The death toll from Wednesday’s twin earthquakes rose above 1,400 as foreign rescue teams poured into coastal La Guaira, the hardest-hit state.
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Seawater has advanced as far as 11 miles inland and raising fears for the delta’s agriculture and protected wetlands.
A strong earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush region on Saturday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, sending out tremors that could be felt from the capital Kabul across the border into neighbouring Pakistan.
Two powerful earthquakes that struck the northern coast of Venezuela and capital Caracas on Wednesday claimed at least 188 lives, a toll that could increase as rescue teams comb the debris of collapsed buildings.
The city mayor told busy Parisians to slow down as large parts of Western Europe remained in the grip of a deadly heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives, disrupted power supplies, and shut schools and cultural landmarks.
The death toll will most likely run into the thousands based on predictive modeling, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Extreme heat in France has killed hundreds of thousands of poultry, overwhelming carcass collection services and prompting authorities to consider on-farm burial in the two biggest poultry-producing regions, agricultural organisations said.
Healthcare centres and critical sites were being prioritised in the scramble to restore power, with generators provided to tide over retirement homes after outages blamed on a transformer incident.
“Too hot! Too hot. Incredible. Incredible. Terrible. Very hot.”
Soaring temperatures failed to dampen the spirits of World Cup supporters who used portable fans, umbrellas and lots of cold liquids to beat the blazing Texas heat on Saturday.