Venezuela Opposition Refuses Recall Audit
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Maintaining that a failed referendum to oust Venezuela's president was rigged against them, opposition leaders Wednesday refused to participate in a partial audit of the results as proposed by former President Jimmy Carter.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Three Venezuelan government  ministers, who did not want to be identified, said on Monday  that President Hugo Chavez had easily survived a referendum on  whether to recall him.
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Bulgaria's parliament rejected a no-confidence motion on Friday against the Socialist-led government, accused by the opposition of failing to carry out sound healthcare reforms and uproot corruption in the sector.
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The parliament stripped an opposition lawmaker of his immunity Saturday so he could be prosecuted again for war crimes, but it rejected prosecutors' request for his renewed detention.
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The head of Mexico's top electoral court recommended Saturday that the panel reject a request for a total recount of the nation's disputed presidential election.
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Viktor A. Yushchenko's opponent, Prime Minister Viktor F. Yanukovich, refused to accept the results and said he would challenge them in court.
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ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil refused to meet Venezuelaâs deadline for ceding control of major oil ventures, a move that could mean the loss of billions in investments.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans overwhelmingly voted to keep President Hugo Chavez in office, dealing a crushing defeat to a splintered opposition and allowing the leftist leader to convert one of the biggest challenges of his presidency into an even broader mandate to carry on his "revolution for the poor."   Stunned opposition leaders, who have fought for years to oust Chavez, claimed fraud after results announced Monday by election officials showed nearly 60 percent of voters had said "no" to the question of whether he should leave office immediately.    Scattered protests erupted in Caracas, despite an endorsement of the outcome by former President Carter and the Organization of American States...
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A French intelligence officer refuses to give evidence in the Clearstream corruption inquiry.
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People of Venezuela fight to keep cheap petrol as government remains wedded to subsidy
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The leftist president of Venezuela, backed by 58 percent of voters, easily rebuffed a recall referendum on Sunday. In the course of his political career, the 48-year-old former military officer has endured jail time and overcome two ...
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Efforts to unseat the democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, failed this weekend in a hotly contested recall vote that he appears to have won handily.
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A third party pulls out of Venezuela's opposition alliance after it failed to unseat President Hugo Chavez.
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CARACAS - Venezuelan leader Hugo ChÃ¡vez urged his foes to accept their defeat and move on yesterday, after an audit of last week&#39;s recall referendum confirmed the president&#39;s victory.
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President Hugo Chavez vowed to plow forward with his so-called &quot;revolution for the poor&quot; Sunday despite refusals by Venezuela&#39;s opposition to recognize his victory in a recall referendum last week.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's opposition on  Tuesday presented a video laying out details of its allegations  that leftist President Hugo Chavez won a recall referendum last  month by massive vote rigging.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - President Hugo Chavez's rival pledged to prevent fraud in Sunday's election as he coolly dismissed an alleged sniper plot to assassinate him that has fueled Venezuelans' fears of post-vote violence.