Venezuela TV station says troops seized equipment
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Venezuelan troops have seized an 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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Venezuela blamed drug-trafficking paramilitary fighters Saturday for a jungle ambush which killed six Venezuelan soldiers and an oil engineer near the border with Colombia.
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The Venezuelan government has opened an investigation into news broadcasters for allegedly inciting the Venezuelan public to violence over the government's decision not to renew the broadcast license of an opposition television station.
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Colombian rebels blame military operations for blocking the release of hostages, Venezuela's president says.
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CARACAS -- A top Colombian rebel captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela, possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said yesterday. Through his statement, Venezuela's government appeared to be moving toward asserting that Rodrigo Granda, the foreign relations chief of Colombia's FARC rebel group, was kidnapped in the ...
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - A top Colombian rebel  captured last month was apparently abducted from Venezuela,  possibly by Colombian security officials in a serious violation  of Venezuelan sovereignty, Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse  Chacon said on Wednesday.
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Venezuela's opposition-aligned RCTV has started cable broadcasts  after losing its terrestrial licence.
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CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuelan police fired tear gas and plastic bullets yesterday into a crowd of thousands protesting President Hugo Ch&#xE1;vez's decision that forced a television station critical of his leftist government off the air.
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Gaza City - A group of men armed with assault rifles and revolvers kidnapped an employee of US television channel CNN in Gaza City late on Monday, CNN and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Al-Jazeera television says an &quot;armed group&quot; announced it kidnapped the director of CARE International&#39;s operation in Iraq.
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ALTAGRACIA DE ORITUCO, Venezuela  - Venezuelan police swooped on an ambulance used by robbers escaping a bank siege on Tuesday, arresting all four men and freeing a group of captives to end a two-day hostage standoff.
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Venezuelan forces told to prepare for US invasion.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA said on Saturday an "operational event," which witnesses said was an explosion, had affected a unit of the 640,000 barrel per day (bpd) Amuay refinery.
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Venezuela says it is investigating claims that a Colombia rebel leader was seized on its territory.
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Sudanese police seized a large quantity of weapons and explosives Friday and detained one person during raids linked to an alleged coup attempt, a security authority statement said.
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Troops in Fiji have seized the weapons of the island nation's only armed police unit amid soaring tensions over a threatened military coup.
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Al-Jazeera satellite channel aired on Wednesday a videotape showing an unidentified rebel group claiming to have kidnapped 20 Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah, where US and Iraqi troops have launched a major assault over recent days.