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People gather to receive supplies from volunteers, days after twin earthquakes struck La Guaira, Venezuela. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
Khaterine Roa cries as members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department search for survivors at a building that collapsed during the earthquakes that struck La Guaira. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
Yohancy Gil, 24 and her husband Sergio Guanipa, 30, stand on rubble as they wait for news from rescue teams looking for their children under the rubble at the site of a collapsed building in La Guaira. [Ricardo Arduengo/Reuters]
Residents displaced following the June 24 twin earthquakes arrange belongings at an improvised camp in a baseball field in Catia La Mar. [Federico Parra/AFP]
Ogleisys Cisneros holds her son, Santiago Medina, while waiting in line for government humanitarian aid. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
Rescue workers recover a body from the rubble of a building damaged by earthquakes. [Ronald Pena R/EPA]
A man hugs his dog after it was rescued from the rubble of a building damaged by earthquakes in La Guaira. [Ronald Pena R/EPA]
Resident Kerli Faria takes a break amid the rubble while searching for her nephews at a building that collapsed during the earthquakes. [Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo]
Volunteers distribute food and essential items in Caraballeda, La Guaira state. [Miguel Medina/Pool/AFP]
A rescue worker walks past buildings damaged by earthquakes in La Guaira. [Ronald Pena R./EPA]
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A Mexico fan celebrates after they won the match [Steven Watt/Reuters]
Mexico's Orbelin Pineda celebrates with teammates after the match as Mexico qualify for the round of 16 stage of the World Cup. [Eloisa Sanchez/Reuters]
Celebrations erupted across Mexico as the national team ended a 40-year World Cup knockout drought. [Luis Cortes/Reuters]
Mexican players celebrate winning the Round of 32 match against Ecuador in Mexico City. [Jose Mendez/EPA]
The streets of Mexico's cities echoed with chants, flags and endless cheers after the final whistle. [Luis Cortes/Reuters]
Mexico City lights up in celebration after the national team's historic victory. [Armando Vega/Reuters]
From the Azteca to city squares, Mexican fans celebrated a dream finally fulfilled. [Luis Cortes/Reuters]
Fans covered in snow from a machine celebrate their first goal scored by Julian Quinones, in Mexico City. [Luis Cortes/Reuters]
The final whistle sparked unforgettable scenes of celebration across Mexico. [Armando Vega/Reuters]
Mexico fans celebrate at a watch party in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, after the match. [Lisi Niesner/Reuters]
An aerial photograph shows Mexican football fans celebrating their victory over Ecuador at the Angel of Independence in Mexico City. [Tomas Perez/EPA]
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Emergency crews continue to work at the site of collapsed buildings in Venezuela despite a 72-hour window seen as critical for surviving in the rubble after earthquakes. [Gaby Oraa/Reuters]
A rescue worker carries a girl pulled from the rubble four days after two earthquakes struck the coastal state of La Guaira in less than one minute on June 24, 2026. [Pedro Mattey/AP Photo]
Members of the French 7th Civil Security Training and Intervention Regiment work at a destroyed building in Catia La Mar, La Guaira state. [Miguel Medina/Pool/AFP]
Relatives of a victim of the twin earthquakes mourn during a burial at the Southern General Cemetery in Caracas. [Rosali Hernandez/AFP]
International and local rescue crews have been racing against time and focusing on the northern port city of La Guaira, the hardest-hit area of the country. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
Rescue workers and volunteers rest on the rubble of collapsed buildings in Caraballeda in La Guaira state as operations continue 24 hours a day. [Miguel Medina/Pool/Reuters]
Thousands of rescue workers, relatives and volunteers dig day and night through debris and around slabs of concrete to find survivors of the earthquakes. [Mauricio Valenzuela/AFP]
Children who lost their homes in the earthquakes rest on a pile of donated clothes on a street in La Guaira. [Gaby Oraa/Reuters]
