Sunday 23 November 2008
Chavez faces popularity test in local elections
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez crossed the country campaigning for his party's candidates in Sunday's local elections, which will also test Chavez's popularity after last year's referendum loss.
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- USA - POLITICS
- Obama names Robert Gibbs as press secretary
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- US President-elect Barack Obama has chosen close aide Robert Gibbs to be the White House press secretary while Ellen Moran from the women's organisation Emily's List would be director of communications
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- APEC SUMMIT
- Bush, Hu Jintao discuss N. Korea, financial crisis
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- Chinese President Hu Jintao met US President George W. Bush on the eve of the APEC summit in Peru, which will focus on the global economic downturn. The two leaders discussed North Korea's nuclear programme and the financial crisis.
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- USA
- Hillary Clinton 'will accept sec. of state post'
- Friday 21 November 2008
- The New York Times has quoted close Hillary Clinton aides as saying that she will accept the post of US secretary of state under President-elect Barack Obama. New York central banker Timothy Geithner could be named treasury chief.
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- ARGENTINA
- Senate approves pension funds takeover
- Friday 21 November 2008
- Argentina's Senate approved a state takeover of $24 billion in private pension funds. President Cristina Kirchner said this would protect workers from the financial crisis but critics have raised concerns about the country's ability to pay debts.
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- GLOBAL SECURITY
- Intelligence report predicts fading US influence in an unstable world
- Friday 21 November 2008
- A US intelligence report on global trends issued on Thursday forecasts a tense, unstable world shadowed by war, with ebbing US influence under the Obama presidency and a greater risk of nuclear weapon use.
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- APEC
- Summit aims to expand Asia-Latin America trade
- Friday 21 November 2008
- The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum opens Saturday in Lima, the Peruvian capital. With the US represented by lame-duck president Bush, Asian nations see the time as ripe to negotiate more access to Latin America's natural resources.
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- GUANTANAMO
- Judge orders release of five Algerian prisoners
- Friday 21 November 2008
- A US federal judge ruled that five Algerian prisoners at Guantanamo Bay must be released. They have served nearly seven years, and had legally challenged their confinement in June. The White House said it disagreed with the decision.
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- UNITED STATES
- US jobless claims soar to 16-year high
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- A whopping 542,000 people claimed unemployment benefits in the United States last week, the country's highest figure since July 1992, the Labor Department said.
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- USA
- Congress delays vote on automobile rescue
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- The Democrat majority in Congress has decided to postpone a vote on a $25 billion bailout package for the ailing "Big Three" US car manufacturers, demanding them to come up with viable restructuring plans.
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- USA - POLITICS
- Obama picks Daschle, Axelrod for his team
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- US President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle to be his health secretary and his chief campaign strategist David Axelrod (photo) for the White House senior adviser post.
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- BOLIVIA
- Morales claims US drug agency bugged his phone
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- Bolivia's leftist President, Evo Morales, has lashed out against the US Drug Enforcement Administration, which he claims tried to to tap into his telephone, casting a chill on the already frosty relationship between the two countries.
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- USA - TRANSITION
- Obama asks, candidates reply – in detail
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Snagging top spots in the US administration is not easy, with a questionnaire requiring applicants to delve deep into their pasts. It’s US President-elect Barack Obama’s scandal-averting measure. The question is, will the questionnaire work?
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