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Fundraisers for Syria, Turkey earthquake try to deliver aid

NEW YORK (AP) — Humanitarian groups working in southern Turkey and northwest Syria warn that Monday's earthquake will have a “long tail” — a wide range of needs that will require donations for months, or even years, after the rescue and recovery missions end. Among the worst in...

Rescuers rejoice as more quake survivors emerge from rubble

Six relatives huddled in a small air pocket, day after day. A desperate teenager grew so thirsty that he drank his own urine. Two frightened sisters were comforted by a pop song as they waited for rescuers to free them. These earthquake survivors were among more than a dozen people pulled...

Syrian White Helmets chief slams U.N. earthquake response

The head of the Syrian White Helmets emergency response group today accused the United Nations of failing to deliver appropriate humanitarian aid to opposition-held areas of the country ravaged by a major earthquake and its aftershocks, Reuters reports. Raed Al Saleh, who leads the group,...

2 powerful quakes link Turkey, Japan and Syria in suffering

TOKYO (AP) — Mountains of rubble and twisted metal. Death on an unimaginable scale. Grief. Rage. Relief at having survived. What's left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society? What lingers over a decade later, even as the rest of the world...