Devastating back-to-back magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck near Venezuela's Caribbean coast last week, collapsing buildings, damaging the country's main airport and leaving more than 1,700 people dead and tens of thousands missing. [Miguel Medina/Pool/AFP]
Collapsed buildings and debris are seen along the coast in Caraballeda in La Guaira state. [Yorman Maldonado/AFP]
Officials believe tens of thousands of people are still missing as rescue efforts involving about 30,000 Venezuelan emergency workers and 2,700 foreign experts carry on. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
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Rescue workers pull 11-year-old Moises Calzadilla from the rubble on June 27, 2026, two days after the earthquakes struck. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]
Powerful back-to-back earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 25 2026, causing widespread damage, a rising death toll and thousands of injuries. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
A woman cries next to damaged buildings two days after an earthquake struck in La Guaira. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
A firefighter yells through a tube to people under the rubble of a collapsed building in La Guaira, Venezuela, as emergency workers try to reach them. [Gaby Oraa/Reuters]
Volunteers lift a metal gate as they search through debris on the rubble of collapsed buildings in Catia La Mar in La Guaira state. [Federico Parra/AFP]
Identification cards and photographs of missing people are left on the window of a dirt-covered car by relatives searching for information in Catia La Mar, two days after twin earthquakes struck the country. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]
Ezequiel Frontado looks at covered bodies while searching for missing relatives. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]
Members of the French Civil Security Training and Intervention Regiment help residents in the search for victims in a country that was already suffering through an economic and healthcare crisis before the quakes. [Miguel Medina/Pool/Reuters]
Quake survivors line up for food in La Guaira as foreign aid has started to arrive in Venezuela. [Matias Delacroix/AP Photo]
Houses damaged and burned by fires in the earthquakes stand in Catia La Mar. [Fernando Vergara/AP Photo]
Family members and neighbours of Jhonquer Cerpas, 13, comfort one another as emergency workers try to rescue him in La Guaira. [Maxwell Briceno/Reuters]
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Rescue workers in Caracas take an injured man to medical care on June 24, 2026, after magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes hit Venezuela. [Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo]
Venezuelans raced out onto the streets during the earthquakes as buildings collapsed. Many were too afraid to return to structures that were still standing as rescue efforts began. [Maxwell Briceno/Reuters]
An injured man is cared for in a vehicle in La Guaira, Venezuela's main port, after the earthquakes. [Maxwell Briceno/Reuters]
The epicentres of the quakes were in Yaracuy state, west of Caracas, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). [Maxwell Briceno/Reuters]
Rescue workers comb through the rubble of collapsed apartment blocks to try to find survivors in Caracas, which was hit hard by the quakes. [Federico Parra/AFP]
The first quake had a magnitude of 7.2 and struck at a depth of 22km (14 miles), the USGS says. It was followed less than a minute later by a magnitude 7.5 quake at a depth of about 10km (6 miles). [Gaby Oraa/Reuters]
People wait to receive medical treatment at a field hospital in La Guaira. [Maxwell Briceno/Reuters]
A woman comforts a child in a street in Caracas. Nearly two dozen aftershocks followed the twin temblors, and experts warned that more strong aftershocks could follow in the coming days. [Federico Parra/AFP]
Acting President Delcy Rodriguez declared a state of emergency as experts warned the death toll could be in the thousands. [Manaure Quintero/AFP]
Rodriguez said the most heavily affected area is La Guaira, located north of Caracas on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast. She described La Guaira as a “disaster zone” where rescuers are “working to save lives”. [Maxwell Briceno/Reuters]
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Rescuers carry a person on a stretcher out of a collapsed building following an earthquake in Caracas. [Juan Barreto/AFP]
