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Fistfights broke out in Venezuela's parliament on Tuesday during an angry session linked to the South American nation's bitter election dispute.
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April 14- Venezuelan acting President Nicolas Maduro and opposition candidate Henrique Capriles square off in Sunday's election to determine who will succeed socialist leader Hugo Chavez, who died of cancer last month.
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CARACAS, April 14- Fresh flowers were placed and new candles burning on Sunday at the "Saint Hugo Chavez" shrine in Caracas where devotees of the late socialist leader prayed for his last wishes to be fulfilled in the presidential vote.
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CARACAS, April 14- Venezuelans decide on Sunday whether to honor Hugo Chavez's dying wish for a longtime loyalist to continue his hardline socialism or hand power to a young challenger vowing business-friendly changes.
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James Lockhart-Smith, head of Latin America at Maplecroft, tells CNBC that the Venezuelan economy will continue to struggle after the elections.
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*Maduro faces Capriles in election on Sunday. CARACAS, April 11- The late Hugo Chavez's self-declared socialist revolution will be put to the test at a presidential election on Sunday that pits his chosen successor against a younger rival promising change in the nation he polarized.
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CARACAS, April 10- Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles denied on Wednesday accusations from acting President Nicolas Maduro that he would scrap popular welfare policies if he wins Sunday's election.
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CARACAS, April 10- Venezuelan opposition candidate Henrique Capriles denied on Wednesday accusations from acting President Nicolas Maduro that he would scrap popular welfare policies if he wins Sunday's election.
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BEIJING- European aid groups operating in North Korea might have to hand-carry cash into Pyongyang or stop work altogether if Washington convinces the European Union to sanction the reclusive country's main foreign exchange bank, aid workers said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, April 9- Petrobras, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, is considering partnerships with billionaire Eike Batista's EBX Group in ports and other services, Petrobras CEO Maria das Graças Foster said on Tuesday.
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CARACAS, April 9- Acting President Nicolas Maduro promised on Tuesday to hike Venezuela's minimum wage by about 40 percent if he is elected in a weekend vote to replace late socialist leader Hugo Chavez.
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SEOUL- North Korea intensified threats of an imminent conflict against the United States and the South on Tuesday, warning foreigners to evacuate South Korea to avoid being dragged into "thermonuclear war".
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*Note: Election law forbids publication of polls in Venezuela a week before April 14 vote. CARACAS, April 8- Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed on Monday to stamp out corruption following days of accusations by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles that ruling party officials were plundering the country's oil wealth.
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CARACAS, April 8- Acting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed on Monday to stamp out corruption following days of accusations by opposition candidate Henrique Capriles that ruling party officials were plundering the country's oil wealth.
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CARACAS, April 8- Acting President Nicolas Maduro may struggle to advance the late Hugo Chavez's socialist policies if he wins Venezuela's election on Sunday, lacking both his predecessor's iron grip on a disparate ruling coalition and the robust state finances that cemented his rule.
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CARACAS, April 5- Venezuela's leading beer and food company, Empresas Polar, responded sharply on Friday to renewed government criticism, saying the state currency board owed it $141 million and was delaying the release of dollars for up to 200 days.
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CARACAS, April 5- Venezuela said on Friday it raided an office containing the local representation of U.S.-based brokerage Oppenheimer& Co. on suspicion of illegal foreign currency trading.
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CARACAS, April 3- Venezuela's acting President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Henrique Capriles square off in an April 14 vote to succeed late leader Hugo Chavez. *Maduro entered politics in 2000 as a legislator in the National Assembly, where his combative defense of Chavez's policies made him one of the president's proteges.
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JERUSALEM- Israel pressed Hamas on Wednesday to rein in rocket-firing militants in the Gaza Strip after the most serious outbreak of cross-border hostilities since a ceasefire ended an eight-day war in November.
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UNITED NATIONS- The 193- nation U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved the first treaty on the global arms trade, which seeks to regulate the $70 billion business in conventional arms and keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers.
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CARACAS, March 22- Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA's 2012 revenue slipped 0.2 percent from the year before despite an increase in oil prices as the company sold more fuel on the subsidized domestic market, the oil minister said Friday.