The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee will introduce legislation in the coming weeks seeking to limit President Donald Trump from expanding his travel ban, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a press release on Monday

Venezuela's opposition seem to have started to lose its ground ahead of the possible parliamentary elections in 2020, after a year of the power struggle between their US-backed leader, Juan Guaido, and President Nicolas Maduro, months of political unrest, as well as an economic decline from US sanctions, experts told Sputnik

Washington's sanction policy targeting Venezuela has exceeded all the imaginable limits of counterproductivity and antihumanity, the Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on Thursday, soon after the US Department of the Treasury slapped seven more Venezuelans with sanctions

Transparency International on Thursday released its annual Corruption Perception Index for 2019, with Pakistan's ranking dropping to 120 out of 180 countries with a slightly worse score of 32 out of 100