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  • Five Venezuelan cops die in chopper crash

    Five members of Venezuela's PNB national police force died Thursday when the helicopter they were using to pursue a group of kidnappers in a rural part of Caracas crashed, PNB director Luis Karabi said. The helicopter crashed in an uninhabited area near the Antimano neighbourhood in the northeastern part of the capital in conditions of very low visibility due to a thick fog that covered the ...

  • UPDATE 3-Oil prices set for biggest weekly drop since mid-April

    Fri May 24, 2013 5:09am EDT * Shrinking factory activity in China limits oil demand growth * Rosy U.S. economic data raise worries Fed may end stimulus soon * Gasoline demand over U.S. summer driving season may disappoint * Coming Up: U.S. durable goods orders; 1230 GMT (Updates previous SINGAPORE) LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Oil is poised to post its biggest weekly loss in more than a month, ...

  • South America re-election rash Ecuador’s Correa takes office for the third consecutive time

    Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa will be inaugurated on Friday for his third consecutive mandate, something which Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez just managed before his death, and something which Bolivia’s Evo Morales ...

  • 5 officers killed in helicopter accident in Venezuela

    Five officers from Venezuela's Bolivarian National Police (PNB), members of the crew of a police helicopter, were killed Thursday when their aircraft crashed in western Caracas during an operation to rescue two kidnapped engineers, official sources said. PNB Director Luis Karabin said that the accident occurred Thursday morning at 7:30 local time (1200 GMT) in the highway Mamera-El ...

  • Oil prices decline slightly on weak China data

    Oil prices dropped slightly on Thursday on disappointing manufacturing data from China. China's manufacturing activity in May contracted for the first time since last October, a preliminary survey from the HSBC showed. China is the second largest oil consumption nation in the world. The HSBC Flash Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for May slipped to 49.6, under the ...

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You, Me and Dupree

You, Me and Dupree

Like any other genre, comedy tends to run cycles, and for the past decade American comedies have gotten stuck into a rut that future film historians will most likely label the comedy of arrested development. Emasculated men have frequently been the center of comedy (see, for ex ... ...

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  • Venezuela prosecutor to open probe over leaked recording

    CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's prosecutor's office said on Thursday it would open an investigation into in a recording the opposition says features a top government ally accusing the deputy head of the ruling Socialist Party of corruption and conspiring against the new ...

  • Venezuela Russia in joint oil venture

    BARCELONA, Venezuela (AFP) - Venezuela and Russia formed a joint venture to produce 120,000 barrels of oil a day by 2016 in two fields in the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt.Russia will loan Venezuela $1.5 billion to finance the development of the fields under the terms of the agreement, and put up $1.1 billion for a 40 percent share in Petrovictoria.The agreement establishing Petrovictoria was signed by ...

  • Oil Prices Slip on China Data Fed Concerns

    U.S. crude futures dropped to around $94 a barrel on Friday after disappointing China data and on lingering concerns the U.S. Federal Reserve would curb its stimulus program. ...

  • WikiLeaks Evidence that the U.S. planned to overthrow President Chavez

    The documents were released by WikiLeaks on their Twitter accountAround 73 emails available on Wikileaks Global Intelligence Files online, show how Stratfor and Canvas set the routes that the right-wing would follow in order to topple Hugo ...

  • CEVA Logistics Names Barnett as Automotive VP for the Americas

    has appointed Jim Barnett as vice president of its automotive division for the Americas, effective immediately.Barnett will be based in Detroit and brings nearly 20 years of supply chain management and automotive manufacturing experience to this role. He joined the supply chain company in 2009 and for the last four years served as chief operating officer of CEVA's joint venture with Anji ...

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