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The man who survived the Turkey earthquake, and his family who didn't

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-09 10:41:36

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 home in Hata...

Mamma mia! Pizza got 16pc more expensive in the EU last year

-- 2023-02-08 21:55:04

The cost of store-bought pizza and quiche in the European Union grew in December by 16 per cent from a year earlier, the bloc's statistics agency Eurostat said on Wednesday. As food lovers in the US...

Hope fading as deaths in Turkey, Syria quake pass 11,000

-- 2023-02-08 18:03:49

With hope fading to find survivors, stretched rescue teams toiled through the night in Turkey and Syria, searching for signs of life in the rubble of thousands of buildings toppled by a catastrophic e...

Zelensky heads to London, wins promises of new military aid

-- 2023-02-08 17:21:57

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was due in London on Wednesday for only his second trip abroad since Russia invaded Ukraine, and won promises of new military aid, including training on advanced N...

Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll nears 10,000

-- 2023-02-08 16:30:01

Families in southern Turkey and Syria spent a second night in the freezing cold on Wednesday as overwhelmed rescuers raced to pull people from the rubble two days after a massive earthquake that kille...

Moscow intensifies winter assault, Kyiv expects new offensive

FE Online Desk 2023-02-08 11:50:41

Moscow pressed its intensifying winter assault in eastern Ukraine, bringing tens of thousands of freshly mobilised troops to the battlefield, while Kyiv predicted areas in the northeast or south could...

Rescuers dig through rubble as Turkey-Syria quake death toll passes 7,800

Reuters 2023-02-08 09:29:43

The death toll of a devastating earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria jumped to more than 7,800 people on Tuesday as rescuers worked against time in harsh winter conditions to dig survivors out of t...

Shipping containers ablaze at Turkey's Iskenderun Port, operations halted

-- 2023-02-07 21:01:16

Hundreds of shipping containers were ablaze at Turkey's Iskenderun Port on Tuesday, shutting down operations and forcing freight liners to divert vessels to other ports. Turkey's maritime authority s...

Erdogan declares state of emergency for Turkey quake zone

-- 2023-02-07 19:05:42

President Tayyip Erdogan declared on Tuesday a three-month state of emergency covering Turkey's 10 southern provinces hit by devastating earthquakes, and called it a disaster zone in a move meant to b...

In Turkey's worst-hit province, residents cry for help

-- 2023-02-07 17:34:42

"They're making noises but nobody is coming," Deniz cried out, holding his hands to his head as he railed against the lack of efforts to rescue those trapped under rubble after a powerful earthquake k...

French power supply reduced due to strike

Reuters 2023-02-07 14:18:15

French power supply has been reduced by 3.7 gigawatts as production at two nuclear reactors and several thermal plants was lowered due to a strike over planned pension reforms, data from power utility...

British health workers stage ‘largest strike in history’ demanding pay hike

-- 2023-02-06 18:36:40

Health workers in Britain began their largest strike on Monday, as tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walk out in an escalating pay dispute, putting further strain on the state-run Nati...

EU says it mobilises over 10 rescue teams to Turkey after earthquake

-- 2023-02-06 18:24:01

More than 10 search and rescue teams from the EU have been mobilised in the wake of the major earthquake that has hit Turkey, a spokesperson for the European Commission told reporters on Monday. "Urb...

Putin offers help to Syria, Turkey after major quake

-- 2023-02-06 18:12:14

President Vladimir Putin offered Russian assistance on Monday to Syria and Turkey after a major earthquake of magnitude 7.8 killed more than 500 people and injured thousands in the two countries. Rus...

Second earthquake of magnitude 7.6 hits Turkey's south

-- 2023-02-06 17:27:08

A second earthquake of magnitude 7.6 struck southeastern Turkey's Kahramanmaras region on Monday, the country's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said. It occurred at a depth of 7.0...

Earthquake death toll in Syria, Turkey keeps rising

-- 2023-02-06 16:55:22

A huge earthquake killed about 1,700 people and injured thousands more on Monday in central Turkey and northwest Syria, flattening apartment blocks and heaping more destruction on Syrian cities...

Italy withdraws tsunami warning after Turkey, Syria earthquake

-- 2023-02-06 15:33:59

Italian authorities said on Monday they had withdrawn a tsunami warning for the country's southern coast that was raised after a major earthquake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria, killing hun...

Over 600 dead as 7.8 quake jolts Turkey, Syria

-- 2023-02-06 15:23:47

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked southeastern Turkey and northern Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 600 people. Hundreds were still believed to be tra...

Deadly Turkey earthquake sends rescuers scrambling for survivors

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-06 10:39:38

A major earthquake of magnitude 7.9 killed more than 50 people in southern Turkey on Monday and was felt in Cyprus, Lebanon and Syria, collapsing dozens of buildings and triggering a search for...

UK's shortest-serving PM Liz Truss blames economic 'orthodoxy' for downfall

-- 2023-02-05 17:01:30

Former British prime minister Liz Truss blamed on Sunday the economic "orthodoxy" in the country's finance ministry, other nations and in parts of the governing Conservative Party for derailing her pr...

‘Putin promised not to kill Zelenskyy’

-- 2023-02-05 16:51:28

A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia's war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart. F...

Putin promised not to kill Zelenskyy, says former Israeli PM

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-05 15:22:03

A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia's war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart. For...

Cyprus heads to polls to pick new president with runoff expected

Reuters 2023-02-05 14:27:00

Cyprus voted on Sunday for a new president in an election that opinion polls indicate is unlikely to produce a clear winner, setting the stage for a runoff on Feb. 12. Heralding the end of two terms...

French PM offers to tweak pension overhaul for conservatives backing

Reuters 2023-02-05 12:34:00

French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne offered on Sunday to soften a planned pension overhaul to let some people who started work early also retire early in order to win conservatives support for the r...

Dozens of soldiers freed in Russia-Ukraine prisoner swap

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-05 10:21:44

Top Ukrainian presidential aide Andriy Yermak said in a Telegram post that 116 Ukrainians were freed. He said the released POWs include troops who held out in Mariupol during Moscow’s monthslon...

All of Ukraine will burn if US supplies more weapons: Medvedev

-- 2023-02-04 18:28:41

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said the supply of more advanced US weaponry to Ukraine will only trigger more retaliatory strikes from Russia, up to the extent of Russia's nuclear doctri...

Spanish high court backs man's right to walk naked in the street

-- 2023-02-04 17:40:00

A Spanish high court has ruled in favour of a man who was fined for walking naked through the streets of a town in the region of Valencia and later tried to attend a court hearing in the nude. In a s...

Zelensky vows to defend 'fortress' Bakhmut, hosts EU leaders in Kyiv

-- 2023-02-04 15:25:56

Ukrainians will fight "for as long as we can" to hold the eastern city of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Friday, as he hosted European Union leaders to discuss further sanctions on Rus...

Germany has evidence of war crimes in Ukraine 'in three-digit range': prosecutor

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-04 14:28:25

Germany has collected evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, the country's prosecutor general said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding that he saw a need for a judicial process at...

Russia dismisses reports that US offered Moscow secret Ukraine peace plan

-- 2023-02-03 17:07:40

The Kremlin on Friday rejected as a hoax media reports that US CIA Director William Burns had travelled to Moscow with a secret peace proposal that involved Ukraine ceding a fifth of its territory to...