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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- VENEZUELA
- Chavez faces popularity test in local elections
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- 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 picks Geithner, Summers for top economic jobs
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- US President-elect Barack Obama will nominate top policymaker Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary and former Clinton administration official Lawrence Summers as director of the National Economic Council, a transition official said.
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- HONDURAS
- Congress deputy speaker shot dead
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- Mario Fernando Hernandez, deputy speaker of the Honduran Congress, was shot dead by hooded gunmen in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, officials said.
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- APEC SUMMIT
- Bush, Medvedev agree on 'practical' cooperation
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- US President George W. Bush met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the ongoing APEC summit in Peru. The two leaders agreed to work together in a practical way despite differences during their last summit.
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- USA - EMPLOYMENT
- Obama outlines major job creation plan
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- US President-elect Barack Obama outlined his economic recovery plan in his weekly radio and internet address, pledging to create 2.5 million jobs by 2011. This comes as unemployment in the US reached its highest level in 16 years.
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- GUATEMALA
- Inmates beheaded in gruesome prison riot
- Sunday 23 November 2008
- At least seven prisoners were murdered during a brutal fight between gang members in Guatemala's Pavoncito prison. Most of the murdered inmates were beheaded and mutilated.
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- COLOMBIA
- Volcano eruption turns deadly
- Saturday 22 November 2008
- At least 10 people were killed when the Nevado del Huila volcano in southern Colombia erupted this week and triggered avalanches of earth and debris that damaged houses and crops.
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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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