Venezuela crisis: US planes carrying aid arrive in Colombia
US military planes have been delivering humanitarian aid for Venezuela in the Colombian border town of Cucuta.
The aid is being stockpiled at the request of the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last month.
President Nicolás Maduro has alleged that the aid is part of a US plot to disguise an invasion into Venezuela.
Mr Guaidó said some 600,000 Venezuelan volunteers would carry the aid across the border on 23 February.
The week that shook Thai politics – and what comes next
A puppet-master in exile and a princess stopped from running for prime minister throw hopes of a return to democracy into doubt
Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Bangkok
It was last Monday that the incendiary whispers first began.
Over the following four days, politicians, foreign embassy officials, journalists and political observers gradually caught wind that a candidate for prime minister would be put forward to run in the elections in March who would turn the political landscape on its head.
By Friday morning, to the shock of almost everyone, the rumour was confirmed, setting the ball rolling on one of the most extraordinary weeks in Thai politics in years.
Four Billion MoreWhat to Do About Massive Population Growth
The populations in the poorest countries on earth are doubling every few decades. That necessarily leads to conflict over scarce resources such as land, food and work -- and to more migration to Europe. But there are solutions.
By Fiona Ehlers, Bartholomäus Grill, Laura Höflinger and Samiha Shafy
All it takes is a half-hour at this intersection in Lagos, the sprawling metropolis in Nigeria, to begin fearing this city. White oil tankers crawl along both on and beneath an overpass on the multilane Apapa Road, making their way out of the Niger River delta. Zipping around them are black-and-yellow rickshaws and minibuses, with sweaty passengers clinging to the doors. Every few meters, a truck hits the brakes with an ear-splitting shriek, the clouds of exhaust mixing with the diesel fumes of the generators. The foul air hangs like a thick blanket over the corrugated metal slums to the right and left of the street. Just 30 minutes at this intersection is enough to make you want to flee this city -- a megalopolis that is growing faster than almost any other place on earth.
Venezuela's Guaido calls for nationwide protests to allow US aid to enter
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday called for nationwide protests next week to support volunteers planning to travel to the border with Colombia to bring in US humanitarian aid.
"Not only will this be happening at the border where the volunteer movement will be, but in cities up and down the country where there will be demonstrations on February 23 for the aid to come in," Guaido told thousands of supporters at a public gathering.
The announcement came as tons of US food aid was piling up along the border. It has been denounced by President Nicolas Maduro, who has asked the military to reinforce the frontier, denouncing the food as a "booby trap" and a cover, he said, for a planned US military invasion.
Fear grips Kashmiris living in India after deadly suicide attack
Calls for revenge attacks against Kashmiris after suicide bomber kills 42 Indian troopers in the disputed region.by Rifat Fareed
Thursday's suicide attack on Indian forces in India-administered Kashmir has triggered a wave of hate and revenge attacks against Kashmiris residing in different parts of mainland India.
Passions have been running high against Kashmiri Muslims since Thursday when 20-year-old Adil Dar rammed his car filled with explosives into a convoy carrying Indian paramilitary forces, killing 42 of them.
Pakistan-based group Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest in nearly 30 years of the Kashmir conflict.
Interpreter under fire after calling African runners 'chimpanzees'
An interpreter in a recent international marathon race in Japan has come under fire after she called runners from African countries "chimpanzees" in a blog post.
The interpreter who is in her 50s apologized for choosing the words in a careless manner and closed the online post, the organizers of the Beppu-Oita Mainichi Marathon said.
The woman as a paid volunteer helped runners the organizer invited from overseas in the race which took place on Feb 3 on a course running through Oita and Beppu in the southwestern prefecture of Oita.
The organizers invited five marathoners from Morocco, Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa.
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