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WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 10:41am neoform

Yahoo News -- Venezuela's Congress on Wednesday granted President Hugo Chavez powers to rule by decree for 18 months as he tries to force through nationalizations key to his self-styled leftist revolution... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jan 19, 2007 @ 12:16pm neoform

BBC News -- Venezuela's National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting the president the power to bypass congress and rule by decree for 18 months... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 27, 2006 @ 9:28am mrmdc

TheSun.co.uk -- THE break-up of the United Kingdom became a stark possibility last night as thousands of English and Scottish voters demanded home rule... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Apr 4, 2008 @ 8:11am neoform

SF Gate -- Hundreds of veterans of Zimbabwe's guerrilla war for black rule marched through the capital Friday in an ominous sign that President Robert Mugabe might turn to intimidation and violence to stave off an electoral threat to his 28-year rule. Police esco.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Pakistan's Supreme Court is to rule on whether a government amnesty lifting corruption charges against former PM Benazir Bhutto is legal. The amnesty was one of Ms Bhutto's conditions for her return to Pakistan next Thursday ahead of a possible power s.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 8:05am neoform

USA Today -- Pakistan marked the 60th anniversary of its independence from British rule Tuesday amid a political crisis facing the country's U.S.-allied president and surging militant violence. Artillery guns boomed at daybreak in Islamabad, and military cadets hel.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:32am neoform

Al Jazeera -- Ali Ahmed Kurd, a lawyer on Chaudhry's legal team, told opposition party workers in Taxila, a town on the way: "The constitution gives the people of Pakistan the right to rule the country. We will no longer allow any army general to rule the country.".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed May 9, 2007 @ 2:12pm neoform

Al Jazeera -- The first-round vote on April 9 brought complaints of widespread irregularities, stoking concerns of instability in the poor nation still struggling to heal divisions after its bloody separation from Indonesian rule. Counting from this second round wi.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 17, 2006 @ 10:33am mrmdc

BBC News -- Former Uruguayan President Juan Maria Bordaberry has been arrested in connection with four political killings during military rule in the 1970s... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 12:06am neoform

CTV -- Iraq's appeals court is expected to rule on former Iraqi dictator's Saddam Hussein's guilty verdict and death sentence by mid-January of next year... Read More