Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dies
March 6, 2013 -- Updated 0439 GMT (1239 HKT)
(CNN) -- A deeply divided Venezuela is mourning its late leader and preparing to pick a new president to replace him.
Venezuelan officials called for peace and unity after President Hugo Chavez's death on Tuesday, emphasizing in state television broadcasts that all branches of the government and the military were standing together.
Elections will be held in 30 days, and Vice President Nicolas Madurowill assume the presidency in the interim, Foreign Minister Elias Jaua said in an interview broadcast on state-run VTV.
Tearing up as he announced Chavez's death after a long battle with cancer, Maduro called on Venezuelans to remain respectful.
HUMAN RIGHTS
South American leaders on trial for 'Condor' crimes
A long-awaited human rights trial has opened in Argentina. Former South American military leaders and top politicians face charges for crimes against humanity perpetrated while trying to crush leftist opponents.
A court in Buenos Aires began hearing a case on Tuesday that charges top South American officials in power during the 1970s and 1980s with carrying out a coordinated killing campaign known as Operation Condor. Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had launched the transnational conspiracy in an effort to rid neighboring countries of leftist opposition.
Argentina's former junta leader Rafael Videla, 87, (pictured above, second from the right) and Reynaldo Bignone, 85, are scheduled to stand trial. Both are currently serving life sentences for human rights violations during the country's 1976-1983 dictatorship.
Among Men: How Christine Lagarde Beat the Odds to Head IMF
By Marc Hujer
Christine Lagarde is the first woman ever to lead the International Monetary Fund. As part of her role in helping to save the euro, she's had to go head to head with some of the world's most important countries. She's not afraid of the fight and she doesn't give up easily.
"Mr. Ambassador," says Christine Lagarde, "I have a story for you."
He has brought along his counterparts from Japan, China, Ireland and France. But at this moment, he is the center of attention. Feeling flattered, Woeste's confidence seems to grow as he sits in his chair.
Kenyatta holds lead on second day of tense Kenya vote count
Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces an international trial for crimes against humanity, held a steady lead as votes were tallied Wednesday from Kenya's presidential election, the first since bloody violence five years ago after disputed polls.
Kenyatta, the deputy prime minister, kept his lead in the partial results over rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga on the second day of vote counting and more than 36 hours since polls closed late Monday.
Odinga says he was robbed of victory in 2007 when disputed results triggered bloody ethnic violence in which more than 1 100 people were killed and 600 000 were forced to flee their homes.
While millions of Kenyans turned out peacefully on Monday for the elections, how they react to the final results will be key to stability in the regional powerhouse.
South Asia
Pakistan plunged into election dilemma
By Syed Fazl-e-Haider
KARACHI - Violence continues unabated and tragically in Pakistan. As Shi'ites in Karachi buried their dead on Monday - a day after twin bombs killed 48 people in Abbas Town - gunmen in the Sohrab Goth area of the southern port city opened fire on mourners returning from the funeral procession. Four people were killed and more than 40 injured.
After participants from the funeral procession came under heavy fire near Al-Asif Square in Sohrab Goth, an enraged mob set 30 vehicles, including cars, motorcycles and an ambulance on fire.
"Gun-wielding arsonists and violent vandals are on the loose
everywhere. Various areas have plunged into total chaos," a private TV channel quoted one of its sources as saying.
After participants from the funeral procession came under heavy fire near Al-Asif Square in Sohrab Goth, an enraged mob set 30 vehicles, including cars, motorcycles and an ambulance on fire.
"Gun-wielding arsonists and violent vandals are on the loose
everywhere. Various areas have plunged into total chaos," a private TV channel quoted one of its sources as saying.
Anger courses through Nile Delta and Suez Canal, spelling trouble for Egypt's Morsi
President Mohamed Morsi and his supporters often write off Cairo protests as the work of elites, but that accusation doesn't hold water in the industrial heartland, now rocked by protests.
This city in the center of Egypt's Nile Delta bears the telltale signs of a protest-turned-fight with police – the street is littered with rocks, broken glass, and remnants of burned tires. The smell of tear gas lingers in the air, and boys collect the spent canisters that read “made in the USA.”
Such a scene has become familiar in the capital, Cairo, in the two years since a popular uprising unseated former President Hosni Mubarak. But now the unrest is spreading to the Suez Canal cities and into the fertile Nile Delta region north of Cairo.
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