1. Venezuela's opposition is calling for mass protests to take place on Saturday from citizens at home and abroad.
The opposition wants marchers to carry printed-out ballot tallies that its volunteers gatheredfrom 80% of poll sites showing its candidate Edmundo González Urrutia won.
The regime of Nicolás Maduro, who claims without evidence that he won a third term during the July 28 elections, has carried out mass arrests of protesters and people who helped gather the vote tallies.
2. A chamber of Peru's high court is letting former President Alberto Fujimori off the hook, for the moment, on criminal accusations that his government ordered and carried out forced sterilizations of Indigenous women in the 1990s.
The case, one of several Fujimori has faced, hadn't accounted for some of the changes to the criminal code from 2004, the associated judges said.
The judges left the door open for prosecutors to file the case again.
Fujimori could soon also dodge another pending trial for a 1992 massacre, as an amnesty law denounced by international organizations is close to being enacted.
