US Vice President Mike Pence and Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido agreed on a strategy to tighten the noose around President Nicolas Maduro following a meeting with regional allies in Colombia on Monday. Pence announced more sanctions against Venezuela and $56 million in aid for neighboring countries…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the American government of manufacturing a crisis in an attempt to start a war in South America, in an interview broadcast on Monday. “Everything that the United States government has done has been doomed to failure,” Maduro told American broadcaster…

An Israeli ex-minister was sentenced to 11 years in prison yesterday for spying for his country’s main enemy Iran after a plea bargain in the case, the prosecutor said. Gonen Segev, who served as energy and infrastructure minister from 1995 to 1996, had previously agreed to a plea bargain on charges…

Global indifference is fuelling atrocities across the Middle East, rights watchdog Amnesty International warned yesterday in a report condemning what it said was growing impunity. “The crackdown on civil society actors and political opponents increased significantly in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia,”…