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21/05/2018 GMT

Maduro Re-elected in Controversial Venezuela Poll

BBC World Service - World Update, Maduro Re-elected in Controversial Venezuela Poll

Opponents of Maduro dismiss his election victory as a farce

Opponents of Maduro dismiss his election victory as a farce.

There's been international condemnation of Venezuela's presidential election, which saw Nicolás Maduro re-elected in a landslide. Also: The populist parties which won Italy's general election seek permission to form a coalition government; a new study finds Aboriginal Australians did not arrive on the continent accidentally 50,000 years ago but as part of a planned migration.

(Photo: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Credit:  JUAN BARRETO/AFP/Getty Images)

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