Acting President Delcy Rodriguez has declared a state of emergency, warning that the toll will rise as rescuers search collapsed buildings and reach hard-hit coastal communities. [Juan Barreto/AFP]
Survivors gather in the streets of Caracas after twin earthquakes of magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 strike Venezuela, killing at least 164 people and injuring more than 971. [Pedro Mattey/AP Photo]
The state of La Guaira has become a disaster zone, acting President Delcy Rodriguez said. [Federico Parra/AFP]
Families spend the night outside damaged homes, some without power or phone signals, huddling with neighbours and pets as aftershocks continue to rattle the earthquake-prone but rarely hit country. [Adrian Naranjo/AP Photo]
A firefighter rescues a dog from a building that collapsed after an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela. [Pedro Mattey/AP Photo]
Survivors describe the terror of the twin jolts, saying the floor “moved like waves” and that the second, stronger quake felt like “a freight train” roaring under their feet. [Pedro Mattey/AP Photo]
As aftershocks continue and the full extent of the disaster emerges, grieving families, strained emergency services and a fragile state confront one of Venezuela’s worst natural catastrophes in decades. [Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo]
Officials urge calm but ask people to remain outside vulnerable structures, warning that aftershocks could trigger new collapses in already weakened buildings across multiple Venezuelan states. [Juan Barreto/AFP]
Neighbours help a man evacuate from his damaged home after an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela. [Pedro Mattey/AP Photo]
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivering a speech during a commissioning ceremony of the new-type multi-mission destroyer Choe Hyon at Nampo port in North Korea. [KCNA via AFP]
The newly commissioned Choe Hyon, a 5,000-tonne warship, is billed by Pyongyang as carrying some of the country's "most powerful weapons", including ship-launched cruise missiles that could be fitted with tactical nuclear warheads, in Nampho, North Korea, June 23, 2026 [Handout/KCNA via AFP].
Kim Jong Un told a commissioning ceremony in Nampho that warships such as the Choe Hyon prove the nuclear armament of North Korea's navy is progressing as planned, according to state media, June 23, 2026 [Handout/KCNA via AFP].
Kim Jong Un attends the commissioning ceremony of the Choe Hyon, North Korea's first 5,000-tonne destroyer, which state media said will be tasked with defending the country's western coast, at Nampho port, June 23, 2026 [Handout/KCNA via AFP].
Kim Jong Un salutes the destroyer Choe Hyon, which he has cast as a major step towards extending North Korea's operational reach and pre-emptive strike capabilities, at Nampho port, June 23, 2026. KCNA says the warship is armed with anti-aircraft and anti-ship weapons, as well as nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles [Handout/KCNA via AFP].
Kim Jong Un stands aboard the destroyer Choe Hyon at Nampho port, June 23, 2026. South Korean officials and experts say the warship was likely built with Russian help amid deepening military ties, but some analysts question whether it is ready for active service [Handout/KCNA via AFP].
North Korea has put the Choe Hyon through a series of recent tests, including launches of what it describes as nuclear-capable cruise missiles from the destroyer. [KCNA via AFP]
Kim Jong Un says North Korea’s navy is evolving from a coastal defence force into a full-fledged service equipped with strategic nuclear capabilities, and that its nuclear armament programme is proceeding as planned. [KCNA via AFP]
Kim Jong Un is shifting his focus from ballistic missiles to naval power, pushing the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine and setting five-year goals that include intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of being launched from underwater. [KCNA via AFP]
The destroyer Choe Hyon departs following its commissioning ceremony at Nampho port, June 23, 2026. After a March missile test aboard the vessel, Kim Jong Un said arming his navy with nuclear weapons would "constitute a radical change in defending our maritime sovereignty, something that we have not achieved for half a century". State media did not explain his remarks, but some analysts say North Korea may be preparing to declare a new maritime boundary that could cut into waters controlled by South Korea [Handout/KCNA via AFP].
