Fire destroys most voting machines in Venezuela's main elections warehouse

On Sunday, Venezuela's elections council said that a fire over the weekend destroyed most of the voting machines stored in its main warehouse in the capital, Caracas potentially complicating parliamentary elections scheduled for this year. Nearly 50,000 voting machines and almost 600 computers went up in flames of the fire that broke out on Saturday, said elections council chief.

The South American country's elections have come under heavy criticism since President Nicolas Maduro's 2018 re-election was widely dismissed as rigged in his favour, leading dozens of governments around the world to reject his government. Maduro's rivals are demanding that the country instead hold a new presidential election. A date for that vote has not been set.