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Chinchilla becomes Costa Rica's
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AFP/Mayela Lopez

Costa Rica's ruling National Liberation Party presidential candidate, Laura Chinchilla,delivering her victory speech after winning the general elections in San Jose late on February 7, 2010.

SAN JOSE
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Laura Chinchilla, a social conservative who opposes abortion but wants more help for the poor, became Costa Rica's first female president after a convincing election triumph.- story

 

 

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Oliver L Campbell : Carabobo block
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Lagniappe

 

 

Timothy Ashby / COHA :Next Year in Havana?

 

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HEADLINES

US to Chavez: 'Do not repress' your people

El Pais

Tom Shannon, US ambassador to Brazil

BRASILIA
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Gazprom to delay Shtokman
gas project three years

MOSCOW
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China hits out at US at 'Security Davos' - story

Commodity prices slump on debt woes - story

US discuss Iran with China, other partners - story

Serbia, Gazprom found a joint company for South Stream pipeline - story

Crude oil prices weaken at end of volatile week - story

Cnooc pays 2.5 bln dollars for Ugandan oil assets - story

Brazil not talking uranium enrichment with Iran: official - story

US envoy due in Nigeria as political crisis mounts - story

Total unions call strike at French refineries - story

Pro- and anti-Chavez demos on coup anniversary - story

Shell says profits plunge in 2009,
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LONDON
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Guyana may be helping Iran
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GEORGETOWN
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Crude oil prices head lower - story

Nigerian minister calls for ill president to transfer powers - story

Shell says probing claim of new Niger Delta attack - story

Debt-laden Dubai says new off-shore oil field found - story

Brazil dam draws ire of ecologists, natives and Sting - story

Nigeria sabotage forces cut in Shell output - story

China minister stands firm on Iran sanctions - story

PDVSA CEO in China in oil talks - story

Auction of Venezuela's vast Carabobo oil field- factbox - story

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MEES: Middle East's Political Comments

Max Taha’s

By Charles Snow

The rhetoric in Iran’s post-election confrontation has escalated sharply ahead of the 11 February anniversary of the Islamic revolution. In Iraq the dispute over the disqualification of candidates in the parliamentary elections next month remains unresolved. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim that Iran is ready to send its low-grade uranium abroad for further processing has been given a skeptical reception in the west. Palestinian leader Mahmud ‘Abbas and Israel Defense Minister Ehud Barak see eye to eye on the undesirability of a one-state solution. The US has named a new ambassador to Syria.- story   - previous stories

Sunday's
Feature

Haiti: Building Back Better
- and Beyond

By Mark Schneider

Mr. Chairman, members of the Subcommittee, let me express my appreciation for the opportunity to offer testimony today on the immediate and long-term consequences of the earthquake in Haiti – for its people, its democracy and its neighbours.  - story - previous stories

Saturday
Lagniappe

A letter by Chavez’s
representative to the U.S.

By Gustavo Coronel

A letter (below) has been sent my Mr. Bernardo Alvarez, the Chavez’s envoy to the U.S., to Senator Dianne Feinstein, as an answer to the comments made about Venezuela by the National Security Director, Mr. Dennis Blair. The letter by Mr. Alvarez deserves a few comments from a Venezuelan citizen who knows what the Venezuelan reality is.- story   - previous stories

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