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A macabre darkness, the glare of spotlights, the droning of generators and jackhammers, and often the stench of decomposing corpses: eight days after the double earthquake in Venezuela, nighttime in La Guaira, once a festive seaside resort, has transformed into a grim scene of survival and despair.The vast majority of the nearly 2,300 dead and thousands missing from the tragedy of June 24 are concentrated on the coast of La Guaira, where entire neighbourhoods have been razed.Nearly 200 buildings have completely collapsed, according to official figures, but local people say the number is higher.Some 15,000 homeless people are sleeping in tents in the streets, sports facilities, parks, vacant lots after one of Latin America's worst ever earthquake disasters.Everywhere, relatives, volunteers, and rescue workers are racing to recover bodies with the slim chance of finding survivors.But there have been glimmers of hope. Hernan Gil, 43, was astonishingly rescued from the rubble Thursday, eight days after the earthquakes, in Playa Grande, a neighbourhood of Catia La Mar."Sandwich of slabs" On a neighbouring plot of land, under the glare of floodlights, about 10 people are working to excavate a six-metre-high mountain, the remains of an eight-story building that collapsed "like a sandwich of slabs," explained Manuel Alejos, a crane operator."We're breaking slab by slab to free the bodies... Their families need the bodies to say their goodbyes," said the crane operator, who has already pulled seven bodies from the building."We still have the basement to do," he said, still hoping to find survivors.The stench of corpses filled the air.Angelo Gonzalez, a 27-year-old motorcycle taxi driver, and his friends arrived with water and pasta: "We're helping our brothers. We all have the same blood."On the docks, people wait on plastic chairs. A makeshift morgue has been set up to meet the demand.Owuar Herrera and 12 members of his family have been waiting since 5pm. He brought the bodies of his granddaughter, 10-year-old Dasleidy Herrera, and her grandmother, 50-year-old Mildred Moreno, both killed in the earthquakes."After a week of work, we found them today. They were embracing," he says.In Caraballeda, the other hardest-hit area, only a pile of rubble remains of the upscale Coral Beach residence.At the top, men were also working with spotlights to recover the body of Dennis Velasquez, 26, the son of their friend.Plastic bottles had been placed over the protruding metal to prevent injuries. The men worked like ants, forming a chain to pass buckets of small concrete blocks."We went past the penthouse, the 12th floor, and on the 11th we pulled out a family of six with a six-year-old child. On the 10th, there's my son," one of the rescuers, Carlos Velazquez, said."I've been here since day one. Even if I have to pull him out with my own fingernails, my son will rest in a proper cemetery," Velazquez said, his eyes filled with sadness but determination.His son's body was recovered shortly afterward.Cesar Gonzalez, 54, a Mexican firefighter and veterinarian, gives his two dogs, Zeus and Bom, water: "One is for detecting the living, the other for the dead. The more time passes, the less hope there is. Just two days ago, hope was much greater. Now, it would be a miracle," he explains.Already looted Police and soldiers are patrolling to prevent looting. Sergeant Yonder Maita, 24, is patrolling to protect rescue workers but especially to prevent theft: "There are people who break into houses to steal. Sometimes they pretend to be relatives. They take advantage of the situation."On many walls, the words "Already looted" are painted in black.On a soccer field, Maria Arteaga, 33, a mother of four, is preparing to sleep in an improvised shelter made of tarpaulins and a Venezuelan flag.On the floor, dirty mattresses found in the street will serve as sleeping quarters for nine people."The house... Everything, we've lost everything... Except our lives! We're even barefoot.""We didn't have much to begin with, but we've lost everything," adds a neighbour, Alexis Ramirez, 25, a tyre repairman.He lives with his two-year-old daughter, Mia, his wife, Fabiola, who is seven months pregnant, and his disabled mother-in-law.Is he afraid of becoming homeless? Of more aftershocks? Of thieves?"We've lost our fear." Related Story
