The ICC says its investigation into alleged crimes against humanity will continue despite the withdrawal.
Venezuela is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, accusing it of bias against the Global South.
Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Sunday she will not take part in US-backed talks with the de facto government of Delcy Rodriguez that are scheduled for August. In a statement co-signed by Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who ran for president in Venezuela’s 2024 elections, Machado said the opposition would “not participate” in the “design, development and operation” of the talks. In mid-July, Rodriguez’s interim government and a group of former...
The cost of reconstruction is expected to run into the tens of billions, even as the country faces numerous obstacles.
One month after Venezuela’s earthquakes, families are still searching collapsed buildings for missing loved ones.
Announcement comes as Venezuela has hewed close to Trump administration, who has pledged to'disable' international court.
Officials say the death toll has surpassed 5,300, though estimates of the number still missing could be as high as 50,000.
Report says 47 percent of physical damage from pair of earthquakes impacted residential buildings.
Former President Maduro pleads not guilty to drug charges; lawyer plans to challenge legality of US military operation.
Venezuela’s ousted president Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are due back in a US court on Wednesday for a hearing over the upcoming schedule in their drug trafficking case, including a possible June 2027 trial start date. The hearing before US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, scheduled to start at noon local time in Manhattan federal court, could shed light on the next steps in one of the most high-profile and consequential criminal cases in recent US history. US Special Forces...
Families in Venezuela search through the rubble of their homes, weeks after the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes hit.
Weeks after earthquakes, relatives are still searching for bodies of loved ones who disappeared beneath the rubble.
Latin America analyst Brian Winter argues that Trump sees Venezuela as a foreign policy success… and Cuba may be next.
The opposition says the aim of the talks is to strengthen the democratic institutions and the electoral system.
Volunteers in La Guaira have transformed a fast-food restaurant into an emergency clinic.
The United Nations launched an appeal for roughly $300 million to assist survivors of Venezuela's earthquakes
A Venezuelan fashion designer has turned his workshop from making colourful dresses to producing body bags.
International aid teams have played a key part in Venezuela’s ‘miracle rescues’, days after twin earthquakes struck.
BBC international correspondent Yogita Limayee meets 12-year-old Fabiana, who was trapped in Venezuela's devastating earthquakes.
Interim President Delcy Rodriguez once again defends her government's handling of the deadly earthquakes on June 24.
After the June 24 earthquakes, ex-firefighter Jesus Garcia found himself working to save his dad and younger brothers.
Venezuela’s interim president said on Sunday the country would not descend into social unrest after the twin earthquakes which killed more than 3,000 people and left thousands more missing. One of Latin America’s worst earthquake disasters, the June 24 shocks collapsed scores of buildings, leaving thousands homeless, especially in the coastal La Guaira area north of the capital Caracas. “There will be no social unrest here, what we have here is deep social solidarity,” Delcy Rodriguez said...
Cristiano Ronaldo has sent a message to a young Venezuelan earthquake survivor, recovering in hospital.
Quakes reduce Venezuela tourist town to rubble, leaving economy in tatters.
Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez dismissed criticism of the government's response.
Venezuela's acting president Delcy Rodriguez dismissed criticism of the government's quake response.
Many survivors are sheltering in tents set up in public parks, after twin earthquakes destroyed rows of buildings.
The fallout from Venezuela’s powerful twin quakes has evolved into a major test for acting President Delcy Rodriguez, sending her scrambling to prevent the humanitarian disaster from becoming a political one as her mandate as interim leader expires on Friday. A day after Rodriguez angrily defended the competence of her government’s relief effort at her first news conference since the June 24 disaster, her main rival, exiled Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado, issued her...
Emergency relief is becoming the focus in Venezuela’s La Guaira state as aid stations distribute food.
Hundreds of rescuers in Venezuela cheered and embraced on Thursday after pulling a 43-year-old man alive from the ruins of a collapsed building eight days after deadly twin earthquakes. With the official death toll nearing 2,300 and huge numbers of people still missing, the rescue of security guard Hernan Gil after so long under the rubble was greeted as a miracle. Gil was brought out on a stretcher after a painstaking operation to extract him from the collapsed seven-storey building where he...
Emergency workers managed to free Hernán Gil more than 100 hours after they had first located him under 140 tonnes of rubble.
Hernán Gil, a security guard, was in a concrete hut in a multi-storey car park, when the building collapsed.
Venezuelan rescuers fight to save lives as survivors face hunger and chaos after devastating twin earthquakes.
Aid workers fear disease outbreaks in temporary shelters amid overcrowding, lack of access to clean water, sanitation.
As frustration with the government disaster response grows, everyday citizens are organising to distribute aid.
One week after Venezuela's twin earthquakes, more than 1,900 are confirmed dead while tens of thousands are missing.
Venezuelan sky turns deep red as sun sets over Caracas
"I'm still begging for people to help me get him out."
The US deported at least 146 people to Venezuela, just hours before two deadly earthquakes struck last Wednesday.
Video footage shows rescuers cheering as the child is pulled from rubble in La Guaira state.
International and local emergency teams are continuing to recover the bodies of victims under the rubble
Almost a week after two devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, survivors were still being found alive by rescuers that have come from abroad to help. Salvadorean rescuers reached a 44-year-old man trapped under the rubble of a shopping centre in the coastal city of Maiquetía in the early hours of Tuesday, El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele wrote on the platform X. The man had been supplied with water through a tube while rescuers found a way to reach him safely. Workers from the Ecuadorian...
When late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez built this coastal housing development bearing his name as part of his socialist revolution, residents found a fresh start after deadly floods had decimated the area more than a decade earlier. But after two back-to-back earthquakes flattened parts of the 1,100-unit complex last Wednesday, engineers have urged the Venezuelan government to swiftly audit similar public housing that is still standing. “I lost my whole apartment,” said Yelsa Rojas, who since...
Rescuers race to find survivors in Venezuela's quake-hit areas as families cling to hope amid widespread devastation.
The UN says it is procuring 10,000 body bags for Venezuela, warning the death toll will rise.
Search for deportees from US continues in the rubble of the hotel they were taken to in Venezuela's La Guaira city.
More than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble, according to survivors. A deportation flight from Miami arrived in Caracas hours before Wednesday’s earthquakes. On board were 146 Venezuelans, including 19 women and seven children, according to ICE Flight Monitor, an initiative of Human Rights First, which tracks deportation flights. Lisbeth Portillo,...
Lutao Cen was swimming off Margarita Island, where he has lived for four decades, when twin earthquakes measuring above magnitude 7 struck northern Venezuela within two minutes. Only after returning to shore did he learn what had happened. Messages flooded his WeChat feed. Friends in Caracas, Valencia and Maracay described buildings collapsing and streets filled with dust. Then came the news he had feared most. A close friend in La Guaira, chairman of the local Chinese association, had been...
Hundreds of Venezuelans are sheltering at a golf course in La Guaira after last week's deadly earthquakes.
With tens of thousands of people still believed missing, teams listen for signs of life beneath the rubble.
In devastated areas people are using crowbars, pickaxes and their bare hands to try to reach survivors.
The BBC's Will Grant reports on the efforts to dig out survivors in the port city of Catia la Mer.
Rescuers armed with a range of techniques continue to search through the rubble in Venezuela.
Tens of thousands remain missing after the devastating twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela last week
Pope Leo expressed solidarity with Venezuelans after two deadly earthquakes claimed the lives of at least 1,400.