Venezuela primary results suspended in latest blow directed at opposition

Maria Corina Machado was overwhelmingly elected to take on Nicolas Maduro in presidential election expected next year

Venezuela's supreme court has suspended the results of the political opposition's primaries after Maria Corina Machado was overwhelmingly elected last Sunday to take on President Nicolas Maduro in a presidential contest expected for 2024.

The court - which is stacked with Maduro's allies - also ratified bans on running for office which had been slapped on Machado and two others.