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This illustration photograph taken Thursday shows the new upcoming Usernamer feature on US instant messaging software WhatsApp, displayed on a smartphone with the backdrop of India’s national flag in New Delhi. (AFP) India has asked Meta to hold off launching its username feature on WhatsApp in the world's most populous country, citing concerns over fraud and impersonation, media reports said Thursday.The move comes as authorities in India grapple with a spike in cybercrime, with scammers exploiting low digital safety awareness among millions of Internet users.WhatsApp, owned by US tech giant Meta, said Monday that users worldwide would be able to connect via unique usernames instead of sharing their phone numbers, an upcoming feature it said was designed to enhance privacy.India, WhatsApp's largest market with more than half a billion users, voiced concerns Wednesday that the change could make it easier for fraudsters to target victims.In a letter to Meta, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said the feature could lead to an increase in online fraud, phishing, digital arrest scams and impersonation attacks, the Indian Express newspaper reported."There is a possibility that bad actors may claim usernames... and message other users while pretending to be someone they are not," the English-language daily quoted a senior government official as saying."For those who may not be technologically aware to make out the difference, it could be a huge challenge."The ministry has asked Meta not to roll out the feature until consultation on the matter is over, the paper added.Last month, Meta appointed Indian fintech titan Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp.Meta said the feature was not yet live in India and that it had already reserved usernames for public figures and verified accounts."To protect against impersonation, we've held the highest-profile names... so they can only ever be claimed by their legitimate owners," it said in a statement."Users still require a phone number to use WhatsApp and we've built multiple layers of defence against scams into usernames."Username feature is already available on another popular messaging platform WeChat, owned by Chinese tech giant Tencent.Online fraud has surged in India in recent years as rapid digitisation has outpaced awareness of basic internet safety among many users.Government figures show Indians lost nearly $3 billion to cyber fraud in 2025, almost 40 times more than in 2021. Related Story
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An 11-year-old boy drove his parents' truck into a Buddhist procession in Thailand Thursday, killing nine monks and seriously injuring around 10 others, police and local authorities said.A group of 35 monks and five lay followers were walking along a roadside in northeastern Mukdahan province during a pilgrimage when the incident occurred.'I saw a boy driving a pickup truck, approaching,' one monk, identified as Phra Sompong, said in a video posted online by local rescue workers.'Then suddenly the truck hit at full speed and crashed us,' he said.'Luckily another monk and I managed to jump out of the way in time,' he added.'The first nine monks in line survived. But others who were hit were thrown into the air.'Police said five monks died at the scene and three more in hospital. The Mukdahan provincial office later announced the death of a ninth monk.Health authorities had earlier said four monks were in a critical condition and 10 others were seriously hurt, while more were being treated for lighter injuries.Buddhist monks are highly venerated in Thailand, entrusted with preserving and passing on the Buddha's teachings.They often hold public processions and are widely seen receiving alms of goodwill from ordinary Thais.CCTV footage from a nearby property shows the monks walking along the road with multiple vehicles driving past. The sound of a loud crash can then be heard before the procession stops.Police said the boy had taken his parents' pickup truck without permission before losing control of the vehicle and crashing into the monks.'The suspect is a child. The vehicle has been taken for forensic examination to determine the cause,' Police Major General Pairoj Thaiphutsa, commander of the Mukdahan Provincial Police, told reporters.'We've asked the child's parents to come in so we can determine who is responsible for the child's care, so we can go on with legal process,' he added.Prayut Ruanthongkam, chief of Mukdahan City Police, told AFP by telephone that the child was a boy aged 11.In Thailand, children under the age of 12 have no criminal liability.Mukdahan Governor Worayan Bunnarat said the case should serve as a wider warning on road safety.Deadly transport accidents are common in Thailand, which has one of the worst road safety records in the world, with speeding, drunk driving and weak law enforcement all contributing factors.'We've been very strict on road safety in recent years. This case should be a lesson not just for our province, but for the public in general when it comes to preventing road accidents,' said the governor.'I think everyone involved, especially parents, needs to help, because no one wants something like this to happen.'
