VENEZUELA: The main opposition coalition complained early today that electoral authorities didn’t let it register its presidential candidate as the deadline ended.

The candidate, Corina Yoris, could not be registered by midnight on Monday, which was the time limit for registering for the election set for July 28, said Omar Barboza, representative of the US-sponsored Unitary Platform coalition.

PAKISTAN:  A suicide bomber in north-west Pakistan rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle today, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials said.

The attack happened in Shangla, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, local police chief Bakhat Zahir said. He said that the five killed were construction workers and engineers.

CHINA: China filed a World Trade Organisation complaint against the United States today over what it says are discriminatory requirements for electric vehicle subsidies.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry didn’t say what prompted the move. 

But the US has placed a number of blocks on Chinese trading activities over recent months as part of its ongoing campaign to undermine Chinese exports and shore up its own manufacturing.

HUNGARY: A former government insider turned critic released an audio recording today that he says proves that top officials conspired to cover up corruption.

The country’s largest protests in years erupted in early February when it was revealed that the president had issued a pardon to a man imprisoned for covering up child sexual abuses by the director of a state-run orphanage.

Close allies of Hungarian President Viktor Orban allies were forced to resign.