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Venezuela's government says at least 1,450 people have been killed in last week's double earthquakes.
Tens of thousands of others are missing.
Large buildings have collapsed and there's a lot of rubble.
Rescue teams are trying to find people who are still trapped.
NPR's Ada Peralta is in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
What I saw was just a couple of dozen family members climbing through the rubble.
They were just picking random places to dig.
And then at times the smell of death would get stronger and they would dig faster.
And I mean, look, there are helicopters in the air and there's backhoes and the Venezuelan government
has deployed the military and the police and a bunch of foreign countries have sent rescue crews here.
But there's just not enough of them.
NPR's Ada Peralta in Caracas.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his forces will fight on in Ukraine.
Putin is reacting to a Ukrainian offer for both sides to end long-range strikes.
NPR's Charles Maines reports from Moscow.
In an interview on state television, Putin painted the Ukrainian proposal to limit attacks as one of desperation,
saying Kiev needed to reinforce depleted troops along the front.
Russia's military, Putin said, was finally on the verge of taking full control of four regions
of Ukraine the Kremlin initially claimed to annex back in 2022. To a degree,