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Rescue workers transport survivor Hernan Alberto Gil, who was trapped for over a week following June 24 earthquakes, from a collapsed mall in La Guaira, Thursday. (Reuters) Hernan Gil survived nearly eight days trapped beneath the ruins of a partially collapsed building in Venezuela before being extricated Thursday in a dramatic operation involving rescuers from seven countries.The 43-year-old security guard has become a symbol of hope for a nation in mourning after one of the worst earthquakes in Latin American history.Now only remote chances exist for finding more survivors from the two earthquakes that killed nearly 2,300, destroyed entire residential buildings and left tens of thousands missing.After a dramatic operation launched on Monday, Gil emerged in Catia La Mar, in the state of La Guaira, the area hardest hit by the June 24 earthquakes."I am completely surprised. It's the first time I've seen so many countries come together like this for a single cause, to save one person," his wife Gusbimar Gonzalez said. "This is truly a miracle."Gonzalez nervously watched the rescue operation throughout."He wasn't hurt, he has no trauma, he managed to hide under a table and a chair," she said shortly before he emerged to the applause and cheers of his rescuers.Gil was taken out on a stretcher and transferred to an ambulance that transported him to Caracas, 40 kilometres (25 miles) away.Gil was brought out through a tunnel about three metres (10 feet) long. In the final phase of the operation, about 30 people worked in the building's parking lot removing debris, while two rescuers dug the tunnel.Rescuers from seven countries — Venezuela, Chile, the US, Portugal, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Mexico — were involved in the painstaking operation.Gil was trapped in the security booth of the seven-story building where he worked as a guard in Catia La Mar."The movement caused the booth to shift; it became trapped between the walls," his wife, with whom he has a 10-year-old son, told AFP.Rescuers learned on Sunday there was a man alive in the rubble of the partially destroyed building.Gil is among the few people who have been miraculously rescued days after the earthquakes.But chances of finding anyone alive beneath deep rubble dwindles rapidly after a critical 72-hour window for rescuing trapped people.'Complicated' The rescue crews had set up bases at the site to work day and night to pull out Gil.They shored up the building's foundations with wood and steel to prevent the partially destroyed structure from collapsing further.Venezuela has been hit by a string of aftershocks since the initial earthquakes.An initial plan to build a 60-by-60-centimetre (24-by-24-inch) tunnel was discarded on Tuesday when the building shifted slightly."This is a rather complicated structure to access," Chilean rescuer Cristian Vera told AFP."With very large pillars...It wasn't easy to reach the exact spot."On Wednesday, rescuers advanced along two routes simultaneously to reach Gil.Their efforts were rewarded Thursday when Gil emerged from the rubble, as rescuers cheered, hugged and crowded around the man they worked so hard to save. Related Story
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Chile's President Jose Antonio Kast and his Uruguayan counterpart Yamandu Orsi hold a press conference, in Montevideo, Uruguay. (Reuters) The presidents of Chile and Uruguay huddled Wednesday to discuss how to fight organised crime, a problem that right-wing populists campaigned on in their sweep to power across Latin America.President Jose Antonio Kast of Chile and Yamandu Orsi of Uruguay conferred for an hour a day after attending a summit of the regional trading bloc called Mercosur, in neighbouring Paraguay.Kast expressed hope that both Uruguay and Paraguay will soon join Chile in signing a crime-fighting agreement to tackle powerful drug trafficking cartels which send huge amounts of cocaine from South America to the United States and Europe."Organised crime can be removed from one country but it needs the same rules in all nations to be able to do away with this scourge," Kast said in a joint statement with Orsi.Backed by President Donald Trump, Kast won a landslide victory in Chile in December on a platform to crack down hard on crime and illegal immigration, which he blamed for bringing cartels and gangs into Chile, one of the most prosperous countries of Latin America.The homicide rate in Chile has doubled in the past decade to 5.4 per 100,000 inhabitants. Uruguay's is almost twice that. Related Story
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Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro attend a demonstration against Jair Bolsonaro's judicial process and to demand the amnesty of all accused of taking part in allegedly conspiring to overthrow the
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Police escort Serhii K from a helicopter before a hearing with the German Federal Public Prosecutor in Karlsruhe, Germany. (Reuters/File picture) German federal prosecutors have charged a former Ukrainian army officer with being the co-perpetrator of a war crime over the 2022 Nord Stream gas pipeline blasts, accusing him of acting on behalf of Ukrainian state entities.Prosecutors said Thursday they had filed charges against Serhii K - identified under German privacy rules only by his first name and initial - before a regional court in Hamburg.They accuse him of acting as a co-perpetrator in a war crime involving an attack on civilian objects, causing an explosion, destroying infrastructure and disrupting public services.Authorities in Kyiv said Thursday that they did not have enough information about the case to respond in detail to German prosecutors' allegations.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that he had yet to receive full details of the indictment, which had been served that day. The list of charges was published on Thursday."The relevant authorities of our countries will get in touch, and when we receive more details, we will probably be able to respond. For now, it is too early to speak," he said.Russia and Western countries have described the September 2022 blasts, which followed Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier that year, as sabotage.The explosions damaged the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, a vital route for Russian gas exports to Europe, as well as the Nord Stream 2 branch, which had yet to enter service.At the time of the alleged attack, Moscow had recently halted gas deliveries via Nord Stream 1, blaming Western sanctions and technical issues, though Europe accused it of weaponising energy supplies.According to the German indictment, Serhii K was an officer in the Ukrainian army in 2022 and, acting on behalf of Ukrainian state entities, helped develop a plan with other military personnel to destroy Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2.The aim, prosecutors said, was to permanently halt gas deliveries via the pipelines and prevent Russia from using revenue from the natural gas trade to finance its war efforts.The defendant, leading a team of professional divers, a skipper and an explosives expert, entered Germany on a forged Ukrainian passport in September 2022 and boarded a yacht rented using forged identification documents, they said.
