Venezuela
Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:01:00 GMTUK sends a 68-strong search and rescue team and £2 million in aid to Venezuela
The United Kingdom on Friday deployed a specialist search and rescue team of 68 people and announced an initial £2 million (about $2.7 million) in humanitarian funding to support the response to the earthquakes that devastated...
Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:52:00 GMTVenezuela's quake death toll climbs to 589 as the rescue window narrows
The number of victims from the twin earthquake that struck north-central Venezuela on Wednesday rose to at least 589 dead and 2,980 injured, according to the toll given on Friday by acting President Delcy Rodríguez, who warned...
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:51:00 GMTFishermen film the first seconds of Venezuela's earthquake from the sea off La Guaira
A group of fishermen working off the coast of La Guaira state captured on video the moment when the two earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 that shook Venezuela began on Wednesday and that, according to the latest official tol...
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:30:00 GMTTwo powerful earthquakes strike northern Venezuela and collapse buildings in Caracas
Two powerful earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, about 39 seconds apart, struck north-central Venezuela on Wednesday afternoon, collapsing buildings in the capital, Caracas, and leaving rescue teams working through the rubble...
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:04:00 GMTVenezuela's earthquake toll rises to at least 164 dead and nearly 1,000 injured
The number of victims from the twin earthquake that struck north-central Venezuela rose to at least 164 dead and 971 injured, acting President Delcy Rodríguez reported on Thursday, warning that the figure would keep rising as ...
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:41:00 GMTOffers of aid pour in for Venezuela from across the Americas and beyond after its earthquake
Governments from across the Americas and other regions of the world expressed solidarity with Venezuela and offered assistance after the twin earthquake of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 that struck the north-central part of the country...
Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:59:00 GMTVenezuela's earthquake tests US assistance to the interim government it helped install
The twin earthquake that struck north-central Venezuela has become the first major test of US assistance to the interim government of Delcy Rodríguez, installed after the capture of former president Nicolás Maduro in a US mil...
Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:49:00 GMTUS-backed opposition figure Figuera returns to Venezuela to negotiate a 'credible' electoral body
Opposition figure Dinorah Figuera, president of the National Assembly elected in 2015 and exiled in Spain for nearly eight years, returned to Venezuela on Thursday at the invitation of the US State Department to negotiate a "cr...
Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:31:00 GMTSpain's ex-PM Zapatero testifies as a suspect in the Plus Ultra bailout case
Spain's former Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appeared on Wednesday before Judge José Luis Calama, of the Audiencia Nacional, as an investigated person in the Plus Ultra case, in what constitutes an unprecedente...
Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:02:00 GMTTrump says a US strike killed Niño Guerrero, leader of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang
US President Donald Trump announced on Friday night that his country's Southern Command had killed, in a “swift and lethal” strike, Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias Niño Guerrero, whom he described as the leader ...