News of the Day From Around the World

Leading Venezuela opposition leader Henrique Capriles announced Friday that he has been banned from running for office for 15 years.

The next year, he was again the opposition’s presidential candidate and lost to current president Nicolas Maduro by a small margin.

The party of Gambia’s new president won a comfortable majority of seats in parliament after two decades of domination by the party of former leader Yahya Jammeh, the Independent Electoral Commission announced Friday.

Barrow, who beat Jammeh in December elections, has promised economic improvements, greater freedoms and a path toward reconciliation in this tiny West African country.

Jammeh’s government was long accused of rights abuses.

[...] imagery is increasingly being relied on by investigators to document destruction during South Sudan’s three-year civil war, which has killed tens of thousands and sent more than 1.7 million people fleeing the country.

Train crash: A fast train hit a flatbed truck at an unguarded railway crossing Friday in southwestern Poland, sending 19 people to the hospital, including seven with life-threatening injuries, officials said.

The accident occurred in the village of Schodnia, when an intercity train carrying about 300 passengers hit the vehicle, said a spokesman for national firefighters.

Doctors Without Borders began a huge measles vaccination campaign with Guinea’s government after 14 deaths and more than 3,400 cases were confirmed this year.

The aid group said Friday that thousands of people were left unprotected in 2014 and 2015 when the Ebola outbreak swept through the West African nation.

Vaccination activities were reduced because of infection risks, and frightened families stayed away from health centers.

Ebola killed more than 11,300 people in the region and devastated health care systems.

Andreea Cristea, a 31-year-old Romanian architect who plunged into the River Thames when a terrorist plowed a vehicle into pedestrians in London, became the fourth victim to die as a result of the attack last month, police said Friday.