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Guyana-Venezuela border tensions soar

Venezuela says joint US-Guyana military exercises a 'provocation'

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Calls mounted Thursday for calm to prevail as Venezuela said it saw a 'provocation' in joint US-Guyana military exercises and vowed to pursue the 'recovery' of an oil-rich region both neighbors claim as their own.

The UN Security Council called an urgent meeting for Friday on the fast-escalating row that Guyana said 'threatens international peace and security.'