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In Sudan, 150 Families Risk Lives To Feed Each Other
Sameh Makki's soup kitchen is barely 100 metres from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan's war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets.
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"I'd Rather Die": Syrians In Lebanon Fear Deportation
Samer and his family thought they had found safety in Lebanon after fleeing Syria's war nearly a decade ago, but amid growing anti-refugee sentiment, Beirut handed his brother to the Syrian army.
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Turkish Families Shelter On Trains After Losing Homes To Quake
Sabriye Karan's late husband worked for the Turkish national rail company for 32 years and her daughter Nehir grew up riding trains. After powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and damaged her home, she and Nehir moved into one.
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"We Are Waiting," Turkey Quake Survivors Struggle To Find Shelter
Nearly two million people left homeless by the quake are being housed in tents, container homes and other facilities in and beyond the region, according to Turkish authorities, but Alswed, 25, said his extended family had not yet benefitted.
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Family Of 7 Survived Turkey Quake, Died In Fire At Home They Had Moved Into
Five Syrian children and their parents died today in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after surviving last week's earthquake, local media reported.
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"Is This A Dream?": Syrian Woman Rescues Children In "Miracle" Escape
When she felt the first tremors of the earthquake which hit Syria and Turkey last week, Um Kanan woke her three children and rushed them to a small closet in her bedroom for shelter, along with a collection of family photos and documents.
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Drone Footage Shows Depth Of Destruction In Turkish Town After Quake
Drone footage in the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras showed the devastation caused by the earthquake, collapsing dozens of buildings and forcing hundreds of families to live in tents erected in a stadium in freezing temperatures.
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Rescuers In Turkey Dig To Rescue Family Week After Quake
Rescuers in Turkey pulled out several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday and were digging to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter from a single family, a week after the country's worst earthquake in modern history.
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"Most Of My Family Is Gone": Turkish Woman Wants To Leave Hometown
Aslihan Kavasoglu has spent the last six days camped out with her family in a small building in a park in the Turkish city of Antakya, mourning lost relatives. Now all she wants to do is to leave her quake-devastated hometown.
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Video: Smiles, Tears, Cries As Family Of 5 Rescued From Syria Quake Rubble
Thousands of rescue workers are still scouring through flattened buildings after a massive earthquake left a trail of destruction in Syria and Turkey that killed more than 28,000 people.
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Video: Man Points At Rubble, Cries For His Family Killed In Turkey Quake
As hope for survivors in Turkey faded on Saturday, 6 days after a devastating earthquake that has claimed the lives of over 25,000 people, a particularly heart-wrenching sight chalked out the mood.
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Syrian Baby, Born On Day Of Earthquake, Brought Mother "Back To Life"
When the earthquake struck, Fatmah Ahmad's family fled their building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo only for her to go into labour - giving birth to her third child in hospital a few hours later.
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"Sister Was Sleeping Next To Me": Orphaned Syria Boy Saved After 42 Hours
Rescuers working by torchlight pulled three-year-old Tariq Haidar from the rubble some 42 hours after a devastating earthquake destroyed his family home in the Syrian town of Jandaris. His family couldn't be saved.
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Syria Family That Survived War Forced To Abandon Home After Earthquake
Masoud Douba did not abandon his home over years of bombardment in the Bustan alBasha district on the frontline of Syria's Aleppo but Monday's earthquake forced his family
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The Man Who Survived Turkey Earthquake, And His Family Who Didn't
Peering out from under a large slab of concrete and brick, Abdulalim Muaini gestures weakly at his rescuers. It has been over two days since a massive earthquake brought his
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In Sudan, 150 Families Risk Lives To Feed Each Other
Sameh Makki's soup kitchen is barely 100 metres from the market, but it can take two hours to make the journey through Sudan's war-torn streets, often through hails of bullets.
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"I'd Rather Die": Syrians In Lebanon Fear Deportation
Samer and his family thought they had found safety in Lebanon after fleeing Syria's war nearly a decade ago, but amid growing anti-refugee sentiment, Beirut handed his brother to the Syrian army.
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Turkish Families Shelter On Trains After Losing Homes To Quake
Sabriye Karan's late husband worked for the Turkish national rail company for 32 years and her daughter Nehir grew up riding trains. After powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and damaged her home, she and Nehir moved into one.
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"We Are Waiting," Turkey Quake Survivors Struggle To Find Shelter
Nearly two million people left homeless by the quake are being housed in tents, container homes and other facilities in and beyond the region, according to Turkish authorities, but Alswed, 25, said his extended family had not yet benefitted.
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Family Of 7 Survived Turkey Quake, Died In Fire At Home They Had Moved Into
Five Syrian children and their parents died today in a fire that struck a Turkish home they moved to after surviving last week's earthquake, local media reported.
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"Is This A Dream?": Syrian Woman Rescues Children In "Miracle" Escape
When she felt the first tremors of the earthquake which hit Syria and Turkey last week, Um Kanan woke her three children and rushed them to a small closet in her bedroom for shelter, along with a collection of family photos and documents.
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Drone Footage Shows Depth Of Destruction In Turkish Town After Quake
Drone footage in the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaras showed the devastation caused by the earthquake, collapsing dozens of buildings and forcing hundreds of families to live in tents erected in a stadium in freezing temperatures.
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Rescuers In Turkey Dig To Rescue Family Week After Quake
Rescuers in Turkey pulled out several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday and were digging to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter from a single family, a week after the country's worst earthquake in modern history.
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"Most Of My Family Is Gone": Turkish Woman Wants To Leave Hometown
Aslihan Kavasoglu has spent the last six days camped out with her family in a small building in a park in the Turkish city of Antakya, mourning lost relatives. Now all she wants to do is to leave her quake-devastated hometown.
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Video: Smiles, Tears, Cries As Family Of 5 Rescued From Syria Quake Rubble
Thousands of rescue workers are still scouring through flattened buildings after a massive earthquake left a trail of destruction in Syria and Turkey that killed more than 28,000 people.
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Video: Man Points At Rubble, Cries For His Family Killed In Turkey Quake
As hope for survivors in Turkey faded on Saturday, 6 days after a devastating earthquake that has claimed the lives of over 25,000 people, a particularly heart-wrenching sight chalked out the mood.
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Syrian Baby, Born On Day Of Earthquake, Brought Mother "Back To Life"
When the earthquake struck, Fatmah Ahmad's family fled their building in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo only for her to go into labour - giving birth to her third child in hospital a few hours later.
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"Sister Was Sleeping Next To Me": Orphaned Syria Boy Saved After 42 Hours
Rescuers working by torchlight pulled three-year-old Tariq Haidar from the rubble some 42 hours after a devastating earthquake destroyed his family home in the Syrian town of Jandaris. His family couldn't be saved.
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Syria Family That Survived War Forced To Abandon Home After Earthquake
Masoud Douba did not abandon his home over years of bombardment in the Bustan alBasha district on the frontline of Syria's Aleppo but Monday's earthquake forced his family
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The Man Who Survived Turkey Earthquake, And His Family Who Didn't
Peering out from under a large slab of concrete and brick, Abdulalim Muaini gestures weakly at his rescuers. It has been over two days since a massive earthquake brought his
