Officials Extend Venezuela Poll Hours Until Midnight
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Venezuelan electoral officials on Sunday extended voting hours for the recall referendum on the rule of left-wing President Hugo Chavez until 12 a.m. to accommodate massive voter turn out.
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Ukraine's president gives parliament an extra day to approve early elections to end a political stalemate.
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An Afghan militant group holding three  U.N. workers hostage extended their deadline until Saturday  night to allow the Afghan government and the United Nations to  hold talks, a spokesman for the group said.
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The countdown has begun for Venezuela's oldest private television station. At midnight Sunday, Radio Caracas Television &#151; the most widely watched channel &#151; will be forced off the air after President Hugo Chavez's government decided not to renew its license.
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The Afghan militant group holding three  U.N. workers hostage on Friday extended their deadline until  Saturday night to allow the Afghan government and the United  Nations to hold talks with them, a spokesman for the group  said.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - The opposition's long and bitter campaign to oust Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez finally came down to a recall referendum Sunday, with the leftist leader hoping a huge turnout among the poor will keep him in power.    Activists on both sides set off fireworks and blared recordings of bugle music to wake voters hours before dawn, hoping for a flood of early votes in their favor...
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The Iraqi interim government has decided to extend the curfew in Baghdad and its outskirts and revise the curfew&#39;s time, local newspaper Al Sabah reported on Wednesday.
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CARACAS, August 22 (Itar-Tass) -- President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez has called on the opposition to recognize the results of a referendum on confidence in the president held on August 15.
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Polling stations in Montgomery County will remain open an hour later than usual tonight, to accommodate voters who were turned away from the polls this morning because of a glitch that left computerized voting machines across the county inoperable.
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Zimbabwe's central bank chief extended a deadline Monday to exchange 200,000 dollar bills just hours before they were to cease being legal tender after scenes of chaos at banks across the country.
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After demanding an audit of voting results upon failing to oust President Hugo ChÃ¡vez in a recall referendum, representatives of Venezuela&#39;s opposition movement
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From a proposal for crime-detecting blimps to Chavez's proclamation to set the clocks back a half hour, can Venezuela get any weirder?
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Yankee imperialist time zone go home Venezuelan prez Hugo Chavez today postponed a scheme to secure his place in the pantheon of classic comedy Latin American despots by shifting back his country's clocks half an hour, Reuters reports.â¦
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President Hugo Chavez has proposed slashing Venezuela's working day to six hours to turn its socialist revolution into a paradise of leisure - with one exception.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants threatening to kill three UN hostages in Afghanistan have said they will extend the noon deadline so that talks can continue.
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VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia  - A Venezuelan helicopter mission to rescue three hostages held for years by Colombian rebels in jungle camps was delayed again on Saturday because guerrilla leaders have not given the final go-ahead.
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CARACAS -- The Venezuelan opposition yesterday refused to abandon its challenge to last Sunday's vote that gave a landslide victory to President Hugo Chavez, asserting that electronic voting machines must have been tampered with before voting began.