This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Nigel Adelie and in the early hours of Friday of the 26th of July,

these are our main stories.

The candidates in Venezuela's presidential election have been holding their final

rallies amid concerns over whether President Nicholas Mordordo would accept the outcome on Sunday.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris

to discuss efforts towards a ceasefire for hostages deal in Gaza.

A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Togry in the north of Ethiopia.

We're here for my reporter.

Also in this podcast. This is an industry that's been under attack in Washington.

Disproportionally so, and so I think it's completely valid for the industry to stick up for itself

and defend its interests. Why cryptocurrency is having its say in the US election?

In a year of election campaigns across the globe, Venezuela has been particularly combative.

Nicholas Mordordo of the Socialist Party is confronting his toughest electoral challenge

since taking office 11 years ago.

Opposition leader Edmondo Gonzalez is leading many opinion polls promising a return to what he calls

genuine democracy.

Mr Gonzalez became the surprise opposition candidate after leading political figure Maria Karina Machado

was barred from standing. She has spent the last few months traveling the country

calling on people to vote for him.

This moment we are living in is an end of a cycle and the beginning of a new era,

the end of a cycle of chaos to begin an era of order, stability and security, and an end to violence

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