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Emergency workers search for survivors in a collapsed building.

Venezuela earthquakes: International rescue teams join the search for survivors as death toll surpasses 1,400

More than 2,000 rescue workers from 27 countries have been deployed to Venezuela to locate people trapped under the rubble following the twin earthquakes on Wednesday, in a deployment supported and…
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People protest against immigration policies in the US state of California.

Deaths in US immigration custody must be investigated: UN rights chief

A woman sells vegetables in a camp for displaced people in Kassala, Sudan.

Sudan: Window is closing to prevent wider escalation in El Obeid

The Strait of Hormuz links the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman.

Strait of Hormuz: UN evacuates 2,500 seafarers before attack freezes rescue operation

A woman arrives at a food distribution site in Haiti.

World News in Brief: Violence displaces thousands in Haiti and Lebanon, Gaza updates, UN food agency delivers in Ebola-stricken DR Congo

A laboratory worker holds samples of synthetic drugs and marijuana.

Global drug use reaches record high as increasingly potent synthetic drugs spread

Debris clearance in El Paraíso, southwestern Caracas, following the double earthquake disaster in Venezuela on Wednesday.

Venezuela quake: ‘People still terrified to re-enter what were their homes’

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