Chavez in talks with Iranian ally
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez holds talks in Tehran  with Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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President Hugo Chavez says the chief of Colombia's largest rebel group has contacted him as the Venezuelan leader seeks to mediate between the leftist guerrillas and Colombia's U.S.-allied government.
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Iran and Venezuela sign a host of agreements, as Iran's president visits the Latin American country.
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CIENFUEGOS, Cuba  - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met on Friday with a dozen leaders of Caribbean and Central American nations he is supplying with cheap oil that has bolstered his regional influence.
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Iran's president opened his nation's wallet to Bolivia on Thursday and then visited Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, in a post-U.N. trip to boost ties with Latin American leftists who are increasingly embracing Iran as a counterweight to U.S. influence.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said he was willing to meet guerrilla leaders in the Colombian jungle to broker a humanitarian accord between Colombia's government and leftist rebels.
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Ali Larijani, who quit as Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, and his replacement will go to talks on Tuesday with the European Union's Javier Solana on Tehran's standoff with the West.
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President Hugo Chavez' deputy welcomes a call by the American administration for improved ties with Venezuela.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Friday he planned to hold talks with Colombia's FARC guerrillas in Venezuela in an attempt to break a stalemate on freeing kidnap victims held for years by the Marxist rebels.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he is waiting to hear from Colombia's largest rebel group about two rebel-held hostages that the guerrillas promised to release to the leftist leader last month.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has offered assistance and oil benefits to much of the Caribbean, will meet with Haitian President Rene Preval to discuss providing aid to the impoverished country, Preval's office said Friday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez bolstered his cooperation with Cuba on Saturday by signing energy, farming and finance accords, including a deal to expand of one of his socialist ally's oil refineries.
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Iranian negotiators are meeting European officials to discuss plans to suspend Iran's nuclear programme.
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Venezuela plans talks with Panama next week on a proposal to pump oil through a Panamanian pipeline to the Pacific in order to cut shipping costs to China, the Venezuelan foreign minister said Wednesday.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offers neighbouring states the option to pay for oil with local produce.
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France's Total SA oil company is involved in talks with Venezuelan authorities to launch a $5 billion project to develop heavy oil in eastern Venezuela, the company's president said Friday.
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European Union foreign policy chief   Javier Solana will meet Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali   Larijani in Vienna on Saturday to discuss Tehran's reply to an   international offer of incentives to halt uranium enrichment,   Solana's spokeswoman said.