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Taiwan focuses its efforts on finding 16 missing after the strong earthquake

Taiwan’s rescue teams are working this Friday in the search for sixteen people missing after the strong earthquake that shook the east coast of the island on Wednesday, causing 12 deaths and 1,106 injuries.
In a press appearance, the Taiwanese Minister of the Interior, Lin Yu-chang, said that rescue teams found two lifeless bodies this morning on a trail in Taroko National Park, one of the main tourist spots in Taiwan.
This morning they also rescued nine people stranded in a cave in the same park, who have already been directed to a safe place.
However, according to the state news agency CNA, the authorities do not know the current location of three foreigners, two Australian citizens and one Canadian.
Likewise, four people are still missing near the town of Fengbin: a couple with whom they lost contact at a campsite in Xiulin and two other people in the mining area of Heren and in the Luoshao area.
Almost three days after the earthquake, 671 people remain trapped: 435 in a hotel in Taroko National Park, 122 in the Tianxiang recreational area, 84 in an elementary school, 18 in a camp and another 12 in the Xiangde Buddhist temple.
The Taiwanese Minister of the Interior assured that, due to adverse weather conditions and the constant aftershocks – more than 500 since Wednesday – people trapped in Tianxiang will not be able to be evacuated until Sunday.
So far, the earthquake has caused a total of 2,612 incidents of varying magnitudes on the island, most of them in the cities of Taipei (1,145) and New Taipei (509) and in Hualien County (439).
The earthquake, of magnitude 7.2 according to the Central Meteorological Agency (CWA) of Taiwan and 7.4 according to the United States Geological Survey, was recorded at 7:58 on Wednesday (23:58 GMT on Tuesday) at sea, 25 kilometers southeast of Hualien.
This earthquake is the most intense that Taiwan has suffered since September 21, 1999, when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake killed more than 2,400 people.
Taiwan is settled at the confluence of the Philippine and Eurasian plates, so earthquakes are frequent on the island.
International
Trump urges Putin to reach peace deal

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his desire for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “reach a deal” to end the war in Ukraine, while also reaffirming his willingness to impose sanctions on Russia.
“I want to see him reach an agreement to prevent Russian, Ukrainian, and other people from dying,” Trump stated during a press conference in the Oval Office at the White House.
“I think he will. I don’t want to have to impose secondary tariffs on Russian oil,” the Republican leader added, recalling that he had already taken similar measures against Venezuela by sanctioning buyers of the South American country’s crude oil.
Trump also reiterated his frustration over Ukraine’s resistance to an agreement that would allow the United States to exploit natural resources in the country—a condition he set in negotiations to end the war.
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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.
Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.
However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.
International
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“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.
The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.
His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”
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