The Venezuelan military planned to send additional troops to a border region where unrest has been particularly fierce, officials said.

Venezuelan intelligence agents arrested three suspected members of a Colombian paramilitary group, including a police officer from a town near the countries’ shared border, and seized a weapons cache, President Hugo Chavez’s government announced.

A riot at one of Venezuela's most violent prisons left eight inmates dead and three injured.

Venezuela today closed its border with Colombia across three western states amid concerns about a mild strain of bird flu detected in the neighbouring country.