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Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman.

International rescue teams have joined efforts in Venezuela, with a fine tens of thousands

of people who believed to be missing after last week's earthquakes.

More than 1,400 people have been confirmed dead, and PR Zader Perlta reports that the damage is widespread. The whole coast of the state of the White House is now lying with other destruction. Right now, I'm in front of what used to be a 16-story building below where he sent the towers that overlooked the Caribbean.

The two earthquakes have turned it into a pile of rubble. All that's left is a bangled mess of rebars, and a pile of concrete that is now stacked five stories high. The families are desperately looking for their loved ones. They say one rescue crew said it was too dangerous to work here, but they continue digging.

The smell of death fills the air, but they want to find their loved ones dead or alive. Your crane's military is hit Russia's oil refineries again this weekend. It's part of a long-range drone strike campaign to weaken Russia's ability to wage war. Russia also continued its near daily attacks on Ukrainian cities, and Paris-Turbanica Kisses reports from Kiev.

Writing on social media, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said the long-range drone

strikes targeting Russian oil and military infrastructure are aimed at reducing their resources, fueling Russia's war. This brings us one step closer to peace, he wrote. Zelensky said Ukrainian drones hit one Russian oil refinery about 186 miles from the front line, and another one more than 400 miles away from the border.

Russian authorities said one person was killed and another injured in the second strike.

Meanwhile, Russian drones damaged a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in Kiev. Joanna Kekysus and PR news, Kiev. Three Colorado firefighters were killed this weekend while battling wildfires along the Colorado Utah border, for his responders honored them with a procession Sunday in Grand Junction Colorado.

The nation's largest fire is the cottonwood fire in Utah, which is burned more than 146 square miles. Utah Forest Service official page, Panjoka says they're doing all they can to try and control that place. In the fire world, there's a fire triangle that has air and heats and fuel and we can't

control the air and we can't control the heat that we can try to control the fuel. So when these crews go out, they're trying their darned us to remove the fuel, so it keeps the fire from spreading. A large part of the U.S. will also be baking this week, whether officials say a major heat wave will hit the lower Great Lakes, the mid-Atlantic, and the Mississippi and Ohio River

Values, later in the week, the Great Plains and Southeast will also be affected, temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees or more in some areas. This is NPR News. Following a surge of militant attacks in recent weeks, Pakistani officials say security forces have launched an operation along its border with Afghanistan.

They say they're hitting militant hideouts and that so far 29 people have been killed. Earlier this weekend, militants attacked the regional headquarters of the military Rangers in Karachi, killing three people.

In World Cup action, the knockout round is begun, and the first knockout match had a thrilling

ending. Steve Futterman was there. For more than 90 minutes, Canada and South Africa could not score a single goal. Then in the 92nd minute, Canada's Stefan Yustakio blasted a shot from just outside the penalty box.

Just evaded the outstretched arms of the South African goalkeeper. There was a lation on the pitch among the Canadian players. Canadian fans who made the trip to LA were also related like Mark Speekman from Toronto. "I'm believe we're in service?" "Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're in service."

"And what do you think now?" "I mean, how far can this team go?"

"I think we can win the next game, I think we win the next game."

The next game for Canada will be against either Morocco or the Netherlands.

The US men played their first knockout match on Wednesday against Bosnia Herzegovina.

For NPR news, I'm Steve Futterman, been Los Angeles. Scottie Schaffler made an eight-foot put on the 18th hole Sunday. The force of play off at the PGA Championship in Connecticut, but the playoff will have to wait until Monday. Play was stopped for 90 minutes on Sunday, because of thunderstorms, and officials then

ruled there was not enough daylight to actually finish. Schaffler will face Victor Hovland in that playoff. "I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News." One of the world's most famous art detectives was on the hunt for a stolen Van Gogh. He turned to an unlikely source for help.

"You have won soccer plays, won teachers, won policemen, and I'm a born burger." On the Sunday story, how an art thief and an art detective set out to recover a missing masterpiece. Listen now to the Sunday story from the up-first podcast on the NPR app.

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