COSTA RICA: Voters went to the polls today, with a continuity candidate expected to succeed outgoing conservative president Rodrigo Chaves.

Sovereign People’s Party’s candidate Laura Fernandez was Mr Chaves’s minister of national planning and economic policy. 

She has maintained a comfortable lead in the polls, but today’s voting would determine whether she wins outright or has to face a run-off on April 5 against one of the 20 other contenders.

DENMARK: Hundreds of veterans and thousands of supporters staged a silent protest on Saturday outside the US embassy in Copenhagen in response to Donald Trump’s threats to seize Greenland and the US president’s belittling of Danish soldiers.

“We feel let down and ridiculed by the Trump administration, which is deliberately disregarding Denmark’s combat side by side with the USA,” the organisers said.

The attendees planted 52 Danish flags outside the US embassy bearing the names of the Danish soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq.

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: A landslide earlier this week collapsed several mines at a major coltan extraction site in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead, rebel authorities said on Saturday.

The collapse took place on Wednesday at the Rubaya mines, which are controlled by the M23 rebels, a spokesman for the rebel-appointed governor of North-Kivu province said. He added that the landslide had been caused by heavy rain.

“For now, there are more than 200 dead, some of whom are still in the mud and have not yet been recovered,” he said.

VENEZUELA: Acting President Delcy Rodriguez announced an amnesty Bill on Friday night that could lead to the release of hundreds of prisoners.

It is the latest concession Ms Rodriguez has made since taking the reins of the country on January 3 after the brazen kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro in a US military attack.

“May this law serve to heal the wounds left by the political confrontation fuelled by violence and extremism,” she said. “May it serve to redirect justice in our country and may it serve to redirect co-existence among Venezuelans.”