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Thailand’s credit rating was restored to BBB+ by Fitch Ratings four years after political turmoil prompted a cut, signaling confidence in Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s ability to maintain social stability.
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Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as Venezuela’s acting president hours after eulogizing his mentor Hugo Chavez in a fiery and tearful state funeral that drew leaders and celebrity activists from around the world.
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Allies of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez paid their final respects to the firebrand socialist leader at a state funeral that marked the emotional high point of a week of tributes preceding a snap election to choose his successor.
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Venezuela will embalm Hugo Chavez’s body for display as a permanent tribute to the socialist revolutionary whose death has led to an outpouring of grief among his followers.
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Venezuelans are paying their respects to former President Hugo Chavez today, filing past an open casket in a military academy after his body was carried through the streets of Caracas yesterday.
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Former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said soldiers acted in self-defense when setting up live-fire zones around a protest site in 2010 as he fights murder charges over a crackdown that killed more than 90 people.
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Venezuela’s Vice President Nicolas Maduro said he will travel to Cuba today to receive instructions from cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez on a regional summit taking place this week.
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Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Havana yesterday to receive instructions from cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez on a regional summit taking place this week.
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Thai demonstrators again delayed a decision on when they will end protests, testing Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s patience after he offered a reconciliation plan that included cutting his term short by 13 months.
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The four members of the pioneering electronic band Kraftwerk stand in a row on stage wearing black Spiderman-like suits with a white grid pattern, virtually motionless in front of their consoles, as though navigating a spaceship rather than performing a gig.
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