Venezuela earthquakes live blog: Buildings collapse as quakes rock capital Caracas, ‘high casualties’ likely

A series of strong earthquakes have struck west of Venezuela’s capital Caracas, bringing down buildings and causing scientists to estimate “high casualties and extensive damage”. A magnitude-7.2 quake struck about 160 kilometres west of Caracas on Wednesday afternoon, according to Reuters, while a magnitude-7.5 tremor hit less than a minute later. Follow our live blog…

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Back-to-back powerful earthquakes slam Venezuela, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas

Back-to-back powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening, local time, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas. The first earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1 and its epicentre was west of the community of Morón, located along the country’s Caribbean coast, about 168 kilometres west of Caracas.  The quake had a depth of 13 kilometres….

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Olympian arrested at Washington’s reflecting pool is Trump ‘scapegoat’, lawyer says

A lawyer for the Olympian arrested at Washington’s reflecting pool says his client is a scapegoat who is being targeted to distract Americans from the Trump administration’s failures. David ‘Davey’ Hearn, who represented the US in canoeing at three Olympic Games, was arrested near the recently repainted pool on Friday, local time.  Afterwards, he told…

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Parents angry as state-run distance education slashes learning materials

Every school day, seven-year-old Vivien Fitzgerald heads to school on a remote cattle station. In between mustering, branding, fencing, water-point checking, weed management and housework, her mother or father joins her as her very own “home tutor”. But parents are now doing it without the information distance education families have used for decades to support…

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