Nearly 17,000 injured and thousands more are listed as missing amid calls by UN and president Delcy Rodríguez for financial help The death toll in Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes has topped 4,000, the government said on Friday. At least 4,118 people were killed and 16,740 injured in the back-to-back quakes on 24 June that flattened entire districts in the coastal state of La Guaira, Venezuelan parliament chief Jorge Rodriguez wrote on Telegram. Thousands more are listed as missing. ...

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The Venezuelan Parliament has unanimously approved four resolution projects in a parliamentary committee. The report also noted that six Portuguese-Venezuelans remain detained in the country.

The Venezuelan parliament has passed a groundbreaking amnesty law, leading to the release of nearly two hundred political prisoners and signaling an end to decades of state repression under Maduro and Chávez.