Leader of strike to oust Chavez escapes
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A labor leader who led a failed oil strike to oust President Hugo Chavez has escaped from prison, prompting troops and police to secure ports, airports and embassies to prevent one of Venezuela's most prominent prisoners from fleeing country.
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LIMA, Peru  - The leader of a 200-strong armed  group that killed four policemen and seized part of a southern  Peruvian town in demanding the president resign said it will  hand over its weapons on Monday.
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President Hugo Chavez, who has repeatedly spoken of various plots on his life, said Saturday a sniper with a long-range gun and a motorcycle to escape on had planned to shoot him as he exited a helicopter on a recent trip to western Venezuela.
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The fugitive East Timor rebel leader attacked overnight in his mountain stronghold by an Australian-led international security force has disappeared, witnesses said Sunday.
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With only two weeks to go until election day, the radical leftist leader is fending off his opponents with a divide and conquer strategy
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CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez survived a referendum to oust him, according to results Monday, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and other election observers urged the opposition to accept the vote, deflating claims of fraud...
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KABULâA day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped a rocket attack on his helicopter, he slipped away from his US security guards and left the presidential
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Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was being flown out of Chile on Saturday to face charges of human rights abuse and corruption seven years after fleeing Peru for Japan.
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The alleged ringleader of an anti-government plot has fled Sudan, a senior official from his Popular Congress (PC) party said, after the authorities had spent weeks searching Khartoum for him.
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Workers who seized the headquarters of South Korean steelmaker Posco have agreed to leave, the Yonhap news agency reported Thursday. Earlier in the day, the office of South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun warned that the government may use force to expel the workers.
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Lech Walesa quits the Solidarity movement he led during its struggle against communism.
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HARARE : Zimbabwean immigration officials ordered a fact-finding mission from South Africa&#39;s biggest trade union movement to leave after they defied a government ban, the leader of the South African team said.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s interim successor has escaped uninjured after militants opened fire in a mourning tent for the dead leader. Mahmoud Abbas was whisked to safety after militants firing rifles burst in on the tent just after he arrived.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias left here Saturday afternoon for Jinan to start the second leg of his five-day China tour in east China&#39;s Shandong Province.
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Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marched through the capital Friday, commemorating a failed coup attempt he led as an army officer 13 years ago.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - The head of a panel  organizing elections in Haiti next year to replace ousted  president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has resigned, warning that  other panel members were trying to rig the ballot.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Anti-U.S. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez headed to re-election on Sunday, according to an exit poll linked to the government that said the leftist had a wide lead over his united opposition rival.