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DLR supports emergency responders in Turkey
Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)
A high-tech drone from Quantum Systems with an in-built MACS-nano camera system will fly over severely affected regions and send the images acquired from the ai...
Climate change may have toppled Hittite Empire: study
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
The Hittites dominated Anatolia in modern-day Turkey for nearly 500 years, even rivalling the power of the Egyptian Empire for a period. They were one of severa...
WHO chief says heading for Syria as aid reaches Syria rebel-held areas
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
"On my way to #Syria, where @WHO is supporting essential health care in the areas affected by the recent earthquake, building on our long-standing work across t...
After the silence, body bags: Turkish town counts its dead
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
Rescuers who ordered the eerie hush went into a hole in an apartment block turned into a pile of concrete and steel pancakes with blankets and a pillow. They ca...
World Bank to provide Turkey $1.78 bn for recovery after quake
Feb 09, 2023 (AFP)
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck as people slept early Monday, with Turkish officials saying that over 70,000 people have been injured across 10 southeastern prov...
NZ one of few island nations with potential to produce enough food in a nuclear winter
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
In a new study Professor Nick Wilson, from the University of Otago and independent researcher Dr Matt Boyd, from Adapt Research in New Zealand, say five island ...
WHO warns of worse secondary health crisis in quake zone
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
Monday's 7.8-magnitude tremor has killed more than 11,700 people in Turkey and Syria, flattening thousands of buildings and trapping an unknown number of people...
Fleeing war, Syrians lose adopted homes in Turkey quake
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
But little prepared him for the rumble of the 7.8-magnitude quake that devastated his adopted home in Turkey on Monday. The 42-year old joined nearly four milli...
UN pleads for access to deliver quake relief to NW Syria
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
Rebel-held areas near Turkey's border -- hard hit by the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck on Monday -- cannot receive aid from government-held parts of Syri...
'Waiting for our dead': Anger builds at Turkey's quake response
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
And with that fading hope, the 23-year-old's grief is being replaced by rage at the government's earthquake response. Monday's 7.8-magnitude pre-dawn tremor kil...
US says helping quake-hit Syria but not Assad
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
The United States also said it expected to send further assistance to Turkey after sending two rescue teams to the NATO ally, which suffered heavily as well in ...
Children pulled from rubble as Turkey-Syria quake toll tops 9,500
Feb 08, 2023 (AFP)
For two days and nights since the 7.8 magnitude quake an impromptu army of rescuers have worked in freezing temperatures to find those still entombed among ruin...
World powers rush to offer Turkey, Syria aid over quake
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
Here are some of the chief pledges of support. - European Union - The EU has mobilised 27 search and rescue and medical teams from 19 countries to help Turkey. ...
Colombia mulls cash-for-guns solution to urban crime
Feb 07, 2023 (AFP)
The interior ministry said a "disarmament campaign" led by President Gustavo Petro and the mayors of major cities "envisages the possibility of payment offers f...
Silent phones, freezing rain and anguish in Turkey quake
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
On the opposite side of the road, a distraught family walked in the freezing rain, their belongings piled into a stroller, looking for shelter to spend the nigh...
Biden 'deeply saddened' by Turkey, Syria quake; pledges US aid
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
"I am deeply saddened by the loss of life and devastation caused by the earthquake in Turkiye and Syria. I have directed my team to continue to closely monitor ...
Syria says quake aid will reach all its people
Feb 06, 2023 (AFP)
The 7.8-magnitude quake hit Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing thousands of people. Asked if aid donated to Syria -- some areas are held by rebels -- would rea...
Sixteen killed in China highway pile-up
Feb 05, 2023 (AFP)
Nearly 50 vehicles were involved in multiple collisions along a highway in Hunan province within the span of 10 minutes on Saturday evening, "with some vehicles...
Scientists track tropical landslide creeping below an African city
Feb 03, 2023 (JPL)
Now a team of international researchers, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has combined satellite and archival imagery to show how one Africa...
Dutch flood memories unleash new climate fears
Jan 30, 2023 (AFP)
And as the Dutch this week commemorate the great flood of 1953, thoughts are inevitably turning to current-day climate change and how the low-lying country rema...
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