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CABIMAS, Venezuela – Squeezed by slumping crude prices, Venezuela is reaching out to the multinational oil companies it once demonized as imperialist profiteers. Venezuela is soliciting bids from the world’s major oil companies to extract heavy crude from vast deposits in its Orinoco River region. Despite President Hugo Chavez’s criticism …

These days, it seems like patents are being handed out like candy on Halloween — more than 260,000 patents were granted in the United States during fiscal year 2007 alone. From the development of the television to the rise of the Internet, some of the most influential devices of the …

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistani chief justice whose ouster spurred waves of protests that led to a president’s downfall returned to work Sunday, while the ruling party and opposition resolved to cooperate despite their own clash over his reinstatement. Any reconciliation among the major political factions could spell relief for U.S. …