Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said he has ordered the opening of some border crossings with Colombia. The crossings in the Tachira state include some of the most direct routes between the capital cities of Caracas and Bogota.
Venezuela had closed bridges on the border in February amid opposition efforts to import food and other aide to the country. The country, which reopened its border with Brazil last month, reached an accord with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies on Friday for the donation and distribution of medical supplies in the country.
Maduro’s government has for months repelled efforts to remove him led by Juan Guaido, the National Assembly leader recognized as the rightful head of Venezuela by dozens of countries including the U.S., Colombia and Brazil.
LONDON — A total of five teenage boys were under arrest Saturday in connection with an alleged assault on two women who refused to kiss as they were surrounded on a London bus and taunted as lesbians, according to an account by one of the women.
The alleged attack May 30 was revealed in social media posts by one of the women, Melania Geymonat, who said she was beaten and bloodied. The British news media reported on the incident Friday and politicians responded.
On Friday evening, the Metropolitan Police announced that four teens had been arrested in connection with the assault. They said another boy, 16, was arrested Saturday.
Geymonat, an Uruguayan flight attendant, said she and her American girlfriend Chris — she did not provide a last name — were traveling home on the top deck of a London night bus to Camden Town, a neighborhood busy with nightlife, in the early hours of May 30.
She said a group of four men, one with a Spanish accent, the others with British accents, were “behaving like hooligans” and demanding they kiss “so they could enjoy watching.” According to her account, the situation escalated and the men started punching them. “Suddenly the bus had stopped, the police were there and I was bleeding all over,” she wrote.
Police said that the incident took place at 2:30 a.m. and that “the women were then attacked and punched several times before the males ran off the bus.
Hillary Clinton’s youngest brother, businessman Tony Rodham, 65, died Friday night, the former secretary of state and presidential candidate announced in a tweet that called him “kind, generous & a wonderful husband.”
“It’s hard to find words, my mind is flooded with memories of him,” Clinton said.
Rodham is survived by wife Megan Madden and three children. He was previously married to Nicole Boxer, daughter of former Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California.
No cause of death was given.
Rodham worked for the Democratic National Convention during Bill Clinton’s first presidential run in 1992, and also worked on his sister’s first campaign for the Democratic nomination, when she lost to Barack Obama.
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A U.S. Border Patrol agent in Texas is credited with saving a migrant woman and her young son who were attacked and covered by thousands of bees.
The agency said in a statement Friday that the agent was patrolling the Rio Grande in Brownsville, in southernmost Texas, when bees entered his patrol vehicle.
The agent was looking for the origin of the bees Tuesday when he found what he thought was just a bundle of clothing covered in the insects. He then realized it was a woman curled into a ball.
He ordered her to run into his vehicle and discovered she was covering her 8-year-old boy. The child began to vomit and the agent rushed the pair to a hospital, where they’re expected to recover. Authorities say they were traveling from Guatemala.
SAN DIEGO — A military judge on Friday refused to dismiss the murder case of a decorated Navy SEAL, but found the prosecution’s meddling in defense lawyer emails troubling enough to reduce the maximum penalty he faces Capt.
Aaron Rugh said an effort to track emails sent to lawyers for Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher violated constitutional rights against illegal searches and the right to counsel by interfering with attorney-client privilege.
“It hampered the defense’s opportunity to prepare for trial as they became necessarily enmeshed in discovery and litigation related to the operation, thereby harming the accused’s right to competent counsel,” Rugh said.
The action also harmed the public’s view of the military justice system and cast doubt on Gallagher’s ability to give a fair trial, Rugh said.
The ruling was the latest rebuke in one of the Navy’s most prominent war crimes cases and came just days after the judge removed the lead prosecutor as the defense sought dismissal of the case for alleged misconduct in what they characterized as “spying.”
— Wire reports