News Agency Says Venezuela Office Closed
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A French news agency said Tuesday it had closed its office in Venezuela due to a labor dispute, but journalists are challenging the action and have continued reporting for work.
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A key state prosecutor may have been killed when his car exploded in Venezuela, officials fear.
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On Sunday, Venezuelans will decide whether to cut short the president's term, which is due to end in 2006.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez froze ongoing bilateral accords and energy deals with  Colombia on Friday in retaliation for the abduction of a  leading Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez on Friday froze bilateral accords and business deals  with Colombia in retaliation for a Colombian police operation  that abducted a top Colombian Marxist rebel from Venezuela.
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MIAMI -- The Miami Herald's publisher resigned Tuesday, citing the recent revelation that some journalists with its Spanish-language sister paper El Nuevo Herald were paid to appear on U.S.-government broadcasts aimed at promoting democracy in Cuba.
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PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez said on Sunday the final resolution to the worst  diplomatic dispute between Venezuela and Colombia in years will  depend on the outcome of a meeting between the two countries'  presidents this week.
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Venezuela will give Haiti US$1 million (euro810,000) to help the French-speaking Caribbean country recover from Tropical Storm Jeanne, which left at least 620 people dead and caused major damage last weekend, an official said
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Venezuelan authorities accuse a TV channel of inciting the murder of the president, a day after closing another station.
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US oil giant Exxon Mobil says courts have frozen $36bn of Venezuela's assets in its dispute with the government.
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Venezuelan troops have seized the anti-government television channel's broadcast equipment, the station said on Sunday, ahead of a controversial midnight EDT/0400 GMT takeover by President Hugo Chavez that will take the broadcaster off the air.
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By Patrick Markey CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President HugoChavez pressed for a new anti-terrorism proposal on Saturdayafter a car bomb killed a top state prosecutor investigatingopponents accused of backing a 2002 coup against him.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez and his government are ready to meet President Bush and  U.S. administration officials to try to improve relations  following Chavez's referendum win, Venezuela's Foreign Minister  said on Wednesday.
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Venezuela's ambassador to Panama, Flavio Granados, said late on Friday his country had asked him to leave Panama after statements made by its leader in the midst of a diplomatic scandal involving Cuba.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq The Iraqi government has pulled the plug on the pan-Arab TV channel al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera&#39;s Baghdad operations have been ordered closed indefinitely.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A car bomb killed a top  Venezuelan prosecutor investigating opponents of President Hugo  Chavez who were accused of backing a 2002 coup attempt against  the leftist leader, officials said on Friday.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A Venezuelan prosecutor  probing a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez was killed by  a car bomb that the government blamed Friday on radical  opponents it said were training in the United States.