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The assembly, dominated by lawmakers who are allies of former president Nicolás Maduro, passed the bill with the backing of interim President Delcy Rodríguez, who assumed office after Maduro was seized in a US military operation earlier this month.

The cost of living crisis is well documented and for many people a mortgage is a millstone around their necks – but a growing number have chosen to cut costs by swapping their houses for a narrowboat. The BBC took to the waterside in Leeds to find out how it’s worked out for some of…

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IndiGo controls about two-thirds of the country’s domestic aviation market, so the inconvenience caused by the disruptions was huge. Thousands of people missed important life events, including funerals and their own weddings, and were left scrambling to make alternate arrangements.