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The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has reached at least 11,376, according to authorities. In Turkey, the death toll has risen to at least 8,574, with nearly 50,000 others reported injured, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised briefing Wednesday, during a visit …

Footballer Christian Atsu has been pulled from the rubble of a building “with injuries” after the earthquakes in Turkey, his club’s vice-president Mustafa Özat has told Turkish radio. Atsu, who plays for Hatayspor, was trapped after the earthquakes that have killed at least 4,800 people. The ex-Ghana forward, 31, played …

At least 20 detainees at a Syrian prison – believed to be jihadists – have escaped after the quake damaged the facility, a source has told Agence France-Presse (AFP). The prison in the town of Rajo near the Turkish border holds about 2,000 inmates, with about 1,300 of them suspected …

More than 1,400 people were killed and thousands injured on Monday when a huge earthquake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria, pulversing apartment blocks and heaping more destruction on Syrian cities already devastated by years of war. The magnitude 7.8 quake, which hit in the early darkness of a winter …

Security services searched the home of one of Ukraine’s most prominent billionaires on Wednesday, moving against a figure once seen as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s sponsor in what the authorities called a war-time anti-corruption purge. The action, days before a summit with the European Union, appears to reflect determination by Kyiv …

The FBI is searching President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware as part of investigation into classified documents, his lawyer says. In a statement, Mr Biden’s attorney said the search was “planned” with the president’s “full support”. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064032245499 CBS has reported that the investigation relates to a …

Executions of prisoners have been carried out in Saudi Arabia with no advance warning to their families, relatives have told the BBC. The country’s execution rate has almost doubled since 2015 – according to a new human rights report – the year when King Salman and his son Mohammed bin …

Russian missile strikes killed three people in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson while fighting raged in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia again shelled the key town of Vuhledar, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine was facing a difficult situation in Donetsk and needed faster weapons supplies …

The United States military has carried out an operation that killed a senior ISIL (ISIS) leader in northern Somalia, US officials said. A statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Thursday said Bilal al-Sudani, a US-designated ISIL leader in Somalia and “key facilitator for ISIS’s global network”, was killed …

It’s been a political reshuffle with a difference. At the time of typing this, 11 officials have either resigned or been sacked as Kyiv tries to tackle government corruption. It’s led to some politicians in the US calling for aid to Ukraine to be restricted. President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying …