US Vice President Mike Pence has met with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guiado as the Trump administration aims to increase pressure on Nicolas Maduro.
Speaking during a trip to Colombia, Pence announced more sanctions against Venezuelan officials, and urged other countries to freeze the country's oil assets.
Steve Mort reports:
Kuwaiti air defences intercept missile, drone attack
Kuwait's army said on Thursday that its air defences had intercepted missiles and drones but did not say where they came from.
US strikes Iran again after Trump denies deal on Strait of Hormuz
The US military carried out new strikes in Iran on Thursday, targeting a military site that officials believed posed a threat to US forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, hours after President Donald Trump dismissed an Iranian report of a deal to restore traffic through the strategic waterway.
Kenya school fire kills 15 students, police say
A fire tore through a dormitory at a girls' school in a town in Kenya's Rift Valley overnight, killing at least 15 students, police said on Thursday.
Israel declares new swathe of Lebanon 'a combat zone'
Israel's military on Wednesday declared a new swathe of southern Lebanon as a combat zone and said residents in the area should move north, warning it would act "with great force" against Hezbollah in the zone.
Rescuers in Laos say more oxygen needed to save trapped divers
The leader of a Thai volunteer group helping to extract seven divers trapped in a cave in Laos said on Thursday that more oxygen tanks would be needed to complete the rescue mission.
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