UN steps into US-Venezuela spat
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The UN is to investigate the detention of the Venezuelan foreign minister as he tried to leave New York.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reignited a war of words with Peruvian President-elect Alan Garcia on Friday, calling him a &quot;lap dog&quot; of the United States.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized the United States on Sunday for backing Colombia in a dispute over the abduction of a top Colombian rebel and said Washington was trying to divide Latin America.
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The State Department expressed concern Monday about reports that Venezuela is harboring leftist rebels from Colombia, and it urged the Caracas government to take action against any who are linked to U.S.-designated terrorist groups.
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UNITED NATIONS -- The United States demanded yesterday that the UN Security Council respond to Sudan's warning that any nation pledging UN troops for Darfur was committing a ``hostile act" and a ``prelude to an invasion."
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High-ranking US officials and lawmakers are pressuring the State Department to take a more punishing tone with Venezuela, at the risk of tossing &quot;red meat&quot; to President Hugo Chavez, who now rules by decree, experts told AFP.
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PANAMA CITY, June 4 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Venezuela's foreign minister on Monday fired verbal broadsides at each other here over the closure of a television station in Venezuela that has been critical of the government.
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Venezuela's president can improve ties by avoiding inflammatory remarks, the US State Department says.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez escalated the bitter war of words between Caracas and Bogota on Wednesday by accusing Colombia and the United States of plotting to kill him.
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UNITED NATIONS: The US signalled yesterday it wants a quick UN vote on a draft resolution aimed at preventing a second term for Lebanon&#39;s pro-Syrian president and calling for a withdrawal of Syrian forces from the Mideast nation.
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There was a stench at the United Nations, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday during his visit there, and President Bush was responsible for it. He wasted no time naming the odor. Eau-du-Satan tainted the lectern where Bush stood the day before, Chavez said. "The devil came here yesterday," he said. Making the sign of the cross, Chavez made another observation: "It smells of sulfur still today."
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan hailed on Tuesday the peaceful conduct of Venezuela&#39;s recent recall referendum on President Hugo Chavez&#39;s mandate and called on Chavez&#39;s supporters and opponents to ...
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President Hugo Chavez on Friday accused Colombia and the United States of plotting a military "aggression" against Venezuela.
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The verbal attacks Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched against President Bush should not affect diplomatic relations between the countries, the U.S. ambassador said Monday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grabbed headlines last week by blasting U.S. policies from the  dais of the U.N. General Assembly. But while their words were harsh, in many ways they merely expressed in bolder terms what a number of other...
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The United States presented a draft UN resolution that steps up the pressure on Sudan over the crisis in Darfur, including possible international sanctions against its oil sector.
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The State Department is accusing Cuba of training Colombian rebels and says it is troubled by a large presence of Cuban personnel in Venezuela, whose president, Hugo Chavez, is a close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro.