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BBC News with Chris Barrow.
More than 1,400 people are now confirmed dead in Venezuela after two earthquakes on Wednesday. Thousands more are still missing while rescuers struggle to reach trapped people. There are growing signs of public frustration with the Venezuelan government's response. ??? from Doctors Without Borders described the situation in the worst affected area La Guaira. "Everything is collapsed. Search and rescue is going on. We were supporting hospitals there with emergency trauma kits. We see a lot of people on the street. Just to give you an idea, normally you take 45 minutes to go to La Guaira. Yesterday in our trip, we took four and a half hours to go there. Everybody is trying to help. There are charged with water, with food. There you see small trucks with mattresses going there. So the mobilization of the Venezuelan people is impressive. I saw a lot of emergencies in my career but what I saw there was quite heavy and it's difficult to describe because how can you describe such a horror?" The U.S. military says it's carried out further strikes against Iran in response to what it called "continued aggression against commercial shipping" in the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. said commercial vessels were continuing to transit the waterway. Carl Nasman has more details. The U.S. military says its forces, quote, "conducted additional strikes against multiple targets in Iran" at the "Commander in Chieffs direction." "Iran was given a chance to honor the ceasefire agreement," it says, "but elected not to when its forces launched a one-way attack drone that hit the MT Kiku," that's referring to a ship this morning at 4:30 in the morning Eastern time. The Panama-flagged tanker was transiting near the Strait of Hormuz with more than 2 million barrels of crude oil. Now on Friday, the U.S. said it had struck missile and drone storage facilities and coastal radar positions in response to a drone attack on a cargo ship that took place on Thursday. Police in the Pakistani city of Karachi say they've quashed a militant attack on the provincial headquarters of a paramilitary unit. Insurgents rammed the main gate with an explosives-laden vehicle. Local media say three soldiers and three insurgents were killed. Anbarasan Ethirajan reports. An eyewitness said the explosion was so loud "the ground felt like it does when there was an earthquake." Soon after the gunfire started Pakistani authorities rushed in reinforcements. The main target was the provincial headquarters of the Pakistani Rangers unit. The shootout lasted for around 15 minutes. A journalist at the scene said firing had ended and the situation appeared calm. There is no official confirmation on casualty figures. A little-known Islamist militant group, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, said it carried out the attack. This is the world news from the BBC. Five people were injured when a car was driven into shoppers on a busy street in London. Three were taken to hospital after the incident in Ealing in the west of the British capital. Footage from the scene showed bystanders trying to stop the car as it sped away. Sean Dilley reports. Scotland Yard says the detained man is a 35-year-old British man who was born in Somalia. It's understood none of the injuries are life-threatening. London's Metropolitan Police said the driver did not stop at the scene but he was quickly arrested nearby. The force says counterterrorism officers were initially involved in the investigation but the incident is not believed to be terror related. Detectives are keeping an open mind about their suspect's possible motive. Nigeria says that seven suspected commanders of Islamist extremist groups were arrested as they returned from the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The interior minister said the men detained nine days ago in the north of the country included senior members of Boko Haram and the West African branch of the Islamic State group. Officials say the arrests were enabled by reforms which allow suspects to be tracked more easily. Thousands of people have been killed by the two rival groups over the years. The cabinet chief of the Argentine President Javier Milei has resigned following accusations of illicit enrichment. Manuel Adorni denies criminal wrongdoing but has admitted failing to declare about half a million dollars in income. Federal investigators in Argentina are looking into how he paid for luxury family holidays. He claimed the funds came from an unexpected inheritance and a cryptocurrency investment. At the World Cup, England have finished top of Group L after beating Panama 2-0. Harry Kane scored the second goal to become England's all-time record goalscorer in the tournament. And Croatia defeated Ghana 2-1 to come second in the group. Ghana had already qualified for the knockout stage. And that's the latest world news from the BBC. |