CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's convalescing President Hugo Chavez laughed off talk of succession on Wednesday and lashed out at speculation his cancer diagnosis was made up to boost his popularity.
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Armed ethnic Serbs, who attacked and burned down a border post, fired at NATO peacekeeping forces in Kosovo on Wednesday in the ethnic-Serb dominated northern part of the country. |
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Foreign groups are meddling in Egypt and stirring up unrest, Egypt's army chief said on Wednesday, days after protesters marched to the defense ministry to urge their military rulers to speed up reforms.
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cypriot President Demetris Christofias will ask his cabinet to resign on Thursday as he attempts to hold together a fragile governing coalition in the face of growing public anger over a munitions blast which triggered Cyprus's worst peacetime disaster.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China is building two aircraft carriers as part of a military modernization program that is causing concern among other Asian countries, sources said on Wednesday.