VENEZUELA OPPOSITION SCRAPS MADURO TRIAL

CARACAS: Venezuela freed four activists and the opposition postponed a symbolic trial in congress of President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday. Maduro met with opposition leaders on Sunday for the start of talks to ease a political standoff between the ruling Socialist Party and the opposition-led parliament. The opposition also agreed to postpone a march planned for today to the presidential palace that the government had described as part of a coup plot. – Reuters