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Pictures of people working in shops and restaurants in Caracas as a widespread blackout hit Venezuela, including the capital Caracas, from dawn in what the authorities are blaming on "sabotage" and an attempted coup, a month after the disputed re-election of Nicolas Maduro. IMAGES
Images of Caracas residents as a blackout leaves most of Venezuela without power in what authorities blamed on sabotage of the national electrical grid -- the latest crisis to hit the oil-rich country after a disputed presidential election. IMAGES
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who has mostly been in hiding since the country's July 28 presidential polls, arrives for a "Protest for the Truth" in Caracas against Nicolas Maduro's disputed claim of having won re-election. IMAGES
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, walk into the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas, where they join other presidential candidates who have been summoned. Venezuela's supreme court has summoned all candidates to a hearing following Maduro's request that it initiate a process to investigate and certify the election result. IMAGES
Venezuelans vote between continuity in President Nicolas Maduro or change in rival Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia amid high tension following the incumbent's threat of a "bloodbath" if he loses. IMAGES