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Celebrations have been taking place in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, to mark the country's 200 year of independence. A large parade included 6.5 thousand military and 5 thousand from different groups from across Venezuelan society. The celebrations commemorated April 19, 1810, when the municipal council of Caracas first led a successful movement to depose the Spanish colonizers. This led to the ...

The United States and China seem to have reached an agreement with regard to the exchange rate between their two currencies. The agreement is that the U.S. government will stop yelling about it, and China will do whatever it wants to do, which will probably include some modest rise in the renminbi some time in the near future. This agreement was seen in the statements from both parties during the nuclear summit held in Washington over the past few days. "China rightly sees the issue of currency as a sovereign issue," said President Obama in response to a question about his meeting with President Hu Jintao of China. Stating more of what should have been obvious from the beginning of this dispute, he added "They are resistant to international pressure when it comes to them making decisions about their currency policy and monetary policy."
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One day before the expiration of the ultimatum, the terrorist group ‘Al Qaeda in the Maghreb - 'Aqmi, al Jihad fi Bilad Al Maghrib al Arabi' - released an audio message by Sergio Cicala, the Sicilian abducted with his wife, Philomene Pwelgna Kaborè, last December 17, in the desert of Mauritania on the border with Mali. The message - a little more than a minute, entitled "Message from the Italian hostage to the Berlusconi’s...government" and published with a photo where Cicala is kneeling and unshaved in front of six Islamists with bandaged faces and weapons in hands - was tracked by SITE, the U.S. agency for monitoring Islamist websites, according to which the message was recorded on February 24.
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The Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) research and development platform successfully fired the onboard High Energy Laser (HEL) to engage an instrumented target missile, called a Missile Alternative Range Target Instrument (MARTI). This test demonstrated the full functionality of the ABTBL system to successfully acquire, track, and engage a boosting target. Test instrumentation aboard the MARTI collect ...

In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on May 21, 2009, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of... ...

THE share market ended the day stronger after Australian investors shrugged off news of a much-expected interest rate... ...