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Venezuelan Security Ready for Polls

<p style="text-align: justify;">Venezuela Major General Henry Rangel said the Armed Forces along with the militias will guard the polling stations before and during Sunday's Parliamentary elections. Read More

Colombian President Confirms Rebel Leader's Death

<p style="text-align: justify;">Bogota, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed Thursday in New York that FARC military chief Victor Julio Suarez Rojas, alias Jorge Briceño or Mono Jojoy, was killed in a bombing. Read More

AP: US, Haiti accord paves way for Korean factories

<p style="text-align: justify;">PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti. U.S. and Haitian officials signed an agreement Monday with a South Korean clothing manufacturer to build garment factories that they said will employ 10,000 people in this quake-ravaged nation. Read More

Millennium Goals: In the Final Stretch

<p style="text-align: justify;">Leaders from 140 countries are arriving to New York since Saturday to give a decisive boost to fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals, set 10 years ago to be met by 2015. Advances until now and difficulties that threaten the achievement of those goals will be the main issue of the UN summit which meets here from Monday to Wednesday. Read More

Venezuelan President to travel to China

<p style="text-align: justify;">Caracas, 16 Sep. AVN .- Venezuela"s President Hugo Chavez announced on Wednesday that he will soon travel to the People"s Republic of China to have a meeting with the president of that country, Hu Jinta Read More

A common aim: to support the miners

<p style="text-align: justify;">David Villa returned to the headlines of the main Spanish media. This time the journalists did not talk about one of his frequent goals or stunning celebrations, it appears that fans didn’t even want to comment about soccer either, because they criticized, often crudely, the Spanish striker for having sent a signed shirt to the relatives of the 33 Chilean miners, trapped in a mine 700 meters (2300ft) underground. Read More

Pentagon Eases Some Rules on Guantánamo Coverage

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Pentagon has agreed to revise some of the rules that have restricted what journalists are free to report on from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, resolving a conflict that peaked in May when four reporters were expelled from the naval base there. Read More

Quito Chosen as 2011 American Capital of Culture

<p style="text-align: justify;">The International Bureau of Capitals of Culture has chosen Quito as the 2011 American Capital of Culture, according to the group's president, Spaniard Javier Tudela. Read More

Venezuela FM Maduro is Bank of ALBA Governor

<p style="text-align: justify;">Venezuela appointed FM Nicolas Maduro governor of the Bank of the Bolivarian Alliance for the People''s of Our America (ALBA), replacing Cesa Augusto Giral, in office since July 2009. Read More

Protests Against Roma Expulsions Held in France

<p style="text-align: justify;">Tens of thousands attended rallies in Paris and 130 other French cities and towns to protest at the government's policy of deporting Roma people. Police estimated the turnout in Paris at about 12,000, but organizers put the figure nearer to 50,000. Read More

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