ...Read More
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea briefly activated radar for its surface-to-ship missiles Sunday, forcing South Korean naval vessels to move away from a disputed western sea border where the two countries' navies clashed last week, news reports said. North Korea ...Read More
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican known for his efforts to block influence domestic immigration and health-care issues, has scored a foreign-policy coup by helping to compel the Obama administration to shift its stance on strife-ridden Honduras. After ...Read More
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez is inviting former Cuban leader Fidel Castro to next month's meeting of the regional ALBA trade bloc being held in Havana. Chavez says Castro is well enough to attend the conference in mid-December. Venezuela's leftist ...Read More
BOGOTA—Four soldiers from Venezuela's National Guard captured in Colombian territory will be repatriated in a bid to ease tensions between the South American neighbors, President Alvaro Uribe's government said Saturday.
The Colombian navy intercepted the men Friday in El Aceitico along ...Read More
CARACAS - Call it the Bolivarian battle of the bulge. President Hugo Chavez said in a televised speech that "there are lots of fat people" in Venezuela, and advised his supporters to exercise and eat healthy. "I'm not saying fat women, because ...Read More
