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Chile’s Alexis Sánchez comforts Spain’s Andrés Iniesta after the champions’ World Cup loss.

Cameroon, title-holders Spain out of World Cup

Africa has lost one of its five representative countries in the World Cup, while the champions were humiliated by a shock defeat by Chile.

Venezuelan Government authorities and guests ride vehicles in front of the hearse carrying the remains of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to his resting place.

Venezuelans flood streets for another Chavez coffin parade

Venezuelans have taken to the streets at a funeral parade for Hugo Chavez amid protests that the government was exploiting his death to win election.

Maduro has been branded illegitimate by the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which has effectively been replaced by Maduro’s own creation, the Constituent Assembly. (AFP)

Venezuela’s election race begins with scathing attacks

Presidential candidates Nicolas Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela’s election race with critical personal attacks.

‘Laughing’ Chavez dishes out orders from Cuba

Six weeks after his disappearance from the public eye for surgery, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is joking and giving instructions again, says an official.

Ailing Chavez’s swearing-in could be postponed

Hugo Chavez’s swearing-in for a new six-year term can be postponed if he is unable to attend due to his battle to recover from cancer surgery.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Chavez battle with cancer dominates Venezuelan state elections

State elections will determine opposition leader Capriles’s future ahead of possible new presidential vote if Hugo Chavez is incapacitated by cancer.

Venezuela’s Chavez re-elected

Venezuela’s socialist leader Hugo Chavez has comfortably won re-election, quashing the opposition’s best chance at unseating him in 14 years.