Why the True Death Toll of Venezuela’s Quakes Is So Hard to Know
Five days after devastating twin earthquakes flattened entire residential neighborhoods, experts fear the official death toll of 1,719 could be a serious undercount.
Humanitarian Crisis News, Live and Structured
Real-time humanitarian crisis news, structured for developers. NewsMesh surfaces humanitarian crisis coverage from outlets across 35 countries and serves it as clean JSON, each story tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body. Pull it with full-text search (GET /v1/search?q=) and layer category, country, or date filters on top, no scraping required.
He survived 2 natural disasters in Venezuela's La Guaira. Now he vows never to return
Venezuelan merchant Grian Serrano has twice survived major natural disasters in the same place.
In pictures: Venezuela earthquakes death toll surpasses 1,700
Rescuers race to find survivors in Venezuela's quake-hit areas as families cling to hope amid widespread devastation.
Indian Army personnel attend to an earthquake affected person under Operation Amistad, at the International La Rinconada Racetrack in Caracas, Venezuela.
Indian Army personnel attend to an earthquake affected person under Operation Amistad, at the International La Rinconada Racetrack in Caracas, Venezuela. The Indian Army has est...
Israeli strike hits tent in Gaza, child among 3 dead
Deir Al-Balah (Gaza Strip), June 29: An Israeli airstrike killed at least three Palestinians, including a child, in the Gaza Strip on Monday, after hitting a tent sheltering dis...
Venezuelans search more quake ruins as attention turns to humanitarian crisis
Will the country be able to care for everyone who needs caring for?
‘Thug’ Venezuelan leader with $25M price on his head seen berating US earthquake rescue team
Venezuela's dreaded interior minister Diosdado Cabello — who is a wanted by by the US — has been slammed as a "thug" after videos showed him berating and hindering American resc...
Venezuelans search more earthquake ruins as attention turns to humanitarian crisis
With the window for finding survivors shrinking fast, Venezuelans combed Monday through more ruins of buildings toppled by last week's powerful back-to-back earthquakes, and att...
More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Venezuela's earthquake death toll rises amid magnitude-4.6 aftershock
As a magnitude-4.6 aftershock struck northern Venezuela, the nation's acting president announced "transitional camps" would be created to house the homeless.
Aftershock frays nerves as many Venezuelans left to fend for themselves
In devastated areas people are using crowbars, pickaxes and their bare hands to try to reach survivors.
As rescuers search for Venezuela earthquake survivors, how long can trapped victims survive?
Most rescues happen in the 24 hours after a disaster
Vancouver Island animal rescuer risks his life to save pets on Ukraine’s front lines
A Vancouver Island man is putting himself in the middle of an active war zone, helping evacuate hundreds of animals and the people who refuse to leave them behind. The post Vanc...
Venezuelans race against clock looking for earthquake survivors
Five days have passed since twin earthquakes struck northern Venezuela, killing more than 1,450 people, according to the government. Relief organizations say the first 72 hours ...
Inside Venezuela amid heroic earthquake rescue efforts
Venezuelans continue rescue efforts after two deadly earthquakes hit the South American country last week. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez has more.
Israel strike kills eight-year-old boy and his grandad in Gaza tent as Palestinian death toll tops 73,000
An Israeli drone strike hit a tent sheltering displaced people in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, killing at least three Palestinians including an eight-year-old boy and his grandf...
Israeli strike hits a tent in central Gaza, killing 3, including a child
Health authorities in the coastal enclave said the drone strike hit a neighborhood in Deir al-Balah, one of the least damaged towns in central Gaza.
A strong aftershock jolts Venezuela as rescue workers race to find survivors
The tremor struck early Monday near Caraballeda on the Caribbean coast, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale.
Israeli strike hits a tent in central Gaza, killing 3, including a child
Despite a ceasefire in October, Israeli forces have carried out near-daily strikes in Gaza, killing over 1,045 Palestinians, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.
Humanitarian Crisis News coverage
NewsMesh surfaces humanitarian crisis coverage from sources across 35 countries, normalised into one structured feed you can query by keyword, category, country, and date.
Pull Humanitarian Crisis News into your app
Authenticate with your apiKey and call one endpoint (GET api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?q=humanitarian+crisis). The examples below are ready to copy.
curl "https://api.newsmesh.co/v1/search?apiKey=nm_xxx&q=humanitarian+crisis&limit=20"Endpoints
GET /v1/latest: Most-recent articles, filterable by category, country, and date range.GET /v1/search: Full-text search across the archive with boolean operators and source filters.GET /v1/trending: Cached trending headlines, the fastest endpoint for homepage feeds.GET /v1/article/{id}: Fetch a single article and its full metadata by ID.
Guides
Frequently asked questions about Humanitarian Crisis News
How do I pull humanitarian crisis news from the API?
Call GET /v1/search?q=humanitarian crisis with your apiKey to return recent humanitarian crisis stories as structured JSON. Add &category= or &country= to narrow the results.
What does NewsMesh tag on each humanitarian crisis story?
Every humanitarian crisis article carries its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can route and filter without your own NLP layer.
Can I combine humanitarian crisis with category or country filters?
Yes. Add &category=technology (or business, politics, and more) and &country=us (or any ISO country code) to the search query to focus the feed.
Is humanitarian crisis news available in real time?
Yes. NewsMesh is a real-time news API: humanitarian crisis stories are served through the live /v1/latest and /v1/trending endpoints alongside a searchable archive, each tagged with its category, the countries it's relevant to, and the named people detected in the body, so you can build a live feed without scraping HTML.
How do I access the humanitarian crisis news feed?
Create a NewsMesh account, generate an API key, and call the endpoint above with your apiKey parameter. See the pricing page for current plans and rate limits.
Need more humanitarian crisis articles?
Access the full dataset programmatically with the NewsMesh API.