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According to official figures, 1,943 people were killed and 10,571 were injured in the two earthquakes measuring magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 that struck Venezuela on June 24
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As frustration with the government disaster response grows, everyday citizens are organising to distribute aid.
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One week after Venezuela's twin earthquakes, more than 1,900 are confirmed dead while tens of thousands are missing.
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Over-by-over report from the match at Chester-le-Street Root stands alone after Stokes signs off | Email James 1st over: India 5-0 (Samson 1, Sharma 4) India’s opening pair are the two Ss: right handed Samson, left handed Sharma (not that one). The left-armed Luke Wood has a little shake of his wrist at the Finchdale end while Samson waits for something in his eye line to be readjusted. Grabs a single from his third ball and Sharma unfurls a pitch perfect lofted drive for four. The floodlights are on at Durham and there are sizeable pockets of slightly disappointed India fans who were hoping to see Sooryavanshi. Here comes Harry Brook, leading England onto the field only two days after he lost the Test series with England in that chaotic emotional last day and a bit. Continue reading...
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The latest outbreak of xenophobic violence is a betrayal of the nations that aided its freedom struggle
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Nearly a week after two devastating earthquakes hit Venezuela, dramatic security camera footage has emerged showing the moment the tremors struck. In the video filmed in La Guaira, the region hit-hardest by the quakes, people can be seen fleeing in panic as cracks open in the ground, while in the background several buildings collapse.
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A week after devastating twin earthquakes struck Venezuela, many families are still searching for loved ones amid the rubble even as the hope of finding survivors dwindles. FRANCE 24 travelled to La Guaira, the region hardest-hit by the earthquakes, to meet some of those still desperately looking for the missing. “What I want is to see him,” said one man looking for his father “whether he's alive or dead. To find peace”.
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Move follows Flood Re being saddled with expensive properties that have made scheme ‘regressive’
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Oman India Fertiliser Co.’s initial public offering has drawn over $12 billion in orders, in the Middle East’s largest listing since the outbreak of the regional conflict.
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In Venezuela, a rescue operation in La Guaira has succeeded in getting a toddler out alive from under the rubble, six days since the double-earthquake disaster.
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CIDCA: China provides anti-epidemic support to Africa
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Rescuers spent six hours carefully digging to reach one of the boys, as many residents continue searching through the rubble by hand, still waiting for heavy machinery to arrive.
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Foreign search and rescue teams have arrived in Venezuela to assist with the desperate and slow-moving search for survivors after the country's most powerful earthquake in more than a century. The death toll nearly doubled on Thursday to 920, but authorities warn the final number is expected to be far higher, with tens of thousands of people still reported missing. Frustration has also been growing over the official response and the limited resources available for rescue efforts.
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Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Germania Rodriguez Paleo, American-Venezuelan journalist and commentator, former US chief reporter for the Daily Mail. She offers a forceful political interpretation of Venezuela's earthquake disaster through the lens of institutional collapse and democratic illegitimacy. Rodriguez Paleo argues that while the earthquake itself was a natural event, the scale of the resulting humanitarian catastrophe was profoundly shaped by decades of political decay.
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Rescue teams in Venezuela are racing to find earthquake survivors as the critical 72-hour "golden window" nears.
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Venezuelans searched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings on Thursday and rescue teams raced to northern areas rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes that officials say killed at least 188 people and left more than 200 trapped. More were feared dead. The 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that struck on Wednesday evening were among the strongest in Venezuela in more than a century and were felt throughout the region. Some 1,500 people were injured, thousands were reported missing across...
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Golden oldies fighting for the golden boot? Let us not get ahead of ourselves. But it will do Cristiano Ronaldo’s ego no harm that he is off the mark at this World Cup, particularly in light of Lionel Messi’s voracious appetite to stoke fires that started long ago. Two first-half goals gave Houston’s public what they came for and laid an unfortunate run to rest. Until this contribution to what quickly became a leisurely non-contest, Ronaldo had not scored in 10 major tournament matches. Thank goodness, then, for an Uzbekistan defence that would have struggled to hold firm in a Masters game. There could have been no better opponent to help Ronaldo get his eye in, Nuno Mendes’ free-kick, an Abdukodir Khusanov own goal and Rafael Leão’s late adornment emphasising the point. Fabio Cannavaro’s players could not get near opponents of this level. Continue reading...
