Reuters World News Summary

Following is a summary of current world news briefs. Venezuela's Maduro orders revision of diplomatic relations with U.S.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he had ordered a "revision" of diplomatic relations with the United States and would announce new measures in the next few hours. Maduro was responding to comments made earlier on Tuesday by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who gave his support to Venezuela's opposition and called Maduro a "dictator with no legitimate claim to power." Cardiff City soccer player Sala missing after plane disappears over English Channel

Cardiff City's new soccer star Emiliano Sala was on board a light aircraft that disappeared en route to the Welsh capital where he was to join up with the team, France's civil aviation authority said on Tuesday. Argentine Sala was flying from the French city of Nantes to Cardiff when the plane lost radar contact off the English Channel island Guernsey late on Monday. Hundreds of protesters close off main road in north Khartoum

Hundreds of protesters blocked a main road in one of Khartoum's most populous neighborhoods on Tuesday, witnesses said, as Sudanese police fired teargas to try to disperse the crowd. Protesters chanted "how much does a martyr's blood cost?" and called for President Omar al-Bashir to step down, continuing protests that began on Dec 19. Colombia's ELN rebel commanders in Havana deny role in blast

The leadership of the Colombian ELN rebel group, which has been in Havana for peace negotiations since last year, has denied any role in a fatal car bombing in Bogota last week, even though the guerrilla organization took responsibility for the attack. "Our role in Cuba is to advance in the negotiations, we are not aware of the actions taking place in Colombia nor do we have any involvement in them," chief ELN negotiator Pablo Beltran told Cuban state-run agency Prensa Latina on Monday. Son of Brazil president faces fresh question about Rio aides

The son of Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he was the target of a "defamatory campaign" after news reports that he employed the mother and wife of a fugitive former policeman accused of running a criminal organization. Flavio Bolsonaro, 37, a former Rio state lawmaker elected to the Senate in October, has already faced tough questions about a series of financial transactions involving him and his former driver and state assembly aide Fabricio Queiroz. British Labour leader Corbyn curves toward new EU referendum option

British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn moved a step closer to paving the way for another referendum on European Union membership by trying to use parliament to grab control of Brexit from Prime Minister Theresa May. With the clock ticking down to March 29, the date set in law for Brexit, the United Kingdom is in the deepest political crisis in half a century as it grapples with how, or even whether, to exit the European project it joined in 1973. U.S. military service member killed in Afghanistan: statement

A U.S. military service member was killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the U.S. military said in a statement, without providing additional details. "The incident is under investigation ... We will share additional information as appropriate," the statement said. Spain charges 'Wolf Pack' with another sexual assault

Spanish prosecutors have tabled another sex crime charge against four men calling themselves "The Wolf Pack" who assaulted a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016. In a controversial ruling, a Spanish court last year gave nine-year prison sentences to the men for sexually assaulting the 18-year-old in a doorway, but cleared them of rape because of a lack of physical violence. Russia says any deal to end land row with Japan needs public support

Any deal to end a territorial row with Japan needs public backing, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday after meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, giving a nod to widespread Russian opposition to ceding territory to Japan. Shortly before Putin met Abe in the Kremlin for the latest round of talks on the dispute over a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Russian police detained 11 people protesting against territorial concessions outside the Japanese embassy in Moscow Venezuela government says opposition linked to military revolt; party denies charge

Venezuela's government said on Tuesday that a group of military officers who stole weapons as part of a failed revolt on Monday had delivered the arms to opposition party Popular Will, which the party dismissed as "lies" and an attempt to divert blame. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez provided no evidence for the government's allegation.