Rescuers worked through the night to save hundreds of Venezuelans trapped in rubble and find thousands ​more missing after two of the biggest earthquakes in Latin America’s modern history smashed areas in and around the capital Caracas.

Health authorities across Europe were on high alert as a killer heatwave ​progressed across the continent, prompting alcohol bans in France and cracking road surfaces open in Germany.

Japan grappled with transport disruptions while bracing for more torrential rain and ‌risks from two approaching tropical storms that spurred authorities to issue high-level landslide warnings and order the evacuation of 1 million people.

President Donald Trump’s administration has pushed hard to present a united front on the Iran war, but statements by his vice president and secretary of state have at times diverged over the past week, especially on the subject of Israel.

Saudi Aramco resumed crude loadings at its Ras Tanura terminal in the Gulf after a near four-month halt, shipping data showed.

Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela.

Australia faces multi-faceted threats from autocratic regimes, hackers and antisemitic extremists that present a systemic challenge to national security and are degrading the security environment, the country’s spy chief said.

The biggest casualty of the U.S.-Iran deal may not be Israel’s Iran strategy, but the political brand Benjamin Netanyahu spent decades building as the Israeli leader who could uniquely bend Washington to his will on Iran, analysts, former U.S. officials and diplomats ​say.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday it may never be known who was at fault for a ​deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran on February ‌28, the first day of the Iran war, that killed scores of children.

Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a Chinese businessman featured in a Reuters investigation into transnational ​crypto-investment fraud, alleging he was part of a network that laundered money from scams and online gambling through illegal cryptocurrency mining.

Western Europe was in the grip of a heatwave on Wednesday that claimed dozens of lives, disrupted power supplies, shut schools and cultural landmarks, as forecasters warned the extreme temperatures could persist until the end of the week.

A baby girl’s death at a tourist attraction at the hands of her “manipulative and dangerous” father could have been prevented, a coroner says.