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Opposition: Enough signatures for recall vote on Maduro

Saturday, 25 June 2016 6:08 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 25 June 2016 6:08 AM ]

Henrique Capriles Radonski, Venezuelan opposition leader and Miranda State governor, speaks during a press conference in Caracas on June 24, 2016. ©AFP

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

The Iraqi army has purged Daesh terrorists from the area of Makhoul in the northern Salahuddin province. Officials say they are trying to open humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians trapped in the Daesh-held areas of the province. Earlier this month, the government declared victory over Daesh in Fallujah.
Condemnations continue to pour in over Bahrain’s revocation of the citizenship of a top Shia cleric. People in Iraq, Indian-controlled Kashmir and Nigeria called unethical the Al Khalifah regime’s measure against Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim saying it will further intensify the social unrest in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
Daesh has reportedly abducted some 900 Kurdish civilians in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo over the past three weeks. A London-based monitor says Takfiri terrorists have killed at least 26 of the abductees.
Hundreds of anti-Brexit protesters have marched in London to demonstrate against what they called the racist and anti-refugee rhetoric of the EU referendum campaign. The protesters accused the rival campaigns of targeting the refugees. Elsewhere in Glasgow, protesters called for a second referendum on Scottish independence.
Britain’s exit from the EU has taken a toll on UK and US markets. Ratings agency Moody’s cut London’s credit rating outlook from "stable" to "negative” while the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted more than 600 points to close nearly 3.4 percent lower. Oil prices have also tumbled by five percent.
The death toll from the floods in the US state of West Virginia has risen to 23. More than a hundred homes were destroyed and thousands left without electricity after powerful storms swamped the eastern state. A state of emergency has been declared in forty-four counties.
The opposition in Venezuela claims it has validated more than the number of signatures needed to initiate the process of convening a referendum to recall President Nicolas Maduro. Government election authorities now have 20 days to verify the signatures.
Bolivian police have clashed with protesters during a 48-hour strike by the country’s largest labor union. At least six people were reported injured in the central city of Cocha-bamba. Unionists and textile workers called for the industrial action against what they call President Evo Morales’s neo-liberal economic agenda.