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Glasgow aid worker begs Old Firm fans to help him save lives in earthquake disaster zone

As thousands descend on Hampden today, Kenny Hamilton asks them to spare a thought and a few pounds to help with the relief effort in Turkey and Syria after the devastating earthquake.

Glasgow Live

'My wife and baby son are sleeping on the streets in Turkey'

"My family is too scared to go back into their house, all the walls are cracked and crumbling”

Manchester Evening News

Surge in number of Britons fighting to hold on to their citizenship

After the Shamima Begum decision, figures show dramatic increase in challenges to Home Office

The Guardian - UK

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UN food agency chief tells of 'apocalyptic' scenes in quake-hit Turkey

The head of the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday he was confronted with "apocalyptic" scenes as he visited earthquake-stricken areas in southern Turkey.

Reuters

NI primary school pupils donate trip money to help Turkey and Syria earthquake victims

Pupils at King's Park Primary School in Newtownabbey raised the money to support relief work

Belfast Live

The earthquake that rocked Syria devastated millions already ravaged by war. Their dictator Bashar al-Assad saw an opportunity

From Vogue photoshoots to lunch with Brangelina, Syria's brutal ruling couple once tried to buy influence. After a decade as international pariahs, will they use a natural disaster to stage their return to the world stage?

ABC News

Belfast community rallies to support Turkish man who lost family members in earthquake

Mustafa Gunay lost his sister and her family when the earthquakes hit their home city of Antakya in Turkey

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Türkiye Widens Probe into Building Collapses as Quake Toll Exceeds 50,000

Türkiye has arrested 184 people suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in this month's earthquakes and investigations are widening, a minister said on Saturday, as anger simmers over what many see as corrupt building practices. Overnight, the death toll from the earthquakes, the most powerful of which struck…

Asharq Al-Awsat

At least ‘four Turkish journalists investigated over earthquake reports’

The Turkish death toll from the tremors now stands at more than 43,000, while the number of fatalities in neighbouring Syria, a nation already shattered by war, is close to 6,000

Evening Standard

Schools Reopen as Syrians Live with Quake’s Devastation

Schools resumed classes in Syria’s opposition-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region, local officials said, even as many schoolchildren suffer from shock. Many schools were turned into temporary shelters following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Türkiye and neighboring parts of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Schools reopen as Syrians live with quake's devastation

Local officials say that schools are reopening in Syria’s rebel-held northwest Saturday after closing for nearly three weeks following an earthquake that devastated the region

The Independent UK

Turkey hit by ANOTHER earthquake weeks after disaster that killed 50,000

Tens of thousands of people across Turkey and Syria were killed or made homeless after a series of earth-shattering quakes caused the collapse of countless buildings and ripped the ground apart earlier this month

Daily Mirror

Magnitude 5.5 Quake Strikes Central Türkiye Region

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck Central Türkiye on Saturday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center said. The quake was at a depth of 10 km, EMSC said. The combined death toll in Türkiye and Syria from a devastating earthquake earlier this month surpassed 50,000. The Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) announced…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Hints at Supplying Syria with Khordad Missile System

Iranian state television announced on Friday that Iran is likely to sell surface-to-air missiles to Syria, to help it boost air defenses in the face of repeated Israeli airstrikes. “Syria needs to rebuild its air defense network and requires precision bombs for its fighter planes,” Reuters quoted the Iranian state…

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Ilham Ahmed to Asharq Al-Awsat: Giving Legitimacy to Syrian Regime Will Not Yield Political Solution

Head of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Ilham Ahmed said cooperating with the Damascus regime “unconditionally” will only grant it some form of legitimacy and will not lead to a political solution to the Syrian conflict. Her remarks reflect the SDC’s opposition to Arab and regional efforts to normalize ties…

Al Jazeera

Death toll climbs above 50,000 after Turkey, Syria earthquakes

Nearly 240,000 rescuers continue to work in quake-hit provinces in Turkey, though no survivors have been found recently.

ABC News

Türkiye and Syria earthquake death toll passes 50,000, as 18,000 war refugees return to Syria

Many Syrians who went to Türkiye — which is home to more than three-and-a-half million refugees — to escape the civil war, say the earthquakes were even more frightening than the conflict.

Reuters

Earthquake death toll surpasses 50,000 in Turkey and Syria

The death toll from the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that struck on Feb. 6 surpassed 50,000 on Friday after Turkey declared more than 44,000 people died.

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Air strike hits northwest Syria, kills 2 in first aerial bombardment since earthquake

At least two people were killed in an air strike on a motorcycle in the rebel-held zone of northwest Syria on Friday, the local civil defense said, in the first aerial bombing on the area since a devastating earthquake nearly three weeks ago.

Al Jazeera

Syrian refugees in Turkey face return to quake-stricken areas

Gov’t directives issued after quakes allow refugees in affected provinces to move around, but only for a limited time.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Türkiye Starts Work to Build Homes in 2 Earthquake-Hit Towns

Turkish authorities on Friday said preliminary work has started to build housing for people left homeless by the massive earthquake that hit parts of the country and neighboring Syria, killing tens of thousands. Murat Kurum, the minister for the environment, urbanization and climate change, said on Twitter that excavations were…

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin to ‘put screws harder and harder’ into Ukraine as his war aims fail

A war crimes investigator who analysed Russian activity in Syria for the United Nations, told The Mirror he fears civilian deaths will increase as Vladimir Putin's aims fail a year on

The Independent UK

Report: Istanbul bomb suspect killed in operation in Syria

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish forces have killed the alleged planner of a deadly Istanbul street bombing, in an operation in northern Syria

Asharq Al-Awsat

EU Eases Sanctions on Syria to Speed up Aid to Quake Victims

The European Union said on Thursday it was temporarily easing sanctions on Syria to speed up aid deliveries to the country two weeks after the devastating earthquake. The change made Thursday means "the EU has waived the need for humanitarian organizations to seek prior permission from EU member states' national…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Türkiye Says Istanbul Bomb Suspect Killed in Syria Operation

Turkish forces have killed the alleged mastermind behind a deadly Istanbul street bombing in an operation in northern Syria, Türkiye’s state-run news agency reported. The man, identified as Halil Menci, was “neutralized” in an operation by Turkish intelligence agents, The Associated Press quoted the agency as saying. It did not…

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