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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.

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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

The Guardian - AU

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.

Reuters

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

Daily Mirror

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.

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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.

The Times of India

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.

Reuters

US exempts Syrian earthquake aid from sanctions

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.

Al Jazeera

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 Guardian - UK

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…

The Conversation

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.

Reuters

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

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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.

The Guardian - UK

Pressure mounts on UN to provide urgent support to north-western Syria

Rescue teams say death tolls will continue to rise if UN does not speed up ‘overly cautious’ delivery of aid into rebel-held region

Bangkok Post

Children found alive as quake toll tops 22,000

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey: Rescuers pulled children alive on Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the death toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless.

Al Jazeera

‘Miracle’ baby born in the rubble as her mother died beside her

On a day of death and destruction, a newborn girl fought for her life in the rubble beside her mother’s lifeless body.

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The Independent UK

2 powerful quakes link Turkey, Japan and Syria in suffering

What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society

Reuters

After surviving Syrian war, earthquake kills most of a father's family

Naser al-Wakaa kept his family safe through years of war, bombings and air raids until Monday's earthquake struck their home in Jandaris in northwest Syria, levelling the building and burying his wife and most of his family under the masonry.

Manchester Evening News

Urgent appeal for generators, heaters and tents as temperatures plummet in quake-hit Turkey and Syria

The North West Turkish Community, which has opened collection points in Middleton and Trafford Park, says survivors are now battling the cold

The Conversation

Why have so many earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria?

Earthquakes in Syria and Turkey are common, but the magnitude 7.8 that shook the region on 6 February at 4:17am local time is clearly impressive. To find earthquakes this strong on this particular fault, we would have to go back to the year 1114.

The Independent UK

Appeal to help earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria raises £32m in 24 hours

The Disasters Emergency Committee’s fund was boosted by donations from the King and matching funding from the UK Government.

Al Jazeera

Rare rescues give hope amid rising quake toll in Turkey, Syria

Volunteers continue for a fifth consecutive day to dig into the debris amid despair and shrinking hopes.

The Guardian - UK

Geological impact of Turkey-Syria earthquake slowly comes into focus

Subsidence has caused flooding, while hillsides are at risk of landslip, which mean roads may need to be rerouted and people rehomed

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