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    Video CNN reporter recounts herculean effort by rescue teams to save man trapped for eight days under earthquake rubble 2:30
  • TOPSHOT - An international rescue team assists a survivor of Venezuela's twin earthquakes in Catia La Mar, La Guaira State, Venezuela on July 2, 2026, eight days after the quake. Hernan Gil, a 43-year-old security guard, had been buried in the booth of the seven-story building where he worked in Catia La Mar, a coastal area in the state of La Guaira devastated by the disaster. (Photo by Federico PARRA / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Man pulled from rubble in ‘miraculous’ rescue 8 days after devastating Venezuela earthquakes
  • Members of the French 7th Civil Security Training and Intervention Regiment make a recognition in a damaged building in Catia La Mar, La Guaira state, Venezuela, on June 29, 2026.
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    As Venezuelan morgues fill and the death toll slowly rises, questions remain about how many are truly gone
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    A visual guide to the Venezuela earthquakes
  • Residents search through the rubble of a building that collapsed after earthquakes struck La Guaira, Venezuela, on Sunday, June 28.
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    Venezuelans scour collapsed buildings by hand while government machinery stands unused
  • A group of relatives of Peruvians sent to Russia holding a candlelit vigil outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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    Peruvians say they were promised jobs in Russia, but landed on the front lines in Ukraine
  • Rescue workers evacuate an injured person from a collapsed building following an earthquake in Caracas on June 24, 2026. Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 struck the same area of Venezuela on the evening of June 24, causing buildings to collapse, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and AFP journalists. The quakes drove residents of the capital, Caracas, into the streets. (Photo by Manaure Quintero / AFP via Getty Images)
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    What we know about Venezuela’s biggest earthquake in more than a century
  • Collapsed apartment building are seen in La Guaria, Venezula on Thursday, June 25.
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    The coastal state battered by Venezuela’s earthquakes is no stranger to tragedy
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    Two quakes rattle Venezuela within a minute, causing damage and state of emergency 3:55
  • Abelardo de la Espriella in Barranquilla, Colombia, on Sunday, June 21.
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    Colombia bets on ‘the Tiger,’ a Trump-backed far-right populist headed for the presidency
  • Police intervene in clashes between blockaders and residents, after Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz declared a nationwide state of emergency following weeks of violence and blockades, in El Alto, Bolivia, June 20, 2026. REUTERS/Claudia Morales
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    Bolivia’s president declares state of emergency over blockade crisis
  • A drone view shows a fire at the Viva Wyndham Dominicus Beach Hotel in Bayahibe, La Altagracia, Dominican Republic, on June 19, 2026.
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    Woman killed, 1,700 evacuated in beach hotel fire in Dominican Republic
  • Subtronics and Oliver Tree perform at the Sahara Tent during the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 12, 2026 in Indio, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for Coachella)
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    American singer Oliver Tree listed aboard helicopter involved in fatal midair collision in Brazil
  • Soldiers raid the Tocorón Penitentiary Center, where the Tren de Aragua gang originated, in Tocorón, Venezuela, Sept. 20, 2023.
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    Who was Niño Guerrero? The alleged drug kingpin the US killed in Venezuela
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  • New York Knicks Karl-Anthony Towns (center-left) and Jose Alvarado (front-right) help the team lift the trophy after defeating the Cleveland Cavaliers in game four of the eastern conference finals for the 2026 NBA playoffs in May 2026.
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    The Latino duo helping fuel the Knicks’ historic NBA Finals run
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  • Larvae of the screwworm fly that were extracted from cows lie at an inspection center of Honduras' Secretary of Agriculture and Livestock, in Valle de Jamastran, Honduras, May 21, 2025.
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    Flesh-eating screwworm has reached the US — a comeback driven by organized crime
  • Mexico cardboard cutouts are seen outside a shop on June 10, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico.
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    From cartels to street vendors: Here’s who stands to profit (or not) from World Cup tourism in Mexico
  • A man walks past a house in the Playa neighborhood in Havana on April 23, 2026. Price hikes in some neighborhoods, intermediaries activity in social media, and growing interest from Cuban-American emigres: Havana's real estate market shows signs of revival in anticipation of possible economic or political changes on the communist island.
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    The $9 billion issue at the heart of US-Cuba tensions
  • Cuban doctors hold a national flag upon arrival at Palmerola International Airport, 50 kms north of Tegucigalpa, on February 27, 2024. The 100 medical specialists-brigade will stay in Honduras for two years and includes anaesthesiologists, oncologists, neurosurgeons, cardiologists, and endocrinologists.
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    Cuba’s doctors are its biggest soft power export. Several Latin American countries are cutting ties
  • Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Economic Club Of New York luncheon in New York on May 28, 2026.
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    Canada is failing the Jewish community and Jews are being targeted, Carney says
  • Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella of the political movement Defenders of the Homeland shows his ballot at a polling station during the first round of the presidential election, in Barranquilla, Colombia May 31, 2026.
    Sergio Acero/Reuters
    Colombian presidency goes to runoff election that could redefine relations with the US
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