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Nicolas Maduro raises his fist after he was sworn in as Venezuela's acting president by the President of the National Assembly, Diosdado Cabello, right, at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, March 8, 2013. Venezuela signs gun control bill
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro signed a gun control bill into law in a bid to rein in the country's runaway violent crime. "I hereby sign into law this gun control law, for peace in our nation,"... (photo: AP / Fernando Llano) Al Jazeera
Arms   Law   Photos   Venezuela   Wikipedia: Gun control
Iranian presidential candidate Hasan Rowhani, a former top nuclear negotiator, attends a rally in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 1, 2013. The 11th presidential election after Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, will be held on June 14. Iran's next president called 'diplomat sheik' by supporters
TEHRAN — A week ago, many observers viewed Iran's presidential election as a horse-race among conservative hard-liners hostile to reform. Then came an unexpected surge in support for Hassan... (photo: AP / Ebrahim Noroozi) The Los Angeles Times
Photos   Politics   Tehran   Wikipedia: Hassan Rouhani   Elections
Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni waves to neighbors after leaving her apartment complex where she was under house arrest in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, June 14, 2013. Venezuelan authorities on Friday freed the judge who arrested in 2009 after then-President Hugo Chavez objected to one of her rulings, and who became a cause celebre for the opposition and international human rights groups. Magistrate Maria Lourdes Afiuni who cross Venezuela's Hugo Chavez freed
Venezuelan authorities freed a judge who was arrested in 2009 after then-president Hugo Chavez objected to one of her rulings. Her case became a cause célèbre for the opposition and... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos) South China Morning Post
Caracas   Lawmaker   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni
Julian Assange at New Media Days 09 in Copenhagen. Ecuador minister arrives in UK for Assange talks
Ecuador's foreign minister is due to arrive in the UK for talks with his British counterpart over the situation of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Mr Assange has been granted political asylum... (photo: Creative Commons / New Media Days) BBC News
Ecuador   London   Photos   Wikileaks   Wikipedia: Julian Assange
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, left, and Chinese businessman Wang Jing hold up a concession agreement for the construction of a multibillion-dollar canal at the Casa de los Pueblos in Managua, Nicaragua, Friday, June 14, 2013. Nicaragua's Ortega, Wang Jing sign canal agreement
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — President Daniel Ortega and Chinese businessman Wang Jing have signed an agreement giving his company the right to build a shipping channel across Nicaragua that would... (photo: AP / Esteban Felix) The Guardian
Investment   Nicaragua   Panama   Photos   Wikipedia: Nicaragua Canal
In this Monday Oct. 31, 2011 photo, Venezuelan Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni sits in her apartment while under house arrest in Caracas, Venezuela. Afiuni infuriated President Hugo Chavez when she ordered the release of an imprisoned banker who was charged with flouting the country's currency exchange controls. A day after her arrest nearly two years ago, Chavez demanded on national television that she face 30 years in prison. Now under house arrest, she is barred by a court order from speaking to the news media and instead uses Twitter to air her protests, calling herself a "judge kidnapped by order of Chavez." Venezuela ends house arrest of Judge Maria Afiuni
The Venezuelan authorities have ended the house arrest of a judge held on corruption charges since 2009. A lawyer for Maria Lourdes Afiuni said a court in Caracas rescinded the detention order on... (photo: AP / Fernando Llano) BBC News
Corruption   Human Rights   Photos   Venezuela   Wikipedia: Detention of Maria Lourdes Afiuni
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