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Russia urges end to stalemate in Venezuela

02:23 Elections are the way to solve the political stalemate in Venezuela, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a visit to Caracas Friday. He met with Venezuelan Presiden

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UN Security Council in "holding pattern" on Syria: council president

The UN Security Council, while seeing the "need to try to break the stalemate" over alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria, recognizes "the geopolitics of this has shifted to the G20" meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, where world leaders meet for the next few days, the council president said on Wednesday.