La Guaira, Venezuela, June 28, 2026 (AFP) - A painful wait by a pile of rubble in quake-hit Venezuela

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2026-06-28

Rescue crews working at one of the many buildings destroyed in Venezuela's killer earthquakes called for silence as they heard some kind of sound from a survivor buried in the rubble. They called out the missing man's name -- "Jonathan!" -- and his wife, Barbara Palacios, jumped with joy and excitement. She looked up to the sky and screamed "thank you, Father!" But hearing her husband and getting him out from under tons of concrete and debris we......

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