The border shutdown coincides with Maduro's decision to withdraw from circulation the 100-bolivar note, the country's largest-denominated bill but worth only about $0.3.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has arrived on a state visit to Cambodia, where a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen will bring together two Southeast Asian leaders known for their tough-guy approach to governing.
Nigeria's Akwa Ibom state government says only 23 people died in a collapsed church, an apparent attempt to cover up the true toll when the metal girders and corrugated iron roof crashed onto a crowded service over the weekend.
Twelve people have been arrested in southern India for not standing while the national anthem was being played at an international film festival, police said Tuesday.
Pope Francis is marking his 80th birthday on Saturday with a morning Mass with his cardinals and an otherwise "normal" day of back-to-back meetings and audiences.
A judge in Sicily has convicted a ship captain and crew member in the April 2015 sinking that left 700 people dead in one of the Mediterranean's worst migrant disasters.
Malaysia and Singapore have signed an agreement to build a high-speed railway that will cut travel time between Kuala Lumpur and the city-state to just 90 minutes by 2026.
Funded by Britain, a wall has been built to stop migrants from jumping onto trucks in the northern French city of Calais heading across the English Channel.
A Spaniard who carried out a killing for a right-wing paramilitary death squad in the 1980s was arrested Tuesday for allegedly preparing to carry out an Islamic State-inspired suicide attack, the Interior Ministry said.
A lawyer for a Swiss man connected with Malaysia's massive 1MDB financial scandal says he is expected to be freed soon from a Thai prison under a royal pardon applying to thousands of inmates.
Two Yazidi women who escaped sexual enslavement by the Islamic State group have accepted the European Union's Sakharov Prize for human rights and said they would continue to be a voice for others suffering a similar fate.