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World powers rush to offer Turkey, Syria aid over quake 06 Feb 2023 - 04:37 pm
White Helmet rescue workers search for victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings, following an earthquake in the town of Sarmada in the countryside of the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, early on February 6, 2023.  (Photo by MUHAMMAD HAJ KADOUR / AFP)
Tremors felt in Iraqi, Jordanian governorates 06 Feb 2023 - 04:30 pm
Syrian rescue teams carry a casualty picked up from the rubble after an earthquake in the government-controlled central Syrian city of Hama on February 6, 2023. - A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on February 6, killing hundreds of people as they slept, levelling buildings and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus, Egypt and Iraq. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)
New 7.5-magnitude earthquake hits southeast Turkey: USGS 06 Feb 2023 - 02:25 pm
People search for survivors through the rubble in Diyarbakir, on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. Photo by ILYAS AKENGIN / AFP
Turkey declines Musk’s offer to send Starlink after deadly quake 06 Feb 2023 - 12:51 pm
People search for survivors through the rubble in Diyarbakir, on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. (Photo by Ilyas Akengin / AFP)
Major quake kills hundreds across Turkey, Syria 06 Feb 2023 - 12:03 pm
People gather around collapsed buildings as rescue teams look for survivors following an earthquake in the Syrian city of Aleppo on February 6, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
At least 245 dead in Syria after Turkey earthquake 06 Feb 2023 - 09:58 am
Residents gather in front of the rubble of a building that collapsed, following an earthquake in the village of Azmarin, near the Turkish border in the north of Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, early on February 6, 2023. (Photo by Omar Haj Kadour / AFP)
Major quake kills more than 100 across Turkey, Syria 06 Feb 2023 - 08:39 am
In this video grab from AFP TV taken on February 6, 2023, rescuers search for victims in southeastern Turkey (Photo by Mahmut BOZARSLAN / AFPTV / AFP)
Russia's Lavrov in Iraq for energy talks 05 Feb 2023 - 11:28 pm
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Iraqis protest after father kills YouTuber daughter 05 Feb 2023 - 07:47 pm
Iraqi women's rights activists lift placards during a rally near the Supreme Judicial Council in Baghdad on February 5, 2023, to protest the killing of Iraqi youtuber Tiba al-Ali by her father in Diwaniyah. (Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)
Key Iran opposition figure calls for 'fundamental' change 05 Feb 2023 - 05:02 pm
Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian (L) shake hands before a meeting at the Revolution Palace in Havana on February 4, 2023. (Photo by Yander ZAMORA / POOL / AFP)
Plummeting pound sends Egyptian private sector into decline 05 Feb 2023 - 01:15 pm
An employee counts Egyptian pounds at a foreign exchange office in central Cairo, Egypt, March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/
Egypt's former prime minister dies at 67: president 04 Feb 2023 - 10:32 pm
Former Egyptian prime minister Sherif Ismail. AFP
Iran slams UN nuclear watchdog chief after centrifuge report 04 Feb 2023 - 03:23 pm
Peninsula
Crafts festival seeks to attract visitors to Libya's 'pearl of the desert' 04 Feb 2023 - 01:01 pm
Peninsula
Iranian director Jafar Panahi released after hunger strike 04 Feb 2023 - 12:08 am
Film director Jafar Panahi and his wife, pose in Tehran, Iran in this undated picture obtained from social media on February 3, 2023. (@taherehsaidii/via REUTERS)
French envoy criticises Lebanon over 'slow' reforms needed for IMF loan 03 Feb 2023 - 09:03 pm
A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra shows Lebanon's caretaker Energy Minister Walid Fayad (right) meeting with French Envoy in charge of coordinating the international aid to Lebanon Pierre Duquesne in the capital Beirut on February 3, 2023. (Photo by DALATI AND NOHRA / AFP)
Slain Lebanon activist family calls for UN probe into port blast 03 Feb 2023 - 05:43 pm
FILE PHOTO: Lokman Slim, an activist and publisher who ran a research centre, speaks during an interview, in a still image taken from Reuters TV footage shot on February 2, 2009, in Beirut, Lebanon. Reuters TV/via REUTERS
Jailed Iran filmmaker Jafar Panahi says on hunger strike 02 Feb 2023 - 10:01 pm
Iranian film director Jafar Panahi smiles, following his release on bail, at his home in Tehran on May 25, 2010. File photo / Reuters