Prosecutor Feared Dead in Venezuela Blast
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A bomb exploded early Friday in a pickup truck owned by a prosecutor who is pressing charges against supporters of the failed 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez, and a charred body inside appears to be that of the prosecutor, the government said.
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The prosecutor called it "one of the most chilling plots imaginable." But the rhetoric may not match the charges
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THE CRIME: A car bomb killed a prosecutor preparing a case against nearly 400 people who backed a 2002 coup attempt to oust President Hugo Chavez.
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KABUL -- A doctor helping organize Afghan elections died yesterday along with four other civilians when an explosion tore through their vehicle, police said.
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The Venezuelan government Friday described as &quot;brutal act of terrorism&quot; an explosion that killed a state prosecutor who is leading a probe into backers of Venezuela&#39;s coup in 2002.
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CARACAS, Venezuela  - Venezuela's President Hugo  Chavez pressed for a new anti-terrorism proposal on Saturday  after a car bomb killed a top state prosecutor investigating  opponents accused of backing a 2002 coup against him.
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A lawyer for Saddam Hussein said one of his witnesses had been killed and complained of restrictions on the case.
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The motive behind the murder of an Italian woman in the Venezuelan islands of Los Roques remains a mystery for authorities investigating the case that has stunned inhabitants of this Caribbean archipelago.
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CARACAS  - A car bomb killed deputy attorney general Danilo Anderson, who had been prosecuting politically sensitive cases, in Venezuela&#39;s first assassination in 40 years, officials said.
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Three labor leaders killed in what an army commander claimed was a gunbattle were instead murdered by soldiers, Colombian prosecutors are now saying in a case highlighting U.S. concerns over Colombia's human rights record.
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A rebel whose capture in Venezuela has touched off a diplomatic crisis with Colombia believed that he was going to be killed by his captors, his lawyer said Tuesday.
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By Fabian Andres Cambero CARACAS, Venezuela  - As the setting sun castslong shadows over a Caracas cemetery, crime-weary Venezuelanspray at the tomb of the notorious thief Ismael, believing heand other dead gangsters can protect them against violentattacks and robberies.
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The claim comes after an investigation into the death of a 22-year-old who died after his cell phone apparently exploded.
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A body found along the Venezuelan coast was identified as the co-pilot of a plane that crashed into the sea earlier this month, but the other 13 people on board remain missing, including eight Italians and a Swiss citizen.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A car bomb ripped through eastern Beirut on Friday, killing Lebanon's top anti-terrorism investigator as he returned from a meeting on the probe into the 2005 assassination of a former prime minister, authorities said. Three others died in the blast.
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The minister said the attack was aimed at halting prosecutions led by Anderson against several hundred opposition politicians, lawyers and former military officers accused of supporting Chavez&#39;s short-lived ouster in the 2002 coup.