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Posted in Middle East News
Turkey: Turkey earthquake damage set to exceed $100 billion: UN agency
GENEVA: Damage caused by a devastating earthquake in Turkey will exceed $100 billion, a U.N. Development Programme official told a press briefing on Tuesday. “It’s…
Posted in Middle East News
Turkey: ‘Waiting for our dead’: Anger builds at Turkey’s earthquake response
GAZIANTEP: With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the…
Posted in Middle East News
‘I am used to being shaken, but this… we thought it was apocalypse,’ says survivor
The magnitude 7.8 quake, which hit before sunrise in bitter winter weather, was the worst to strike Turkiye this century. Residents jolted out of sleep…
Posted in Europe News
EU sends rescue teams to Turkey after deadly quake
BRUSSELS: The European Union is sending rescue teams and preparing further help for Turkey after a major earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, the bloc’s crisis…