BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite its neighbor's aggressive rhetoric and dynamiting of two border ...
SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan soldiers on Thursday blew up two makeshift foot bridges that stretched across the border to Colombia in ...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he will join a team of Cuban scientists on flights to "bomb clouds" to create rain amid a severe drought that has aroused public anger due to water and electricity rationing. Chavez, who has ...
Colombia detains 4 Venezuelan national guard troops, plans repatriation to calm relations Four soldiers from Venezuela's National Guard captured in Colombian territory will be repatriated in a bid to ease tensions between the South American neighbors, President Alvaro Uribe's government said Saturday. ...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Battling with one of the world's highest murder rates, Venezuela on Wednesday crushed more than 30,000 guns seized from the streets during police raids this year. Policemen used blow-torches to chop up some of shotguns and pistols. They compacted ...
Group: Work half done to clear the world of land mines, a decade after treaty's signing Significant progress has been made in removing land mines around the world, but the hidden devices killed more than 1,260 people last year, the International Campaign ...
Venezuela destroys more than 30,000 firearms as country struggles with soaring crime Venezuelan authorities have destroyed more than 30,000 illegal firearms as part of an effort to combat soaring crime. The government plans to sell the demolished guns as scrap metal and ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia brought what it called threats of war from neighboring Venezuela to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday after Hugo Chavez, leader of the neighboring country, told his army to get ready to fight. For months Chavez has said ...
Mother of former MLB pitcher Victor Zambrano rescued unharmed 2 days after kidnapping The mother of former major league pitcher Victor Zambrano was rescued after a three-day kidnapping ordeal, Venezuelan authorities said on Wednesday. The 56-year-old Elizabeth Mendez Zambrano was rescued late ...
Venezuela's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu among isolated Amazon Indians has been contained. The appearance of swine flu among the Yanomami Indians has been seen as a major health threat because diseases introduced by gold miners and other outsiders ...
The United States on Tuesday called on Colombia and Venezuela to talk out their differences, before the growing tension over a US-Colombian military base deal gets out of hand. "We certainly don't think this is about the US," State Department spokesman Philip ...
Russia to provide Venezuela with technology ranging from robotics to biochemistry Venezuela and Russia say they are working on a series of agreements for Moscow to provide the South American country with technology for the development of industries ranging from robotics to ...
