Venezuela’s Maduro says he is ‘innocent’, declares he is ‘president of my country’

Abducted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro told a New York court on Monday he was innocent and an upright person as he and his wife entered pleas of not guilty on charges of narcoterrorism and possession of illegal weapons after being forcibly taken into US custody following a US strike on his Caracas compound 60 hours earlier. During the brief hearing where the charges were read out and pleas entered, Maduro, 63, took notes, asked the judge to allow him to hold on to them and opted not to ask...