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New Turkey quake kills one person, flattens more buildings

An earthquake shook southeast Turkey on Monday, killing one person, injuring 110 and causing 29 buildings to collapse, Turkish authorities said, triggering frantic work to rescue several people believed trapped in rubble.

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Admiral providing financial support to earthquake hit Turkey and Syria

Wales' only FTSE 100 firm had made a donation through its global emergency fund

Birmingham Post

Turkey's NATO talks with Sweden and Finland to resume on March 9

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday talks with Sweden and Finland over their NATO membership bids would resume on March 9, although he said Sweden had still not fulfilled its obligations under a memorandum signed last year.

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Egypt's foreign minister visits Syria for first time since war

Egypt's foreign minister arrived in Damascus on Monday, the first visit by an Egyptian foreign minister to Syria since its civil war began in 2011 and another sign of warming ties between President Bashar al-Assad and Arab states that once shunned him.

Reuters

Soccer-Besiktas fans throw toys on field for children affected by earthquake

Besiktas fans threw thousands of stuffed toys onto the pitch during Sunday's match against Antalyaspor to donate to children impacted by the earthquake in Turkey and neighbouring Syria.

Reuters

Quakes are inevitable. Huge death tolls are not

Earthquakes can neither be prevented nor predicted. If a Category 5 typhoon nears, evacuations are possible; there can be time to move to a safe zone before the pyroclastic flow of a volcano sweeps all in its path.

Bangkok Post

Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes

Patrols dispatched to frontier as migration minister calls for fences and surveillance as well as aid to preempt migration

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'Compassionate' chip shop owner dies in Turkey earthquake while visiting family

Nuri Dilek from Essex was reportedly visiting family in his native Turkey when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on February 6, which has since killed nearly 50,000 people and counting

Daily Mirror

Inside tent cities, Turkey's quake survivors wonder when they'll have a home again

Some of those who lost their homes in the earthquakes that devastated southern Turkey still need tents - and dream of someday having a container to live in.

WEKU

Latest tremor heaps misery on Turkish region reeling from earlier earthquake

Turkey continues to struggle in the wake of deadly earthquakes, with nearly 50,000 dead and millions homeless in the worst humanitarian crisis in the hundred-year history of the Turkish Republic. The crisis is now threatening to become a political one for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Radio France Internationale

Turkey launches investigation against more than 600 people over building collapses as toll exceeds 50,000

‘The detection of evidence in the buildings continues as a basis for criminal investigation’

The Independent UK

Glasgow aid worker begs Old Firm fans to help him save lives in earthquake disaster zone

As thousands descend on Hampden today, Kenny Hamilton asks them to spare a thought and a few pounds to help with the relief effort in Turkey and Syria after the devastating earthquake.

Glasgow Live

More than 180 people arrested over collapse of buildings after Turkish earthquakes

Justice minister Bekir Bozdag said on Saturday that more than 600 people had been investigated

Evening Standard

'My wife and baby son are sleeping on the streets in Turkey'

"My family is too scared to go back into their house, all the walls are cracked and crumbling”

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Liverpool Echo

Merseyside firefighters rescue people from 'utter carnage' of Turkey earthquake

Based in Croxteth the firefighters were among 77 British specialists deployed to help with search and rescue operations

Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles search-and-rescue teams return from Turkey after devastating earthquake

LOS ANGELES — Search-and-rescue workers from Los Angeles have returned from Turkey after spending weeks assisting in the aftermath of the region’s massive earthquake, which killed tens of thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.

Reuters

UN food agency chief tells of 'apocalyptic' scenes in quake-hit Turkey

The head of the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday he was confronted with "apocalyptic" scenes as he visited earthquake-stricken areas in southern Turkey.

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NI primary school pupils donate trip money to help Turkey and Syria earthquake victims

Pupils at King's Park Primary School in Newtownabbey raised the money to support relief work

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Belfast community rallies to support Turkish man who lost family members in earthquake

Mustafa Gunay lost his sister and her family when the earthquakes hit their home city of Antakya in Turkey

Reuters

Turkey widens probe into building collapses as quake toll exceeds 50,000

Turkey has arrested 184 people suspected of responsibility for the collapse of buildings in this month's earthquakes and investigations are widening, a minister said on Saturday, as anger simmers over what many see as corrupt building practices.

The Independent UK

Turkey launches investigation into 612 people after quake

Turkey's justice minister says investigations have been launched against more than 600 people in relation to buildings that collapsed in the country's catastrophic earthquake earlier this month

Reuters

Turkey quake survivors struggle to find shelter nearly three weeks on

Omran Alswed and his family are still living in makeshift shelters almost three weeks after the massive earthquake in southern Turkey, having been unable to find a place in an official camp.

Tribune News Service

Gearoid Reidy: Quakes are inevitable. Huge death tolls are not

Daily Mirror

Turkey hit by ANOTHER earthquake weeks after disaster that killed 50,000

Tens of thousands of people across Turkey and Syria were killed or made homeless after a series of earth-shattering quakes caused the collapse of countless buildings and ripped the ground apart earlier this month

WEKU

Turkey's Antakya is in ruins after the quake, erasing cultural and religious heritage

The city of Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, was at the crossroads of civilizations for centuries. After the Feb. 6 earthquake, many of its centuries-old monuments and sites lie in ruins.

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