Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home from Havana Friday, declaring to local television that his radiation therapy had been successful. He had two surgeries in the past year to remove tumours.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez telephoned state TV on Monday following a nine day silence that triggered rumours he had died while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba. He attributed the rumours to "dirty war."
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Cuba's capital Havana Sunday to undertake a second round of radiation therapy as part of his back-and-forth cancer treatment. Chavez is expected to complete five weeks of therapy in Cuba in total.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez flew to Cuba on Friday for an operation to remove a tumour. As he departed, he vowed to return for victory in October’s presidential election, which is shaping up to be a close race.
Is it the end of the road for Peru’s once-powerful Shining Path rebel group? The country has arrested one of the group's most notorious criminals. In Venezuela, it certainly won’t be easy to topple Hugo Chavez, but Henrique Capriles Radonski is taking on the task. Finally, two years after the explosion of its underwater oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is expected to pay out between 20 and 25 billion dollars to the US government in compensation.
State governor Henrique Capriles (pictured) won Venezuela's first-ever opposition primary on Sunday and will challenge President Hugo Chavez in October elections. Opposition groups have joined forces, hoping to keep Chavez from winning a third term.
Israel "has begun thinking the unthinkable", says The Times. It reports that Israeli officials think they will have to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran this year. That, and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's tour of Latin American countries, is the focus for this look at the world's papers, Tuesday 10th January 2012.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to Caracas Thursday claiming to be free of cancer four months after undergoing surgery in Cuba to remove a tumor in the abdominal region. He has undergone chemotherapy four times.
Muammar Gaddafi's family has been given asylum in Algeria. Libya's western neighbour says Gaddafi's wife and three of his children are there for "humanitarian reasons". Libya's National Transitional Council want them back but Algeria does not recognise the NTC as Libya's official government. Algeria's not alone in its stance. We take a closer look at some of Gaddafi's remaining international allies.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he will undergo a third session of chemotherapy for cancer in a Caracas hospital, instead of travelling to Cuba for treatment, possibly indicating he is optimistic about his recovery.
