Washington crossed a historic line by seizing Venezuela’s sitting president, ending decades of restraint despite years of sanctions and threats. The US framed the operation as a strike against narco-terrorism, but it was driven by wider aims, including oil, migration, domestic US politics and reasserting dominance in Latin America amid rivalry with China, Russia and Iran.

Nigeria’s drug enforcement agency Sunday said it had arrested 22 Indian crew members of a merchant ship after 31.5 kilogrammes of cocaine was found on the vessel at Lagos’s main port.

It is the latest in a spate of violent attacks in Niger state, and comes a day after officials said schools could reopen following a mass abduction last year. 

​It is the latest in a spate of violent attacks in Niger state, and comes a day after officials said schools could reopen following a mass abduction last year.