CARACAS: International powers voiced alarm Thursday at the Venezuelan Supreme Court's move to seize power from the opposition-led legislature, in what was widely branded as amounting to a coup.

The court's move tightened socialist President Nicolas Maduro's grip on power after more than a year in which he was locked in a political struggle with the center-right opposition.

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