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/ Middle East HOUR BY HOUR Issued on: 16/02/2023 - 07:40Modified: 16/02/2023 - 11:30 People sit at a camp next to the site of destroyed high-end building, in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Antakya, Turkey February 16, 2023. © Maxim Shemetov, Reuters The February 6 earthquakes that killed…

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Syrian earthquake and Antonio Guterres UN Secretary-General António Guterres, has announced a US$397 million humanitarian appeal to aid the people of earthquake-ravaged Syria, to help secure “desperately needed” relief for nearly five million people. Mr Guterres, who disclosed this in an interview with UN correspondents on…

BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen stormed a hospital in north Syria where a baby girl is receiving care after being born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home, a hospital official said Tuesday, adding that the attackers beat the clinic’s director. The official denied reports on social media claiming that…

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BEIRUT (AP) — A baby girl born under the rubble of her family’s home in northern Syria after last week’s devastating earthquake was in good health Monday and being breastfed by the wife of the director of the hospital where she is being cared for, her doctor said. The infant,…

Turkish authorities have allowed the bodies of Syrian refugees to be returned to Syria for burial Benoit Tessier/Reuters As of today, 33,000 people are known to have died as a result of the two earthquakes which ravaged southern Turkey and northern Syria last Monday, on February 6, 2023. 80,000 are…

A newborn baby discovered under rubble in a northwestern Syrian town with her umbilical cord still connected to her mother is improving in the hospital. Video / AP When Zafer Mahmut Boncuk’s apartment building collapsed in Turkey’s devastating earthquake, he discovered his 75-year-old mother was still alive - but pinned…

/ Middle East HOUR BY HOUR Issued on: 12/02/2023 - 07:22 A Turkish rescue worker checks a collapsed building in Adiyaman, southern Turkey, February 11, 2023. © Emrah Gurel, AP Rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after an earthquake…

Embed The code has been copied to your clipboard. width px height px The URL has been copied to your clipboard No media source currently available The United States has pledged more than $85 million dollars in humanitarian assistance to Turkey and Syria after an earthquake killed more than 20,000…

ISTANBUL Rescuers pulled out children Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll approached 23,000 and a winter freeze compounded the suffering for nearly one million people estimated to be in urgent need of food. The stench of death hung over Turkey's eastern city of Kahramanmaras --…