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UPDATE 1-Venezuelas Petrovictoria to pump 120000 bpd in 2016
Thu May 23, 2013 3:00pm EDT JOSE, Venezuela May 23 (Reuters) - Venezuela's Petrovictoria, a joint venture between state oil company PDVSA and Russia's Rosneft, will start production in 2016 and reach 120,000 barrels per day, PDVSA said on Thursday. The joint venture will produce ultra-heavy crude from the vast Orinoco Belt, a large deposit of oil in the Orinoco River basin of ...
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FARC open to public debate about rebels’ role in Colombia’s 2014 elections
Colombia’s largest rebel group, the FARC, on Thursday said to be open to the possibility of holding a public debate on their role in the upcoming 2014 ...
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Brazil Finance Minister Announces Budget Cuts
Share/Bookmark Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega announced yesterday that the country will cut 28bn reales (US$13.7 bn) in spending for this year's budget, mainly due to slower economic growth than ...
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UN World Bank Say Development is Key to Congo Peace
GOMA -- United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has been visiting the war-weary city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), accompanied by the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim. Both men stressed they see investing in development as the way out of Congo’s conflicts. The front lines outside Goma were silent on Thursday morning as Ban and Kim conducted their ...
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New Standards Approved for Extractive Industries
New performance standards have been announced (5/23) for oil, gas and mining companies, requiring them to be much more transparent in their business dealings. to De Capua report on extraction industries The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative approved the new performance standards at a meeting in Sydney, Australia. Created in 2003, the initiative includes government, ...
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Star Trek Influence Lives Long and Prospers
WASHINGTON -- Academics, professionals and Star Trek fans are once again discussing the iconic franchise's influence on society, science, and technology, as the dazzling new sci-fi ...
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Singer Piaf Songwriter Georges Moustaki Dies at 79
PARIS -- French singer and songwriter Georges Moustaki, beloved in France for his songs celebrating liberty and collaborations with Edith Piaf, died on Thursday after a long illness. He was 79. The Greek-born singer grew up in Alexandria, Egypt, and arrived in Paris in 1951, where he began to play guitar at nightclubs and met some of the period's best-known singers. He was introduced ...
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Cayman opposition will lead coalition govt
A former Cayman Islands premier who faces 11 criminal charges and was ousted from leadership last year went into Wednesday's general elections with an outside chance of returning to power in the British Overseas ...
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Brazil - Brazilian court upholds ban on development protestor
ARTICLE 19 is disappointed with the decision of a court in Sao Paulo to uphold a ban against a protester who has been campaigning against a property development in the city. The Court of Justice in the State of So Paulo has approved an injunction against the engineer and community activist Ricardo Fraga Oliveira, founder of the Movement for the Other Side of the Wall campaign.Fraga, who is a ...
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Latin American leaders unite in Colombia for Pacific Alliance summit
The heads of state of Chile, Mexico and Peru arrived in Colombia Thursday for the 7th Summit of the Pacific Alliance, a trade block of Latin American countries on the ...
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Syrian Opposition Figure Offers Transition Plan
A prominent Syrian opposition figure has proposed a transition plan for the war-torn country, requiring President Bashar al-Assad to hand power to a senior aide and leave the country with 500 ...
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US One Drone Victim Was Intent on Anti-American Terrorism
U.S. law enforcement officials say that one of the four Americans it now acknowledges killing in drone strikes was a young man who left the country for Pakistan intent on engaging in violent terrorism against the United States. Jude Kenan Mohammad had not been previously identified in news media reports as being killed by a U.S. drone attack, unlike three other Americans the government on ...
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Florida FBI Shooting May Be Linked to Boston Area Triple Slaying
U.S. news reports say a Chechen man killed in an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that may have been connected to dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan ...
