Simon Bolivar an obsession for Venezuela's Chavez (AP)

Simon Bolivar an obsession for Venezuela's Chavez (AP)

Simon Bolivar an obsession for Venezuela's Chavez (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:50 PM PDT

FILE - In this Feb. 10, 2010 file photo, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez sits in front of a painting of Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. For Chavez, Simon Bolivar is more than a founding father to be feted once a year on his birthday. He's the icon of an entire political movement, a muse whose words inspire nearly two centuries after his death. Simon Bolivar will be honored Saturday July 24, 2010 on the 227th anniversary of his birth. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)AP - For Hugo Chavez, Simon Bolivar is more than a founding father to be feted once a year on his birthday. He's the icon of an entire political movement. He's a muse whose words inspire nearly two centuries after his death.

Nigeria on alert for Taliban uprising anniversary (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 11:01 PM PDT

The bodies of alleged self-styled Nigerian Taliban soldiers killed on July 29, 2009 during a crossfire with solders in the northern city of Maiduguri. Police searched for weapons and residents were on edge here Saturday ahead of the one-year anniversary of a deadly uprising by the Nigerian Taliban, with fears it would strike again.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AFP - Police searched for weapons and residents were on edge here Saturday ahead of the one-year anniversary of a deadly uprising by the Nigerian Taliban, with fears it would strike again.

6.5 magnitude earthquake hits Philippines: USGS (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:54 PM PDT

Reuters - A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines on Saturday. 83 miles south southwest of Cotabato, Mindanao, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

6.5 magnitude earthquake hits Philippines: USGS

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:54 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines on Saturday. 83 miles south southwest of Cotabato, Mindanao, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Flooding tests China giant dam

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:34 PM PDT

Worst floods in decade set to worsen as Three Gorges dam is close to overflowing.

Australian govt consolidates lead over opposition: poll

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:33 PM PDT

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Labor government has consolidated its election-winning lead over the conservative opposition one week into the campaign for the August 21 election, a poll published on Saturday showed.

Mass grave discovered in Mexico

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 08:32 PM PDT

Soldiers find at least 21 bodies in a mass grave in part of northern Mexico at the centre of a violent battle between drug gangs.

NKorea vows nuclear response to US-SKorea drills (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:17 PM PDT

In a Thursday, July 22, 2010 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington look at damage to the Republic of Korea corvette (ROKS) Cheonan (PCC-772) at Pyeongtaek naval base The ship sank March 26 near Baengnyeong Island. The Republic of Korea and the United States are scheduled to conduct the combined alliance maritime and air readiness exercise 'Invincible Spirit' in the seas east of the Korean peninsula from July 25-28, 2010. North Korea on Friday, July 23, 2010 threatened the United States and South Korea with a 'physical response' to planned weekend naval exercises as tensions with the communist nation rose in the aftermath of the sinking of the South Korean warship blamed on the North. (AP Photo/Navy Visual News Service)AP - North Korea warned Saturday that joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend amount to a military provocation that will draw a "powerful" nuclear response from Pyongyang.

4 US troops die in bomb blast in south Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:54 PM PDT

United States Marines from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Marines watch the explosion after calling in an airstrike during a gunbattle as part of an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Four American service members were killed Saturday in a bombing in southern Afghanistan, where international forces are stepping up the fight against the Taliban, officials said.

Cambodia awaits verdict in Khmer Rouge tribunal (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:50 PM PDT

A Cambodian man touches leg restraints displayed at the the former Khmer Rouge's notorious S-21 prison now known as the Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to deliver its verdict on Monday, July 26, 2010, against Kaing Guek Eav, better know as Duch, the Khmer Rouge prison chief accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, murder and torture. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)AP - Hav Sophea's father was killed by the Khmer Rouge just after she was born and she's spent a lifetime trying to make him feel real. She even took the single photo she had of him — a black-and-white mugshot snapped at the regime's notorious prison — and used a computer to insert him into a family portrait.

Panamanian police identify body of US woman (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:07 PM PDT

AP - Panamanian authorities say they have identified the body of a U.S. woman who had been missing since March and are looking for a Texas man suspected in her death.

Delay in US marines' move from Okinawa to Guam: report (AFP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:11 PM PDT

A US Marines' CH-46E helicopter is seen taking off from the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture. The planned transfer of some 8,000 US marines based on the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam by 2014 will be delayed due to lack of infrastructure in the US Pacific territory, according to a report.(AFP/File/Toshifumi Kitamura)AFP - The planned transfer of some 8,000 US marines based on the Japanese island of Okinawa to Guam by 2014 will be delayed due to lack of infrastructure in the US Pacific territory, a report said Saturday.

Australian govt consolidates lead over opposition: poll (Reuters)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:33 PM PDT

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard gives a speech at the 65th Annual Conference of NSW Nurses Association during her election campaign in Sydney July 21, 2010. Australia will hold federal elections on August 21. REUTERS/Daniel MunozReuters - Australia's Labor government has consolidated its election-winning lead over the conservative opposition one week into the campaign for the August 21 election, a poll published on Saturday showed.

Mass grave uncovered in Mexico

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:27 PM PDT

Authorities find remains of at least 23 people at suspected drug-gang dumping site.

'US drones' hit Pakistan compound

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 09:49 PM PDT

Officials say at least 16 killed after four missiles hit compound in South Waziristan.

Storm disrupts Gulf oil spill relief effort

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 06:50 PM PDT

As Tropical Depression Bonnie churns through the Gulf of Mexico, vessels at the site of BP's ruptured well are being moved, possibly leaving the sealed well cap unattended for about 48 hours, federal officials said.

Earthquakes strike south of Philippines

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 06:06 PM PDT

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Philippines' Moro Gulf early Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Seven out of 91 banks fail EU stress tests

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 05:34 PM PDT

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Taliban commanders arrested in Afghanistan

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 07:51 PM PDT

Six insurgents, among them two Taliban commanders, have been captured in eastern Afghanistan, the military said Friday.

US missiles kill 16 militants in NW Pakistan (AP)

Posted: 23 Jul 2010 10:38 PM PDT

FILE - In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, a U.S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan. U.S. missiles hit a suspected militant hide-out killing 16 insurgents in a troubled Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border before dawn Saturday July 24, 2020, intelligence officials said. Six missiles struck a compound in the Nazai Narai area of South Waziristan. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)AP - U.S. missiles hit a suspected militant hide-out, killing 16 insurgents in a troubled Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border before dawn Saturday, intelligence officials said.

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