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Wednesday 29 May 2013
The American TV presenter Larry King signs up for new show with Russia Today. From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview programme Larry King Live on CNN.
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Toilet rolls run out: An inconvenience or move to destabilize Venezuela?
Thursday 16 May 2013
President blames anti-government forces for causing shortages
Trial of 'celebrity terrorist' Carlos the Jackal starts in confusion in Paris
Monday 13 May 2013
The 1970s “celebrity terrorist” Ilich Ramirez Sanchez – better known as “Carlos the Jackal” – complained on Monday that the Venezuelan government was trying to sabotage his appeal against life imprisonment in France.
The Conversation: Jon Lee Anderson, foreign correspondent
Saturday 11 May 2013
Your father was a diplomat and you had lived in, by my count, seven different countries by the time you were an adult. Can you imagine a life without travel?
Imran Khan is no ordinary political candidate. He represents the hopes and dreams of young Pakistan
Friday 10 May 2013
The reason Khan is so popular with young people is that he speaks the language of Pakistan's millions of disaffected youths; as an outsider with little political baggage
Venezuela’s President-elect Nicolas Maduro: Vote for me – or you’re cursed...
Sunday 07 April 2013
Venezuela’s President-elect Nicolas Maduro has claimed that a centuries-old curse will strike anyone who fails to vote for him in next week’s election.
Violence - and Hugo Chavez - loom large over race for power in Venezuela
Tuesday 02 April 2013
The battle to succeed El Comandante has begun
Venezuelan presidential rivals come out fighting in race to succeed Hugo Chavez
Tuesday 12 March 2013
Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun the election race with scathing personal attacks.
Justin Timberlake dresses up as Elton John to send up Hugo Chavez on Saturday Night Live...and hits back at Kanye West
Monday 11 March 2013
Justin Timberlake was happy to show the Saturday Night Live audience a few things this weekend.
From Castro to Ahmadinejad, a strange cast turns out for Chavez funeral
Saturday 09 March 2013
Tim Walker sees hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans bid last farewell to leader
Smudger Smith, the journeyman pro: Keano wasn't quite the only one to see red
Friday 08 March 2013
In a professional career spanning almost two decades, Simon "Smudger" Smith has played for over 67 clubs and has reinvented himself time and again, from poacher to holding midfielder, centre-back to goalkeeper.
Hugo Chavez's last words: 'I don’t want to die'
Thursday 07 March 2013
Hugo Chavez expressed his desire to live, and his love of Venezuela, shortly before dying of a massive heart attack, the head of the country’s presidential guard has claimed.
'We are all Hugo Chavez': supporters gather to pay tribute to Venezuela's dead President
Thursday 07 March 2013
Emotional crowds lined the streets of Caracas to watch el Comandante's coffin pass
Hollywood stars pay tribute to late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez
Wednesday 06 March 2013
America and Venezuela have not been the best of friends lately but Hollywood stars have been quick to pay tribute to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who died of cancer last night aged 58.
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