Venezuela's already violent political crisis looks headed for a dangerous showdown in the streets, as the opposition called Thursday for nationwide protests against President Nicolas Maduro in outright defiance of a government ban on demonstrations ahead of a controversial weekend vote slammed internationally. "The regime declared we can't demonstrate... We will respond with the TAKING OF VENEZUELA" on Friday, the opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable, said on its Twitter account on the second day of a 48-hour general strike. It followed a presidential decree read by Interior Minister Nestor Reverol warning that protesters risked five to 10 years in prison for anything that "could disturb or affect" Sunday's vote.
Oil field services giant Halliburton will pay nearly $30 million to resolve allegations of bribery in Angola, US regulators announced Thursday. Former Halliburton vice president Jeannot Lorenz also agreed to pay a $75,000 fine for falsifying the company's books and circumventing internal controls, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement. Lorenz steered $13 million in contracts to a local company owned by a former Halliburton employee with ties to an official at the Angolan state oil company Sonangol.
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