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Rescue efforts continue amid growing criticism of UN response in Syria and calls for full humanitarian access

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

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.

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.

The new rules are designed to speed up deliveries.

Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless in often sub-zero winter conditions

The mother gave her young daughter a huge hug after being helped to freedom and safety

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…

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.

Images capture extent of devastation and destruction left behind by deadly earthquake

Ebru Ozturk has travelled to Kahramanmaraş where her brother Hakan is presumed to be under rubble