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The DR Congo has hit the highest confirmed number of cases in the first month of any Ebola outbreak in Africa. Meanwhile, Kenya's health minister says he is halting a US-backed Ebola quarantine center.
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On Monday morning, Keir Starmer emerged into the sunshine in Downing Street flanked by his staff and wife, his voice thick with emotion as he said he was no longer the right person to lead Britain. Starmer, who won one of the biggest landslides in British political history, is out after less than two years. The sixth leader to quit in 10 years. The highest rate of political turnover in almost two centuries. Like his predecessors, Starmer failed to stem popular anger over living standards,...
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The flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz is running at the fastest pace since the Iran war began — despite Tehran stating that the world’s key shipping chokepoint is shut and a report that the Islamic Republic continues to harass passing vessels.
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party (PP) won a landslide victory in legislative polls held June 1, the election commission said on Sunday, giving it almost 90 per cent of the seats. Abiy has led Ethiopia since 2018, and is increasingly criticised for growing authoritarianism, in contrast to his early years when he won the Nobel Peace Prize for mending relations with neighbouring Eritrea. The PP was considered the overwhelming favourite in the country of 130 million, facing a...
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Spain and Saudi Arabia fans filled the streets of Atlanta with chants and celebrations ahead of their World Cup clash.
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France has restricted public alcohol consumption and cancelled some outdoor sports events to cope with a heat wave unfurling across parts of Europe. Emergency services and military forces were also put on wildfire alert as about a third of France was placed under the national weather service’s heat red alert Sunday with temperatures expected to reach 40 Celsius in some areas.
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A China-led team has developed an AI system to detect space hurricanes, a phenomenon in the Earth’s upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite signals, radar and radio communications. While the hurricane-like atmospheric phenomenon can have major space weather effects, detection has so far relied on a tedious process of studying satellite images manually. The team said it had developed a new deep-learning system that could automatically detect and pinpoint space hurricanes through ultraviolet...
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Orchard Towers, a building in Singapore once notorious enough to earn the nickname “Four Floors of Whores”, has found an unlikely new tenant. On weekends, the site of former nightclubs, illegal massage parlours and at least one murder is now flooded with church-goers. Cornerstone Community Church officially opened weekly services at the Orchard Road landmark in January after buying six units on the fourth floor – formerly a nightclub – for S$54.5 million (US$42.3 million) in 2025. Experts say...
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In late April, China’s top intelligence agency claimed that foreign forces were weaponising the concept of “lying flat” to dispel young people’s “belief in striving” and undermine social values. Once a niche subculture, “lying flat” has evolved into a mainstream phenomenon over the past five years. “Lying flat” became a buzzword on Chinese social media around 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic. At the time, the phrase was usually applied to people who had completely dropped out of the rat...
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In Lubra, Nepal’s last Bon village, climate-driven floods are destroying homes and land, endangering ancient traditions.
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At least 30 people have died since the start of May in one camp for displaced civilians in northeastern Congo, a death rate that camp officials said was unprecedented, with some confirmed to have died from Ebola in a sign the disease could be spreading fast there. It was not possible to confirm the causes of all the deaths because patients or their relatives in Kigonze camp in Bunia – the epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo – had until Thursday refused testing, a...
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Ituri province in eastern DRC is the hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak. The response to the virus is underway. On the frontlines of this outbreak are healthcare workers, who feel increasingly helpless. They have never faced an outbreak of this magnitude before. Report by Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula, Paula Sevilles and Jorkim Jotham Pituwa.
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Major General Alexey Rtishchev reported the labs researched pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, Marburg and Ebola fevers, i.e. diseases with pandemic potential