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A Palestinian man holds the body of his child next to others killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, October 22, 2023. [Fatima Shbair/AP Photo]
Palestinian children wounded in Israeli attacks are brought to al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. [Ali Mahmoud/AP Photo]
Palestinian children wounded in Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip are treated at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, November 21, 2023. [Marwan Saleh/AP Photo]
Palestinian carry the bodies of their relatives including children who were killed in an Israeli air raid in Deir el-Balah, Gaza, May 21, 2025. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Sara al-Nouri mourns over the body of her 13-year-old sister, Sama, who was among 10 people, including two women and five children, killed in an Israeli attack while they were waiting to receive nutritional supplements at a Project Hope-run medical clinic in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip, July 10, 2025. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Displaced Palestinian children search for firewood and plastic in a landfill beside the makeshift tent camp where they are taking shelter, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, September 30, 2025. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Palestinian children, sick and wounded, arrive at Jordan's King Hussein Bridge border crossing en route to Amman for medical treatment, April 27, 2026. [Raad Adayleh/AP Photo]
Palestinian children struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, May 3, 2025. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Children walk through the rubble of the apartment of the Palestinian Safadi family in Gaza City, June 20, 2026, following an overnight Israeli air strike. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Displaced Palestinian children haul water containers at the Yarmouk football stadium that was damaged during Israel's war on Gaza, in Gaza City, June 20, 2026. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
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Catholic nuns from the orphanage where Vanisa Anifa, a 6-month-old orphaned girl who died of Ebola, was staying, attend her funeral in Bunia, Congo [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Red Cross workers prepare to bury Vanisa Anifa, a 6-month-old orphaned girl who died of Ebola, at the Bigo Cemetery, in Bunia, DR Congo. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Health workers tend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara Treatment Center in Ituri, DR Congo. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Ebola survivors are discharged from the Rwampara treatment Center in Ituri. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Kahindo Mireille Pierrette, an Ebola survivor, centre, poses with her 16-month old baby and health workers after they were declared to have survived Ebola and were discharged from the Rwampara treatment Center in Ituri, DR Congo. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Health workers attend to an Ebola patient at the Rwampara treatment Center in Ituri, DR Congo. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Relatives of Vanisa Anifa, a 6-month-old orphaned girl who died of Ebola, attend her burial, in Bunia, DR Congo, Friday, June 19, 2026. [Moses Sawasawa/AP]
Relatives of Angele Muyumba Nsimire, a university student who died of Ebola, react at the Citadelle Clinic as health workers prepare her body for burial in Bunia, DR Congo. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Two girls sit at the isolation centre in Bunia, DR Congo. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
Dr Marie Roseline Darnycka Belizaire, left, regional emergency director for Africa at the World Health Organization (WHO), talks with one of her colleagues in an office in Bunia, DR Congo. [Moses Sawasawa/AP Photo]
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Protesters march through central Tirana, as one of Albania’s largest recent rallies denounces a Trump-linked luxury resort planned on the protected Vjosa-Narta coast [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Marchers brandish placards accusing the government of corruption, saying coastal development deals are being struck behind closed doors. [Adnan Beci/AFP]
Protesters takes part in a rally in Tirana. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Protesters pledge to stay in the streets until Prime Minister Edi Rama quits, accusing his government of hiding details of major coastal projects. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
The project spans a wildlife reserve and an uninhabited island, and protesters have voiced concerns about the impact on biodiversity. Heavy machinery entered the area at the end of last month, prompting further outrage. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Images of flamingos in flight are held aloft at the rally, symbolising fears for migratory birds that breed near the planned resort and Sazan Island projects. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Protesters from abroad return home to join the movement, with members of the Albanian diaspora swelling the ranks of the Tirana marches.
[Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Chants echo through Tirana’s main boulevard, as demonstrators insist they will not leave the streets until Prime Minister Edi Rama steps down.
[Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
Night after night, crowds gather in the capital, keeping up pressure on the government to halt a luxury hotel project in a protected coastal reserve.
[Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
“Albania is not for sale” is projected onto the prime minister’s office as crowds demand Edi Rama’s resignation over the Trump-linked resort plan. [Hameraldi Agolli/AP Photo]
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