Turkey and Syria struggle to respond to devastating earthquakes; Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, puts forward possible pardons for thousands of protesters; and Brazilian President ...

The earthquake has already resulted in thousands of casualties in Turkey and Syria. Credit: Ilyas Akengin / AFP via Getty Images UPDATE: Feb. 22, 2023, 1:20 p.m. EST This story was updated to ...

The United Nations said on Tuesday that the earthquake has cost hundreds of thousands of workers in Turkey and Syria their livelihoods, and it demanded immediate assistance to rebuild businesses.

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Turkey and Syria are remembering the lives lost after a series of earthquakes killed over 59,000 people. Two years later, NHK World's Ohashi Takaomi visited Antakya, in southern Turkey, to tell us ...

A lack of water and sanitation, as well as the frigid temperatures, could continue to cost lives in the regions devastated by the earthquake. By MICHAEL STARR People sit around a fire near the ...

India rushed to provide aid in the form of ‘Operation Brahma’. This isn’t the first time that India is a first responder. It ...

Residents in Beirut and across Lebanon were startled at midnight by a 4.8 magnitude earthquake which struck Syria and Jordan and rattled their homes. Many feared it was one of the almost-daily ...

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Christian Atsu's whereabouts are unknown in the aftermath of earthquakes, which have killed over 21,000 people in Turkey and Syria.