Sources: Reuters
Fifteen people are killed after two Gold pits are flooded in Cibitoke Province, Burundi. 2023-04-2
The death toll from the October 8 landslide in Las Tejerías, Venezuela, increases to 54. 2022-10-18
A landslide caused by days of torrential rain kills at least 22 people in Santos Michelena, Venezuela. 2022-10-9
Twenty people are killed and 17 others are reported missing in landslides in western Venezuela, amid torrential rains. Most of the deaths occurred in Tovar, Mérida, after the local Mocotíes river overflowed its banks. 2021-08-25
Venezuela launches a vaccination program against COVID-19 using Sputnik V vaccine starting with frontline health workers. 2021-02-18
Venezuelan security forces search for 30 gold miners reportedly killed last week in the state of Bolívar in the country's southeast. Survivor reports state the miners were shot last Friday in a fight for control of a gold deposit by criminals who then hid the bodies. Bolívar Governor Francisco Rangel Gómez denies any such massacre occurred. 2016-03-7
Venezuela president Nicolás Maduro has announced new sanctions on the United States, including visa restrictions. He stated that Americans would have to obtain visas in order to enter Venezuela. Furthermore, Maduro announced that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Bob Menendez, and Marco Rubio would be banned from entering the country. 2015-02-28
At least 50 people are killed in rain-triggered landslides in the Bangladesh districts of Cox's Bazaar and Chittagong. 2012-06-27
At least 25 people die with dozens missing as a result of a landslide at a gold mining site in the Philippines Compostela Valley Province. 2012-01-5
President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez welcomes President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos to Caracas. 2010-11-2