Caracas (Venezuela) - Venezuela’a opposition-dominated parliament has delayed a symbolic trial of President Nicolas Maduro.

Caracas (Venezuela) - Venezuela’s opposition is increasing the pressure on President Nicolas Maduro by planning a national strike on Friday and a march on the presidential palace next week.

Caracas (Venezuela) - Venezuela’s electoral authority has suspended the next phase of a recall referendum against unpopular President Nicolas Maduro.

Five years ago, the wave of anger that fuelled the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia crashed into Libya. After several months of fierce fighting, anti-government rebels seized control of the capital Tripoli.

Vladimir Putin has accused Paris of knowingly luring Moscow into vetoing a UN Security Council resolution drafted by France. It called for an end to air strikes over Aleppo. Russia has refuted claims it has deliberately targeted civilians in the city.

Bogotà (Colombia) - In the week before Colombia holds a referendum on whether to accept a peace deal to end over fifty years of civil war, commanders of the main rebel group, the FARC, have been asking their victims to forgive them.

Venezuela's foreign minister called on Latin America to unite to defend sovereignty and development.

Rome, (Italy) - Three-time Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi turned 80 on Thursday.

Caracas (Venezuela) - In Venezuela, the opposition has vowed nationwide rallies next month in a bid to force an immediate recall referendum on President Nicolas Maduro’s rule this year.

Caracas (Venezuela) - Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro are keeping up the pressure for a referendum that could force him from office this year, despite electoral authorities ruling out any such vote until early 2017.