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The U.S. ambassador in Caracas, Patrick Duddy, said Wednesday that the government is seeking to “improve the relationship with Venezuela,” while reiterating the call for “dialogue” between Colombia and Venezuela in this moment of aion kinah. “We said that we seek to improve relations with Venezuela and we have not changed that,” said Duddy to media. Moreover, [ READ MORE ]
The U.S. financial CIT, which specializes in loans to students and small businesses, has filed for bankruptcy, in which is the fifth largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. However, managers are still negotiating the company’s viability. Bankruptcy is also the most important sector in the United States from Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the height of [ READ MORE ]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will focus on the demands of a UN support to the table that does not respond to win the recent elections, which U. S. U.S. Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton said she understood from within the watchdog, confirmed that Karzai does not win yet won enough votes to be valid [ READ MORE ]
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is meeting Russian leaders to seek support for a tougher stance on Iran’s controversial nuclear programme. Mrs Clinton, in Moscow at the end of a European tour, is having talks with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. She has warned that the world will not “wait indefinitely” for proof that Iran is not [ READ MORE ]
BANGKOK – Asian stock markets mostly rose Tuesday after the U.S. services industry, a mainstay of the world’s No. 1 economy, showed its first growth in a year and Australia’s central bank raised interest rates. Gains in Japan were tempered as the dollar weakened against the yen, weighing on exporter stocks. Oil prices inched higher, taking [ READ MORE ]
President Barack Obama will not walk away from the war in Afghanistan, signaling the White House said Thursday amid an intense debate on the management decisions that could help define his presidency, in his first year as commander in chief. The savage attack by the Taliban, that has killed eight U.S. soldiers at the weekend to [ READ MORE ]
THE Sunset Tower Hotel, once a dilapidated dump but now a power-broker capital in Hollywood, recently hired a detective. After all, a crime had been committed — at least in the eyes of its owner, Jeff Klein. When US Weekly reported in August that Renée Zellweger and her new beau had guzzled Champagne in a Sunset [ READ MORE ]
The Indonesian Army on Saturday finally reached some of the areas worst hit by Wednesday’s earthquake, bringing two desperately needed tractors to unearth people and houses buried in landslides that swept away entire villages here. One of the tractors promptly broke down. [ READ MORE ]