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  • Bolivia Venezuela collaborate in search for oil

    Petroandina, a 60/40 joint venture of Bolivian state oil company YPFB and Venezuelan counterpart PDVSA, will invest an additional $35 million this year in a search for oil and gas in La Paz province. That investment will bring to $151 million the total amount devoted to the Lliquimuni project since the beginning of 2011, YPFB said. Lliquimuni, located in northern La Paz province, may hold as ...

  • Futures Movers Oil prices struggle on energy demand Fed worries

    LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- U.S. crude-oil futures fell Thursday, as the market grappled with weak manufacturing-activity figures from China, an increase in U.S. oil supply and signaling by the Federal Reserve that a reduction in monetary stimulus is in ...

  • Venezuelan leading university attacked buses torches

    PanARMENIAN.Net - A group of masked assailants has attacked a leading university in the Venezuelan capital, torching two buses and seriously damaging its rectory building, The Associated Press reported. Amalio Belmonte, the secretary-general of the Central University of Venezuela, said about 20 people invaded the campus and shot firearms into the air Wednesday, June 19 afternoon. Belmonte said ...

  • Venezuela to Boost Domestic Natural Gas Production

    Caracas, Jun 20 (Prensa Latina) The Venezuelan oil industry works to boost the production of natural gas, in order to extend the local consumption and exports of that resource. According to the state-run company Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), plans include increasing production at the oil field Perla in about 300 million cubic meters per day, by the end of 2014. The aforementioned field, ...

  • Venezuela - Venezuelan court stops judge from using social media

    On June 15, 2013, Marilda Ros, head judge at a Caracas court, issued a precautionary measure prohibiting Mara Lourdes Afiuni (a judge who was jailed pending a criminal suit) from speaking to the national and international media and expressing herself on social media. This prohibition was issued within the framework of the decision of granting her parole on account of health difficulties. Jos ...

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Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppolas Lost in Translation is a beautiful, lyrical cinematic ode to lost souls finding each in an unlikely place. In this case, it is a burnt-out movie star and a lonely young newlywed who strike up a relationship in downtown Tokyo, where they both feel isolated and alone, spiritually and culturally. The location setting in Tokyowith its technologically overdetermined neon gaudines ... ...

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  • Venezuela reports more H1N1 cases

    A total of 1,538 cases of infection with influenza A (H1N1) virus were reported across Venezuela by June 8, the Ministry of Health said Wednesday.The latest number marked an increase of 430 cases from the last official report, issued on June 12.The cases mainly concentrated in Venezuela's coastal and western states and districts, with Merida state leading with 867 cases and followed by ...

  • 10 injured in police-farmer clash in Colombia

    At least 10 people were injured Wednesday in a clash between farmers and police officers in northeast Colombia, a local police official said.Five police officers were among the injured in the Ocana-Costa Atlantica Highway clash that began at 6 am local time (1100 GMT), said Col. Eliecer Camacho, commander of the police department of the northeast Norte de Santander state.Riot police were sent to ...

  • Venezuela plane missing since 2008 found

    Venezuelan authorities announced Wednesday the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared in 2008 with 14 people on board has been found.Foreign Ministry press chief Jorge Galindo said the wreckage of the missing plane was found six miles (nine kilometers) off Los Roques archipelago at a depth of around 3,000 feet (900 meters).According to the Twitter posted by Attorney General Luisa ...

  • Peru Colombia agree to promote bilateral projects

    Authorities of both Peru and Colombia have agreed to promote bilateral development and cooperation projects till 2015, announced Luis Olivera, director of the Peruvian International Cooperation Agency (PICA), Wednesday.The agreement was reached at the seventh Meeting of the Peru- Colombia Joint Committee on Technical and Scientific Cooperation here Wednesday, Olivera said in a statement posted ...

  • Armed masked invaders torch buses building at Venezuela university amid funding protests

    CARACAS, Venezuela - A group of masked assailants has attacked a leading university in the Venezuelan capital, torching two buses and seriously damaging its rectory building. Amalio Belmonte is secretary-general of the Central University of Venezuela. He says about 20 people invaded the campus and shot firearms into the air Wednesday afternoon. Belmonte says they set one bus on fire near the ...

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