The Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV), the country’s top ecclesiastical authority, criticized the nation’s socialist regime this week for its abandonment of the victims of the deadly June earthquakes.
The animal rights group Humane World for Animals has treated hundreds of animals in Venezuela following the deadly June 24 twin earthquakes that struck the South American nation, the group told Breitbart News this week.
The United States has invested over $310 million in humanitarian support for victims of Venezuela’s devastating June 24 earthquakes as of this week and delivered upwards of 60,000 food, hygiene, and other aid kits to victims, America’s top diplomat in the country told reporters on Tuesday.
Venezuelans denounced the disappearance of an earthquake rescue volunteer who criticized the socialist regime.
An international team of rescue workers from several countries on Thursday successfully rescued Venezuelan 43-year-old man Hernán Gil, who remained trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building for eight days after the deadly June 24 earthquakes.
Venezuelan journalist Carlos Salazar revealed during a broadcast on Wednesday that his sources believe that Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, wanted in the United States on narco-terrorism charges, is blocking search and rescue crews from accessing buildings destroyed by last week’s earthquakes to protect stashes of drugs and cash buried there.
Venezuelan police officers attempted to steal a box of U.S. dollars from the ruins of a collapsed building in La Guaira.
A three year-old Venezuelan boy was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building by Jordanian emergency workers on Tuesday — six days after the devastating earthquakes that struck the South American nation.
The horrifying situation in Venezuela – where dual earthquakes have toppled over 800 buildings, leaving potentially thousands buried under rubble – has the potential to tear apart the fragile alliances that have kept the post-Maduro socialist regime in power.
Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello allegedly blocked a U.S. rescue team from helping Venezuelans in La Guaira.
U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) continues to assist American relief efforts in Venezuela led by the State Department after last week’s deadly earthquakes.
A baby was miraculously rescued alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Venezuela on Thursday, one of several amazing rescues that have raised the spirits of survivors and rescue workers as they struggle with the aftermath of the powerful quakes that devastated several Venezuelan cities.
America’s expansive, near-immediate response to aid victims of the twin earthquakes in Venezuela on Wednesday has defied ominous predictions that streamlining the country’s international response by eliminating USAID would leave it flat-footed in the face of disaster.
Venezuelans living abroad have spent the past hours desperately trying to contact their relatives after Wednesday’s deadly earthquakes.
The interim “president” of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez issued several statements on Wednesday thanking the government of the United States for offering aid following a devastating earthquake in her country — a dramatic reversal from her previous stance of actively discouraging starving Venezuelans from accepting American aid.
The huge Hongqi Bridge in China’s Sichuan province, touted as a major achievement in China’s infrastructure boom, collapsed into the river it once spanned on Tuesday.
Texas experienced a series of earthquakes Friday, but, luckily, the state known for doing everything big doesn’t match the intensity of tremors Californians and other coastal communities experience.
The mayor of Suzu, Japan, said “90 percent of houses” in the small peninsula town were either “completely or nearly completely destroyed.”
There is no such thing as a natural disaster only the failure of humans to prepare for events beyond their control, a United Nations office warns.
The Chinese Communist Party has documented the deaths of 127 people as of press time on Tuesday and hundreds of injuries as a result of a series of earthquakes in northern Gansu province, the largest of which measured 6.2 magnitude.
The United Nations estimated that 300,000 people were affected by Friday night’s magnitude 6.8 quake that left at least 2,000 dead.
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing more than 1,000 people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech. The full toll was not known as rescuers struggled to get through boulder-strewn roads to the remote mountain villages hit hardest.
Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), on Wednesday filed complaints about thousands of alleged irregularities at ballot boxes in Sunday’s election, when incumbent authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dramatically outperformed his poll numbers and came within half a point of winning an immediate victory over favored challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu.
The Washington Post on Sunday described classified U.S. intelligence documents included in the “Discord Leaks” – the trove of documents exposed by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira to impress his friends on the Discord messaging platform – that said Iran concealed weapons in its humanitarian aid shipments to Syrian victims of the massive earthquakes in February.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday bumped the June presidential election ahead to May 14, ostensibly to avoid conflicting with the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and university entrance exams.
Thousands of women in Turkey defied an official ban to hold an International Women’s Day march in Istanbul on Wednesday.
Journalists in Turkey, attempting to document or comment on the aftermath of a series of severe earthquakes that began on February 6, are facing both the hanging threat of government abuse and attacks from devastated earthquake victims, robbers, and assorted militias, multiple reports revealed on Tuesday.
Germany is using the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as an excuse to weaken border controls, vowing to allow in many more migrants said to be fleeing the crisis.
The confirmed death toll from Monday’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria passed 19,000 on Thursday.
The Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign affairs announced on Wednesday that the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” will send 10 million Afghanis in aid (about $111,000) to Turkey, and half that amount to Syria, “on the basis of shared humanity and Islamic brotherhood” after Monday’s extremely destructive earthquakes.
Desperate searches for survivors from multiple earthquakes that rocked Turkey and Syria over the past 48-hours continued Tuesday with the discovery of more bodies taking the death toll past 5,000.
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake centered near Buffalo shook Western New York early Monday morning. It is reportedly the largest to hit the area in 30 years.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.4 struck Northern California on New Year’s Day — less than two weeks after a larger, 6.4 magnitude quake struck the coast nearby.
Bay Area residents received a wake-up call early Thursday morning in the form of a 3.6 magnitude earthquake just outside of San Francisco.
SPARTA, N.C. — Officials say an earthquake shook much of North Carolina early Sunday, rattling homes, buildings and residents.
Scientists are estimating that California has an 11 percent chance of experiencing another earthquake in the coming weeks.
The NAACP’s Portland, Oregon, chapter is claiming the city’s policy requiring signage on certain buildings to warn about potential earthquake damage is ongoing housing discrimination aimed at black Americans.
Ankara’s outspoken mayor on Tuesday warned that outside forces could be using sophisticated technology to try to trigger a manmade earthquake in a deliberate bid to harm Turkey’s fragile economy.
An earthquake-induced avalanche that buried a hotel in central Italy last week has killed a total of 29 people according to latest reports.
An earthquake-induced avalanche has enveloped a small hotel in central Italy, where at least 30 are missing and many presumed dead.
