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Feb 11 4 tweets 4 min read
#BREAKING Turkey arrests 48 people over looting after quake: state media
#UPDATE Rescuers pulled a baby and elderly woman from the rubble five days after a quake devastated Turkey and Syria.

But security concerns led some aid operations to be suspended, and 48 people have been arrested for looting or trying to defraud victims u.afp.com/imQY
#UPDATE Rescuers in southern Turkey pulled a seven-month-old baby and a teenage girl from the rubble on Sunday, nearly a week after an earthquake devastated Turkey and neighbouring Syria and killed more than 28,000 ▶️ u.afp.com/imAp #Hatay #Gaziantep
#UPDATE The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit southern Turkey and Syria will "double or more" from its current level of 28,000, UN relief chief Martin Griffiths has said ▶️ u.afp.com/imAG

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Feb 10
#BREAKING Up to 5.3 million people in Syria may be homeless after quake: UN Image
#UPDATE The UN rights chief called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria to facilitate the delivery of aid to all victims of the region's devastating earthquake, as another UN official said up to 5.3 million people in Syria may have been made homeless.

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In Syria's coastal city of Jableh, Mohammed Daya has turned his farmland into a makeshift graveyard, with cemeteries overwhelmed as more bodies are pulled from the rubble after Monday's devastating earthquake.

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Rescuers pulled children alive Friday from the rubble of the Turkey-Syria earthquake as the toll surpassed 22,000 and bitter cold compounded the suffering of the homeless.
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#BREAKING UN seeks aid for 874,000 Turkey-Syria quake survivors
#UPDATE The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) appealed on Friday for $77 million to provide food rations and hot meals for 874,000 people affected by the deadly earthquake in Syria and Turkey.
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VIDEO: Ukrainian rescuers arrive in Turkey.

Rescuers from the Ukrainian emergency services set up a "tent city" in the city of Antakya, Turkey, to begin search and rescue operations after the deadly earthquake that claimed thousands of victims in the region
"No government, no state, no police, no soldiers. Shame on you! You left us on our own."

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Rescuers continue to scour debris nearly 100 hours after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria, killing at least 21,000 people in one of the region's worst disasters for a century

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Feb 9
#BREAKING Death toll rises above 20,000 in Turkey, Syria quake
#BREAKING World Bank to provide Turkey $1.78 billion for recovery after earthquake
#UPDATE The death toll from the huge quake in Turkey & Syria climbed dramatically Thursday, topping 20,000 as the 1st UN aid reached Syrian rebel-held areas but hopes of finding more survivors faded.
AFP reports in text, video & 📸from the disaster zone
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#BREAKING Nicaragua frees more than 200 political prisoners, heading to US: relatives, opposition
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#UPDATE More than 200 detained members of Nicaragua's opposition were heading to the United States on Thursday after being freed by the government of President Daniel Ortega (pic, left), family members and opposition figures said ▶️ u.afp.com/im4s
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#UPDATE Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said Thursday that allegations of rights abuses by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region during the two-year war there amounted to "fantasy".
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