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Washington is tying itself closely to a government that faces public anger over its response to devastating earthquakes

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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Before Football Daily’s inbox is flooded by an angry reader with fingers busier than Arsenal fans at a Viktor Gyökores lookalike contest, we would like to shout from the rooftops that Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest male football players of all time. How far up or down that list is another matter, but there is no denying his place at the top table of our sport. Clutch moments, sublime bits of skill and athleticism, a trophy cabinet big enough to holiday in: Ronaldo has done (almost) everything for club and country. But time waits for no man. Football died a bit yesterday, didn’t it? No one actually saw the ball touch Igor Matanovic’s head for Croatia against Portugal. The ball’s trajectory didn’t change significantly, even the ball’s spin didn’t change. Yet the computer sensor felt something, and thus we must all bow to it. What’s objective to a machine is more objective than our own sense apparatus. This feels momentous – not a ‘paradigm shift’ or anything so dramatic, but it does encapsulate in a neat anecdote how our attitude to technology has been changing over the decades, how we feel happier and happier to delegate important decisions to it, how we become, in a literal way, ever more irresponsible. The GWC, as several of your own writers have already described it, is a weirdly warped microcosm of the world at large. And what happened yesterday can be read as a very ill omen” – Fábio Ribeiro. Continue reading...

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the first clinical trial of experimental treatments targeting the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), marking a major milestone in efforts to contain the country's latest outbreak.

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Argentina fans flood Miami for Cape Verde match

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Natural disasters have accelerated political change elsewhere in the region.

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Two weeks after the #earthquakes that devastated #Venezuela, #rescue teams are looking for the last signs of life as hope of finding any more #survivors fades. More than 2,500 people have died so far. FRANCE 24's Maxime Pluvinet tells us about how the country still looks for its missing.

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The humanitarian cargo includes tents for the temporary accommodation of displaced people, food, medicines needed under the current circumstances

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Delcy Rodríguez has hit back at criticism over her government’s response to the quakes, rejecting accusations of slow rescue efforts and claims that official casualty figures have been under-reported.

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Rescuers are continuing to dig through rubble in a search for survivors across Venezuela even as the hope of finding anyone alive eight days after two huge earthquakes struck the country become increasingly slim. Meanwhile, Venezuela's Interim President Delcy Rodriguez rejected allegations that her government reacted too slowly to the disaster, which has killed more than 2,000 people, after days of widespread criticism of the official response.

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World Meteorological Organization forecasts more likelihood of heatwaves, droughts and heavy rainfall due to El Nino.

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A major wildfire in France's Aude department burns 900 hectares as aircraft and firefighters battle the blaze and evacuees reach emergency shelters.

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Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodriguez on Thursday rejected allegations that her government reacted ⁠too slowly to destruction caused by two earthquakes which killed more than 2,000 people, after days of widespread criticism of the official response. Civilians of all stripes - including survivors, family members, volunteer paramedics and foreign rescue teams - have descended on disaster areas, especially the hardest-hit northern state of La Guaira, since the 7.2 and 7.5-magnitude quakes...

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Delcy Rodriguez says 80% of the buildings that collapsed in earthquakes were privately developed.

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M6.4 earthquake strikes off Japan's Miyakojima Island

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Analysts’ expectations for S&P 500 earnings are rising at fastest rate since the rebound from Covid pandemic

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A demonstration wheat plot in China’s vast Taklamakan Desert has produced a harvest nearly double the national average yield recorded in 2025, according to a project announcement. The wheat, known as Jingmai 189, was developed by the Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences to withstand drought, saline soil and nutrient-poor land. The trial on a managed, heavily saline plot produced a harvest of 768kg per mu (about 11.5 tonnes per hectare or 10,278lbs per acre) compared with the...

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Delcy Rodriguez separately said the government would announce economic measures aimed at rebuilding the country on Friday

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Rescuers dug out a 44-year-old survivor trapped in the ruins of the mall where he worked in the Venezuelan state of ​La Guaira, more than a week after two strong earthquakes devastated the country's northern coast.

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Venezuela earthquake death toll rises to 2,595, interim president says

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Portugal declares alert as extreme heat raises wildfire risk

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This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kong’s weather forecaster will keep the No 1 typhoon signal in force until at least Friday evening, after which it will assess whether to issue the No 3 warning depending on the tropical storm’s intensity. The Hong Kong Observatory said Tropical Storm Maysak was estimated to be about 670km (416 miles) southwest of Hong Kong and was forecast to move...

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WHO declares cruise-linked hantavirus outbreak over as final exposed person completes quarantine and tests negative.

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Chinese community in Venezuela rallies to help after earthquakes

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In tonight's edition, Algerians headed out to parliamentary elections in an exercise overshadowed by the sidelining of hundreds of would-be candidates. Also, dozens have died in severe flooding in Ivory Coast. And in Cameroon, a waterfront community once surrounded by black volcanic sands sees their environmental heritage swamped by tons of rubbish.

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Rescuers and family members continue their relentless efforts to find people still missing in the rubble of La Guaira, more than a week after devastating earthquakes hit Venezuela.

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Attention has turned to the humanitarian response after at least 2,295 people are confirmed dead, and 13,000 homeless.

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The World Health Organization on Thursday declared an end to the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship which sparked international alarm, after the last person left quarantine. There were 12 confirmed and one probable case stemming from the MV Hondius, including three deaths. But while the outbreak is now over, for scientists and experts, the work is only in its early stages, as they try to learn lessons from the episode that triggered a global health alert. “Today, the final contact of a...

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The earthquakes destroyed tens of thousands of buildings across northern Venezuela, killing more than 2,200 people, and leaving La Guaira state as the hardest-hit region in the country.

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Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced on Thursday after pulling a 43-year-old man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days after deadly twin earthquakes. With the official death toll nearing 2,300 and huge numbers of people still missing, the rescue of security guard Hernan Gil after so long under the rubble was greeted as a miracle. Gil was brought out on a stretcher after a painstaking operation to extract him from the collapsed seven-storey building where he...

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Excavators and cranes ground to a halt at some rescue sites in Venezuela as fuel shortages hampered recovery efforts after last week’s earthquake, leaving crews unable to clear debris in some of the hardest-hit areas of La Guaira state.