Summary
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was declared the winner of the country’s July 28 presidential election by a government-controlled electoral body, which gave him about 51 percent of votes to 44 percent for his opponent, Edmundo González Urrutia.
Politico
On Sunday, millions of Venezuelans cast their votes in the presidential election which would decide the fate Nicolás Maduro – the man who has ruled the Latin American nation since Hugo Chávez’s death in 2013.
Irish Times
Electoral authorities installed more than 30,000 voting machines, and by law the opposition had the right to have representatives at all voting centers.
ABC News Go
This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of China-Venezuela diplomatic relations.
China Daily
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