U.S. Rejects Venezuela's Kidnap Charges
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The State Department on Monday night denied Venezuelan allegations that the United States had a role in the capture of a Colombian leftist rebel leader who was using Venezuela as a base of operations.
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Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says a US investigation has rejected allegations that Australian terror suspect David Hicks was abused while in US custody in Afghanistan and Cuba.
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The United States is opposed to negotiations with hostage-takers who abducted three United Nations staffers in Afghanistan last month, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said.
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The government will not permit future international missions to win the release of rebel-held hostages after an effort led by Venezuela last month failed to retrieve three captives, Colombia's foreign minister said Monday.
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The Venezuelan government has no immediate plans to buy Russian submarines, the defense minister told the state news agency Friday, denying a Russian newspaper report.
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President Alvaro Uribe said Saturday that he has forbid government officials from discussing a dispute with Venezuela over the abduction of a Marxist guerrilla on Venezuelan soil.
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Russia rejects US criticism of plans to strengthen central government control in the wake of the Beslan siege.
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The United States on Tuesday rejected the saying that it had held contacts with Hamas as a leader of the radical Palestinian group has claimed.
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A US Food and Drug Administration official said Friday &quot;we categorically reject&quot; accusations the agency has failed to protect the public against dangerous drugs.
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The United States on Wednesday  rejected Cuba's demand to remove Christmas lights in front of  the American mission in Havana, saying the display shows  solidarity with local prisoners of conscience.
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BERLIN -- The State Department's top lawyer said yesterday that the United States would refuse to extradite CIA officers who face kidnapping charges in Italy, saying European criminal prosecutions of US agents were harming trans-Atlantic counterterrorism efforts. An Italian court issued indictments against 25 CIA operatives and a US Air Force officer on Feb. 16, charging them with kidnapping a ...
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The United States said on Thursday  it was troubled by Russian plans to sell Venezuela arms that  U.S. officials suggest could be used to aid leftist guerrillas  in Latin America.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela Friday dismissed  as "impertinence" U.S. criticism of its plans to buy Russian  rifles and helicopters and suggested Washington was just sore  it was not buying U.S. weapons.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's left-wing  President, Hugo Chavez, branded the U.S. a "terrorist state" on  Saturday and rejected as meddling Washington's criticism of a  recent arms purchase from Russia.
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A top U.S. diplomat warned Friday that Venezuela cannot afford to drive away the major oil companies affected by President Hugo Chavez's decision to takeover the nation's most promising oil-producing operations.
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Major U.S. allies on Thursday rejected a claim by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan that the war in Iraq was "illegal" because Washington and its coalition partners never got Security Council backing for the ...
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Venezuela's information minister on Saturday criticized a U.S. plan to withdraw support for &#36;250 million in loan requests by his country because of its alleged role in the international trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation.