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Earthquake response: Turkish and Syrian communities in the UK organise relief efforts
People from Britain’s Turkish and Syrian communities have responded quickly to the earthquake crisis.
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UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo explains the situation in Syria after deadly earthquakes
We were joined by Angela Kearney, UNICEF’s representative in Aleppo.
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Turkey quake: Voices call from under rubble as rescuers race to help
Right across the regions affected by the quake, there has been growing anger with the lack of aid as rescue teams struggle to cope with the sheer scale of the destruction.
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Earthquake: Emergency upon emergency as crisis hits war-torn Syria
In Syria, as in Turkey, they are desperately going through rubble, trying to pull survivors out. With the official number killed heading towards 2000.
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‘When it comes to Syria, it is a much more complicated issue’, says Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell on quake rescue
The Foreign Office has said this evening that a plane carrying 77 UK search and rescue specialists, state-of-the-art equipment and four search dogs has landed her in southern Turkey.
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‘Situation in Syria is worse than what we are seeing in the media,’ says a Syrian emergency worker
We were joined by Ali Rahbe from the Syrian Emergency Taskforce, a US-based organisation which backs the Syrian opposition.
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Turkey earthquake: Race to rescue thousands from under the rubble
More than seven thousand people are confirmed to have died across Syria and Turkey.
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Devastating aftermath of deadly earthquakes being felt across Turkey
Our reporter Emily Wither is in Adana, a city in southern Turkey that’s around 150 miles from the first quake’s epicentre.
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Earthquake victims in Turkey need shelter, blankets and food says Red Crescent Turkey
The Foreign Office has pledged to help Turkey with the deployment tonight of search and rescue specialists, equipment and an Emergency Medical Team.
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Syria ‘not ready to handle this kind of disaster’, says White Helmets volunteer
We spoke with Ismail Alabdullah, from the Syrian White Helmets, in Northern Idlib.
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Those who had fled violence multiple times among Syrian earthquake victims
The scenes of devastation in Syria are distressingly familiar. But as the emergency workers known as the White Helmets pull people from the rubble today, the cause is a natural disaster, rather than the war that’s inflicted so much suffering over the past 12 years.
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Pervez Musharraf: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister dies aged 79
The former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has died at the age of 79. He was a key ally during America’s war on terror, but he became a hugely divisive figure in his own country. He passed away in hospital in Dubai, where he’d been living in self imposed exile for several years.
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US navy collects debris after shooting down Chinese ‘spy’ balloon
The United States has insisted that the high altitude Chinese balloon which it shot down last night over the Atlantic was being used for surveillance. President Biden described the mission as a success while the US Navy and Coast guards are now searching the area for debris. China has lodged a formal protest, accusing…
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‘It’s not easy to talk about honour killings in Iraq,’ says adviser to Iraq’s Prime Minister
We spoke to Ala Talabani, who’s an advisor to the Iraqi Prime Minister on Women’s Affairs in Baghdad, and began by asking how people in Iraq have responded to the young woman’s killing.
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Iraqi Youtuber killed by father in ‘honour killing’
The death of a young Iraqi Youtube star at the hands of her father has sparked outrage across the country over the practice known as ‘honour killing’. 22-year-old Tiba al-Ali had been living in Turkey, where she posted regular videos about her daily life with her fiance. She was killed after returning to Iraq to…