Thousands of buildings collapsed during the earthquake, raising questions about whether the natural disaster's impact was made worse by human failings. Turkey's President Erdogan has admitted ...
which was destroyed during the 526 earthquake in Antioch, by artist Louis Francois Cassas (Public domain) The Middle East has suffered a large number of quakes across the centuries, including some ...
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An earthquake killed at least 125 people and left 188 injured after it struck a remote area of southern Tibet near China’s border with Nepal at dawn on Tuesday, Chinese state media reported.
US embassy in Damascus advises Americans to leave Syria as it issues warning about armed conflict and ‘terrorism throughout the country’ ...
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Even before the earthquake the situation in much of the ... However, BBC Monitoring's Hesham Shawish, a Middle East specialist, says this is not enough to deal with the scale of the destruction.