Venezuela Revels in Fireworks Celebrations
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Whistling rockets streak through the sky each night, and firecrackers still echo through the streets in Venezuela this holiday season despite a long-standing ban and a new effort by authorities to crack down on the tradition.
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A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney. Summer Olympics organizers hosted dance and music in Beijing. And rare celebrations resounded in war-torn Baghdad.
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Gazans danced in the streets, honked car horns and set off fireworks to celebrate a Hamas-Fatah power-sharing deal they hope will avert civil war.
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BOGOTA, Colombia, Jan. 10 -- Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez said that two women held by Colombian rebels for years were handed over to his government Thursday, triggering celebrations in this country. By early afternoon, they were being flown out of a Colombian jungle to be reunited with family...
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Fireworks explode over Sydney&#39;s Harbor at 9pm local time (1100 GMT) in the first of two fireworks displays to welcome in the New Year, Friday, Dec. 31, 2004.
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A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney, Australia Â one of the first cities to celebrate the New Year. Beijing started the year with fireworks, singing and dancing put on by the organizers of the Summer Olympics.
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Hugo Ch&#225;vez's victory caps off the region's year of elections, but in many ways, Venezuela stands alone.
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Revelers from Times Square to downtown Los Angeles welcomed 2005 amid elaborate celebrations that included dazzling fireworks, laser lights and music.
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By Pascal Fletcher CARACAS, Venezuela  - Supporters of VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chavez celebrated Columbus Day on Tuesday bytoppling a statue in Caracas of the explorer whom Chavez blamesfor ushering in a "genocide" of native Indians.
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Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.
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BUENOS AIRES, March 9 -- Argentina provided the microphone, the stadium and thousands of fired-up spectators in the mood to hear some thunderous, fist-pumping, anti-American sloganeering. Venezuela's Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez took care of the rest.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - The 2004 Athens Paralympics didn&#39;t finish with a dazzling fireworks display like its Olympic predecessor, but with a dignified and sometimes solemn Closing Ceremony.
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Baseball-crazed Venezuelans celebrated pitcher Johan Santana&#39;s award as the American League Cy Young winner on Thursday. Honking car horns as they heard the news on the radio and glued to television
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Tens of thousands of Venezuelans took to the streets Saturday chanting "Freedom, Freedom!" to protest President Hugo Chavez's decision not to renew the broadcast license of the country's most-watched TV station, an outlet for the opposition.
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Crime has soared in Venezuela. Yet President Hugo ChÃ¡vez appears headed to re-election on Sunday.
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The Venezuelan president causes a stir with his U.N. attack on Bush - and that's just the way the leftist leader likes it
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The upcoming Christmas holiday will be a memorable one for Venezuelan President Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, he will spend it in snow-covered Beijing.