Venezuelan leader Maduro arrives in New York, news outlets report
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro landed in the United States on Saturday, multiple news outlets reported, arriving in upstate New York following his capture in an overnight U.S. operation, Reuters reported.
Video showed a plane arriving at Stewart International Airport about 60 miles (97 km) northwest of New York City, with several U.S. personnel in FBI and other gear boarding the aircraft after it landed. TV news networks, including CNN, Fox News and MS Now, identified a person who disembarked from the plane as Maduro, according to Reuters.
Trump says US will 'run' Venezuela and 'fix oil infrastructure'
US President Donald Trump has said the US will "run" Venezuela until a "safe, proper and judicious transition" can be ensured, after US strikes led to the capture of country's President Nicolas Maduro, BBC reported.
US oil companies would also fix Venezuela's "broken infrastructure" and "start making money for the country", Trump said.
The US launched strikes on Venezuela on Saturday in which Maduro and his wife, First Lady Cilia Flores, were captured by US forces and removed from the country, according to BBC.
Contaminated water kills 7 in Indore, 2 civic body officials suspended
At least seven people have died and more than 100 others have been hospitalised in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore over the past few days, allegedly after drinking contaminated water in the city’s Bhagirathpura area, the Indore mayor said on Wednesday, India Today reported.
"Three deaths have been officially confirmed, but we have received information about four others as well," Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava said, accepting responsibility and assuring that strict action would be taken against senior officials too.
Bulgaria joins the euro after rocky path to new currency
Bulgaria - the poorest country in the European Union - has become the 21st member of the eurozone - leapfrogging more obvious and prosperous candidates like Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, BBC reported.
For mostly urban, young and entrepreneurial Bulgarians, it's an optimistic and potentially lucrative leap - the final move in a game which has brought Bulgaria into the European mainstream - from Nato and EU membership, to joining the Schengen zone, and now the euro.
For the older, rural, more conservative parts of the population, the replacement of the Bulgarian lev by the euro provokes fear and resentment, according to BBC.
