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Venezuela President Hugo Chavez is considering naming an ambassador to the United States, signaling a shift in the historically tense relations between the two nations — one that the Obama administration welcomed. “It is possible we will begin evaluating the designation of an ambassador in the United States,” Chavez said in a statement Saturday after the meeting of leaders and representatives from 34 countries at the the fifth Summit of the Americas.
The United States is boycotting a U.N. conference on racism next week over a document that "singles out" Israel in its criticism and conflicts with the nation’s "commitment to unfettered free speech," the U.S.
A suicide bomber in Pakistan rammed his vehicle into a security forces convoy on Saturday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 15 others, police said.
An Italian tugboat sent a distress call to a NATO ship Saturday before it was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, the tug’s owner told CNN.
A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest killed at least nine people and injured 31 others Saturday in Iraq’s interior, officials said.
A man with a pistol killed one person and wounded three others at a cafe in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Saturday morning, a police spokesman said.
The president of Fiji on Saturday defied a court ruling that had declared the Pacific nation’s military government illegal, swearing in as prime minister a man in direct opposition to the ruling, the state-run Web site said.
Three police officers were shot in Pittsburgh on Saturday, as they responded to a domestic call, Allegheny County police said.
A Boeing 737 with 69 people aboard landed safely Saturday after making an emergency landing at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, an airport spokeswoman and Russia’s Interfax news agency said.
A suspected U.S. missile strike killed at least 12 people in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday morning, local political and military sources said.