Opposition leaders targeted by investigation amid Venezuela protest crackdown
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Venezuela's attorney general, Tarek Saab, announced a new criminal probe against opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez and leader Maria Corina Machado after they posted a letter urging the country's security forces to "stand by the people" protesting President Nicolás Maduro's contested victory at July 28's presidential election.