Sunday, Jul 06th
Last update01:23:22 AM GMT
International Venezuela arrests bank chief close to government
Venezuela arrested the brother of one of President Hugo Chavez's senior ministers on Saturday, the latest move in a clean-up of the financial system that has closed banks and pointed to corruption close to the government.
The arrest of the banker, whose brother Jesse Chacon has worked with Chavez for nearly twenty years and is now science minister, shows the president clamping down on a new class of businessmen made rich by their connections to the government.
 Israeli airstrikes killed 15 Palestinians in Gaza early on Friday, while a hospital said another 20... |
| ||
 An 83-year-old retired priest has been arrested for defying a newly enforced ban on pro-Palestinian group... |
 Musicians Pani and Sebastian Enequist sport once-suppressed Inuit face tattoos, hunt seals for food in remote... |
