BERLIN: Three suspected former guards of the Auschwitz death camp run by the Nazis during World War II have been arrested in southwestern Germany, the public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart said on Thursday.

CARACAS: Venezuelan security forces and demonstrators faced off in streets blocked by burning barricades in several provincial cities on Thursday as protests escalated against President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government.

 LONDON: The European Commission has dragged Britain to court for failing to deal with its air pollution.

KIEV, Ukraine: The office of Ukraine's embattled president says he and leaders of the country's raging protests have called for a truce.

WASHINGTON: The Homeland Security Department has warned airlines that terrorists could try to hide explosives in shoes. It's the second time in less than three weeks that the government has issued a warning about possible attempts to smuggle explosives on a commercial jetliner.

WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed visa bans on about 20 senior Ukrainian officials accused of backing the deadly repression of protesters in Kiev, a US diplomat said on Wednesday.

SOCHI, Russia: Two members of the punk group Pussy Riot ran out of a police station in their trademark garish balaclavas on Tuesday after being released following several hours of questioning in Sochi, the host city of the Winter Olympics.

LONDON: Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency analyst who revealed US surveillance of phone and Internet communications, was elected rector of Glasgow University in Scotland today.

CARACAS: Opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez emerged from days of hiding and surrendered to police before thousands of supporters Tuesday, saying he hopes his arrest awakens Venezuela to the corruption and economic disaster caused by 15 years of socialist rule.

JUBA (South Sudan): More than 20 South Sudanese soldiers have been charged with murdering civilians, a South Sudanese military official said on Monday.