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Religious Award Sparks Indonesia Protest
JAKARTA -- Leading religious figures in Indonesia have come out against a U.S.-based interfaith group's plan to award President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's support for religious freedom. They said it sends the wrong message about a country where religious minorities face increasing violence and persecution. Minority faiths in Indonesia are under attack. Local governments have been ...
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Massive fuel-depot fire breaks out in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO -; A massive fire broke out Thursday at a fuel depot on the northern outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, sending bright orange flames leaping high into the air and thick black smoking rolling upward and enveloping the ...
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A year later U.S. trade with Colombia grows while anxiety mounts
WASHINGTON -- At the Colombian Embassy in Washington, Ambassador Carlos Urrutia says there’s no doubt that his country’s trade deal with the U.S. has paid off: Colombian businesses are sending more socks and cosmetics to California, beet sugar to New York and glass to Florida to help with hurricane repairs.U.S. officials are equally excited, saying U.S. businesses have improved ...
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Ecuador - Slow progress on free expression in Ecuador one year after U.N. review
Exactly one year ago, on 21 May 2012, Ecuador submitted to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the Human Rights Council of the UN, in Geneva, Switzerland. As a result of this second review 134 observations were received, 24 of them directly related to the right to freedom of expression; 18 States expressed their concern about the situation of this fundamental freedom in our country.In the ...
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Peru - Radio programme critical of mayor taken off the air in Peru
On 15 May 2013, the news program "Huaraz Noticias en Radio", broadcast by radio Alpamayo in Huaraz, and presented and directed by Gudelia Armida Glvez Tafur and Rosa Roque Daz, was unexpectedly taken off the air. This took place in the Ancash region of northeastern Peru.The radio journalists told IPYS that the radio station's owners, the evangelist group Vid Verdadera, simply ...
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Brazils ViaVarejo CEO quits cites Po de Acar meddling-letter
SAO PAULO | Thu May 23, 2013 12:22pm EDT SAO PAULO May 23 (Reuters) - The former chief executive of Brazilian appliance and furniture retailer ViaVarejo said on Thursday he quit because of strategic differences with executives of the controlling Grupo Po de Acar, according to his resignation letter that Reuters obtained. Antonio Ramatis Rodrigues took the helm at ViaVarejo just six ...
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19000 children missing in Colombia
Some 19,000 children are missing in Colombia, authorities said Wednesday. More than 4,000 unidentified remains of children have been found in mass graves and are being ...
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Ecuador satellite collides with Russian space junk
A small Ecuadoran satellite collided in orbit with the remains of a Russian rocket, but it is too soon to know how much damage it might have sustained, Quito's space agency said ...
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Killing of British soldier stirs tension in poor corner of London
LONDON (Reuters) - The gory killing of a British soldier at the hands of two suspected Islamist militants has shone a spotlight on Woolwich, the London district where it happened, stirring racial tensions in one of the most ethnically diverse parts ...
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Brazil oil prospect Libra has up to 42 bln barrels of oil -ANP
RIO DE JANEIRO | Thu May 23, 2013 11:40am EDT RIO DE JANEIRO May 23 (Reuters) - Brazil's Libra prospect in the subsalt area that will be auctioned in the second half of October has between 26 billion and 42 billion barrels of in-place oil, Magda Chambriard, director of the ANP oil agency said on Thursday. "This is really different; it's very big," she said of a column ...
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Global Advocacy Group Urges Pakistan to Protect Press
ISLAMABAD -- A U.S.-based international press watchdog organization is calling for the incoming Pakistan government led by Nawaz Sharif to take urgent steps to stem "the murderous silencing" of the press by bringing to justice those who have attacked journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists said many reporters killed in Pakistan during the past decade were targeted and ...
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Gay Rights Activist Held in China
BEIJING -- A young gay rights activist was detained last week in the southern city of Changsha, following a rally organized by local groups to mark an international day against homophobia, his lawyer said. The man, 19-year-old Xiang Yuhan, was taken into custody early Saturday after police came to his hotel room. "He’s been put under administrative detention for 12 days on ...
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