EU-backed group calls for political solution to Venezuela crisis

International pressure on Maduro to step down has intensified this week as a flood of EU members followed the U.S. move to recognise opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president of the economically shattered South American nation.Russia and China continue to back Maduro and have warned Washington and others not to intervene.Holding its inaugural meeting in Uruguay's capital Montevideo, the European Union-backed International Contact Group on Venezuela called for a more hands-off approach t