CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said authorities arrested two U.S. citizens among a group of “mercenaries” on Monday, a day after a beach raid purportedly aimed at capturing the socialist leader that authorities say they foiled.
At least 100 pedestrians were wandering the area when the cars began roaring down Times Square’s main drag Saturday.
An autopsy Monday found the victim died of drowning, the Charleston County Coroner’s Office said.
At a video-conference summit, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) target being sought to help find a vaccine, new treatments and better tests for the disease would be merely a “down-payment” on the tools that will be needed to fight the virus.
