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Emergency teams with rescue dogs were searching Sunday for any remaining survivors of powerful twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela, where the death toll has surpassed 1,450 and nearly 200 buildings have completely collapsed.

Iran's top diplomat warned Sunday that any attempt to bypass the Strait of Hormuz routes agreed with the United States would "increase tensions" in the Middle East, as the countries traded attacks and accusations of violating a fragile truce.

Thousands of foreign nationals are stranded in Cape Town, either outside consulates or at a Home Affairs Repatriation Centre in Epping.

Rescue crews raced Sunday to find survivors in the rubble of Venezuela's powerful earthquakes as the death toll reached 1,430 and hopes dwindled more than three days after the earth roared and rumbled.

Party founder Bantu Holomisa has been re-elected unopposed as leader of the United Democratic Movement.