Beijing / AFP China has objected to the Dalai Lama meeting with Indian President Pranab Mukherjee earlier this month, saying the talks had negatively impacted ties between the Asian neighbours. The Tibetan spiritual leader met with Mukherjee at the Indian presidential palace in New Delhi during a child welfare summit attended by Nobel laureates and world leaders on December 10-11. …

  Caracas / AFP Desperate Venezuelans looted delivery trucks and clashed with police as a botched plan to introduce new banknotes left people without cash—the latest shortage in a spiraling economic crisis. President Nicolas Maduro blamed opposition politicians for the unrest, claiming that there were pictures and videos of some opposition members of the National Assembly involved in “attempts of …

  Paris / AFP A French anti-terrorist judge has charged three more men suspected of helping to arm the radical who crushed 86 people to death with a truck in Nice, a judicial source said on Saturday. The three, who were among 11 arrested on Monday in Nice and the western city of Nantes, were remanded into custody on Friday, said …