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A man looks at a residential building damaged following a Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv Thursday. (AFP) Ukraine and Russia Thursday vowed fresh assaults in their four-year war after Moscow launched a massive barrage on Kyiv, killing at least 21 people, tearing open apartment buildings and sending tens of thousands to shelters.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his forces would "definitely" retaliate for the overnight pummelling of the capital as he inspected the site of an apartment block partially destroyed in the attack.In Moscow, the Kremlin vowed to further ramp up the "pressure" on Kyiv, sticking to its no-compromise rhetoric as rescuers in Kyiv scoured the rubble for survivors.The European Union's top diplomat proposed new sanctions on Moscow, while Zelensky asked the US for licences to manufacture Patriot air defence missiles.Russia has routinely launched waves of missiles and drones at Ukrainian cities during its invasion, which has become Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II.AFP journalists in central and eastern Kyiv heard more than a dozen explosions and saw residents — some with children and pets — rushing to shelter in metro stations.In the morning, locals stood on the rubble of destroyed apartment blocks ripped apart by the barrage, as smoke poured over the Kyiv skyline.At one spot, a mother cried as she embraced her son in front of the smouldering debris.Blasts started echoing out late on Wednesday, lasting into the early hours of Thursday as Russian missiles and drones rained down on residential areas in the city centre.Mayor Vitali Klitschko described it as the "enemy's most massive attack on the capital", without elaborating.The state emergency services said at least 21 people were killed and 85 were wounded, including two children.The Ukrainian branch of the Red Cross said that its key warehouse was "destroyed" in the attack with around $2mn worth of humanitarian aid lost.Debris from the pummelling also damaged a building that was "hosting a number of diplomats", EU spokesperson Anitta Hipper told AFP, adding that "EU diplomats were affected" but "safe".Kyiv urged its allies to send more air defence."Air defence supplies for Ukraine are an absolute and critical priority," Zelensky said in a post on Facebook."We also very much count on a decision by the US regarding licences for Patriots."Ukraine is seeking to manufacture munitions for the US-made missile interceptor system, one of its only ways of defending against Russian ballistic missiles, although defence experts say it will take time to set up production domestically.Russia fired 496 drones and 74 missiles, including hard-to-intercept ballistic projectiles, Ukraine's air force said.It said it shot down 48 of the missiles and 476 drones.AFP reporters met several Kyiv residents outside an apartment building largely destroyed in the attack."Half the building has been destroyed. The roof is gone," said 32-year-old factory worker Sabina Mambetova, standing outside the rubble of her home in the eastern Darnytskyi district."I've been left without an apartment, alone with my child. I don't know what to do now."An AFP journalist at the site saw rescuers extracting the body of another victim of the attack, which ripped a multi-storey building open.Some 52,000 people, including 4,500 children packed into underground stations to shelter from the barrage — the highest number in recent years, according to the Kyiv metro.Others hunkered down in basements or corridors through the night as blasts shook buildings across the city."It's hard. My child is used to sleeping in complete silence and darkness," 32-year-old doctor Kateryna Kucheryava told AFP from the metro as the attack was unfolding."I picked her up and carried her down. She woke up and now she's not sleeping anymore."Along station platforms, locals set up tents and lay on air mattresses and camping chairs, while mothers tried to sleep clutching babies to their chests.The EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said she would propose new sanctions on Moscow over the attack.But the Kremlin showed no signs it would back down, more than four years into an invasion that has killed hundreds of thousands.The attack came hours after Zelensky cut short a visit to Dublin on Wednesday, citing intelligence reports of an impending Russian strike.Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin "has been preparing this massive strike against Ukraine for some time now".Ukraine has stepped up long-range drone attacks inside Russia in recent weeks, targeting energy infrastructure and military targets.Russian officials have reported repeated strikes in border regions, while Moscow has said its air defences have intercepted hundreds of drones from Ukraine in recent days.US efforts to broker an end to the conflict have so far failed. Related Story
