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Venezuela closes border with Colombia over currency smuggling
Dec 13, 2016 05:23Venezuela’s president has ordered a three-day closure of the border with Colombia in a bid to fight “mafias” involved in currency smuggling amid soaring inflation in the South American state.
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Venezuelan govt., opposition resume tense talks to resolve crisis
Nov 12, 2016 04:56The Venezuelan government and its opposition rivals have resumed tense, Vatican-backed talks to resolve the stalemate over dealing with the country’s economic crisis and food shortages.
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Venezuela pres. rejects opposition ‘ultimatums’
Nov 04, 2016 04:56Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has rejected a deadline set by the opposition to possibly quit talks and return to street protests if its conditions are not met.
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Venezuela government, opposition hold talks amid tensions
Oct 31, 2016 08:47Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has started talks with a group of opposition leaders in an effort to end the country’s political crisis and economic woes.
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Opposition-led Venezuela congress plans to bring Pres. Maduro to trial
Oct 24, 2016 03:00Venezuela's National Assembly has vowed to prosecute Nicolas Maduro for what it described as “violating democracy” after electoral officials suspended a recall referendum campaign that opposition parties had mounted against the South American country’s leader.
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Iran supports measures aimed at stabilizing oil market: President Rouhani
Oct 22, 2016 16:11President Hassan Rouhani says the Islamic Republic supports any measures aimed at restoring stability to global oil markets.
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Oil price drop leverage to pressure US-independent states: Ayatollah Khamenei
Oct 22, 2016 15:59Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the decrease in global oil prices was leverage to exert pressure on countries that are independent from the United States.
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Venezuela president to visit Iran for oil talks
Oct 21, 2016 11:48Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro plans to pay a visit to Iran as part of his tour of various oil-producing countries to help stabilize the international oil market.
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Venezuelans march in support of Maduro’s budget plan
Oct 19, 2016 05:40Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Venezuelan capital to express support for President Nicolas Maduro’s 2017 budget, which has bypassed parliamentary review.
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President Rouhani phone conversation with Maduro over oil prices
Oct 04, 2016 02:04President Hassan Rouhani says oil producing countries must take decisions to increase the oil price at international markets.