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Liverpool and Everton to unite to raise funds for victims of Turkey-Syria earthquake

More than 22,000 people are said have died following Monday night's earthquake

Liverpool Echo

Syrian family living in Northern Ireland lose over 20 relatives in Turkey earthquake disaster

"My mum has basically lost her entire family including all of her five sisters and four brothers"

Belfast Live

Japan’s Earthquake Recovery Offers Hard Lessons for Türkiye

Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived. What's left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society? What lingers over a decade later, even as the rest of the world moves on? Similarities…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Turkey and Syria earthquake: what we know so far on day five

Death toll passes 22,000; rescuers continue to pull people out of the rubble alive

The Guardian - AU

In Syrian government areas, quake survivors and rescuers struggle

The last thing Nuhad Dawoud heard before his home collapsed on top of him was the sound of his wife praying as the walls of their home shook in the early hours of Monday morning.

Reuters

Syrian baby born on day of earthquake brought mother 'back to life'

When the earthquake struck, Fatmah Ahmad's family fled their building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo only for her to go into labour - giving birth to her third child in hospital a few hours later.

Reuters

The Greater Manchester firefighters heroically helping with rescue efforts in earthquake devastated Turkey

The firefighters were flown out on Tuesday with the UK International Search and Rescue (UK ISAR) team.

Manchester Evening News

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Eddie Howe 'hugely worried' as search for missing ex-Newcastle winger Christian Atsu continues

The former Magpies winger was caught up in the devastating earthquake that hit parts of Turkey and Syria

Chronicle Live

Syrian Govt Approves Aid Delivery across Frontlines

Syria's government has approved humanitarian aid delivery across the frontlines of the country's 12-year-old war, state media said on Friday, a move that could speed up the arrival of help for millions of people affected by Monday's deadly quake. Aid distribution will take place in cooperation with the United Nations,…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Premier League makes $1.2 million quake donation to support relief efforts in Turkey and Syria

NEW DELHI: The Premier League is deeply saddened by the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and will make a $1.2 million donation to support relief efforts.

The Times of India

UK’s Turkish and Syrian communities rush to aid earthquake victims

Determination to get donations to stricken areas is galvanising people haunted by fears for family and friends

The Guardian - UK

Syrian govt approves humanitarian aid delivery across frontlines-state media

The Syrian government has approved humanitarian aid delivery across the frontlines of the country's 12-year civil war, state media said on Friday, a move that could speed up the arrival of help for millions of people affected by Monday's deadly quake.

Reuters

Turkey-Syria earthquake: why it is so difficult to get rescue and relief to where it is most needed

The death toll from the earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 has climbed above 21,000 in four days, exceeding the World Health Organization’s estimate of 20,000. But it continues to rise by the hour as more grim discoveries are made under the rubble.

The Conversation

Turkey and Syria earthquake latest: death toll rises to more than 23,700 – as it happened

Rescue efforts continue amid growing criticism of UN response in Syria and calls for full humanitarian access

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Reuters

Dutch to prosecute woman for Islamic State membership, Yazidi enslavement

Prosecutors in the Netherlands on Friday announced they plan to put a Dutch woman who joined Islamic State on trial for crimes against humanity for enslaving a Yazidi woman in Syria in 2015.

Daily Mirror

Baby just 10-days-old rescued from Turkey earthquake rubble after 90 HOURS

According to the latest official figures, the 7.7-magnitude earthquake - branded the "disaster of the century" by Turkish leader Recept Tayyip Erdogan - has claimed the lives of at least 17,674 people and another 3,377 in Syria

Los Angeles Times

A deadly building flaw common in California brings destruction and misery to Turkey

LOS ANGELES — As seismic engineers study the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria that killed more than 20,000 people this week, it's becoming clear that a significant cause of the destruction involved a building design common in California and other parts of the U.S.

The Times of India

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Rescuers pulled several people alive from the shattered remnants of buildings on Friday, some who survived more than 100 hours trapped under crushed concrete in the bitter cold after a catastrophic earthquake slammed Turkey and Syria, killing more than 22,000.

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Reuters

Cyprus probes washed up dead whales, earthquake link possible

A number of whales have washed up dead on the northern shores of Cyprus, authorities said on Friday, possibly affected by the massive earthquakes in neighbouring Turkey and Syria this week.

Al Jazeera

US exempts Syrian earthquake aid from sanctions

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.

The Guardian - UK

Survivors pulled from rubble 100 hours after quake as toll passes 24,000

Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless in often sub-zero winter conditions

The Conversation

Turkey-Syria earthquake: Assad blames west as agencies struggle to get aid to his desperate people

It didn’t take long for Syria’s Assad regime to seek political and economic benefit from the devastation of an earthquake. As emergency services were reaching victims of the 7.8-magnitude tremor on February 6, regime-linked organisations demanded governments “immediately end the siege and unilateral coercive economic sanctions imposed on Syria and…

Reuters

Enmities from Syrian civil war obstruct a quake aid convoy

An aid convoy from Syria's Kurdish-led region to earthquake-hit areas of the northwest was turned back on Thursday, failing to reach those in need in the latest example of how relief efforts are being complicated by civil war enmities.

The Independent UK

Satellite images reveal fault line through city near epicentre of Turkey’s deadly earthquake

Images capture extent of devastation and destruction left behind by deadly earthquake

Reuters

Syrian White Helmets chief slams U.N. earthquake response

The head of the Syrian "White Helmets" emergency response group accused the United Nations on Friday of failing to deliver appropriate humanitarian aid to rebel-held areas of the country ravaged by a major earthquake and its aftershocks.

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