Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Aug. 22
Sunday, August 22, 2021 11:41 AM

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• Chavez fights to keep control in legislative vote Sep 25, 2021 11:24 PM
  
  • CARACAS, Venezuela - Going into Sunday's legislative elections, President Hugo Chavez pitched his candidates like a salesman, promising Venezuelans he will give them low-interest credit cards and discounted appliances from washing machines to TV sets.
  • He is trying to hold off a determined challenge by the opposition, which is intent on breaking Chavez's stranglehold on the National Assembly for the first time in his presidency.
  • Chavez told cheering supporters during one of his final campaign rallies, standing amid allied candidates dressed in his party's signature red.

  • Newton's 5 TDs push Auburn past SC, 35-27 Sep 25, 2021 11:24 PM
    
    • AUBURN, Ala. - Cam Newton rushed for 176 yards and three touchdowns and passed for two more scores, leading No.
    • The Tigers (4-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) overcame a double-digit halftime deficit for the second straight week after falling behind 20-7.
    • Both of Newton's scoring passes came in the fourth quarter after fumbles by South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia.

    • BP fund czar promises bigger, faster claims Sep 25, 2021 11:12 PM
      
      • NEW ORLEANS - Victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill should start getting bigger payments faster, the administrator of the fund set up to help them said Saturday.
      • "Over the past few weeks, I have heard from the people of the Gulf, elected officials, and others that payments remain too slow and not generous enough," Feinberg said in a statement.
      • "They feel despair, they feel helpless, they feel abandoned," Kennon said.

      • Mexico nabs drug trafficker poised to replace capo Sep 25, 2021 11:08 PM
        
        • DOCTOR GONZALEZ, Mexico - Mexican authorities have arrested an alleged trafficker known as "The Tiger" who they say shipped a half-ton of drugs to the U.S. each month and may have been poised to take over for a dead capo in the Sinaloa cartel.
        • Federal police said Saturday that Margarito Soto Reyes, 44, was detained along with eight alleged accomplices near the western city of Guadalajara, but could not immediately specify when or in what circumstances the capture occurred.
        • Police said Soto Reyes allegedly traded in synthetic drugs on routes established by former Sinaloa leader Ignacio "Nacho" Coronel, who was killed in a gunbattle with soldiers in July.

        • AP Poll: Many think health overhaul should do more Sep 25, 2021 09:59 PM
          
          • WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has divided the nation, and Republicans believe their call for repeal will help them win elections in November.
          • A new AP poll finds that Americans who think the law should have done more outnumber those who think the government should stay out of health care by 2-to-1.
          • The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral.

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