09 Feb 2023; AA: A 33-year-old Azerbaijani citizen, whose photo showing him driving a car with a Turkish flag on the top of the vehicle overloaded with assistance for the people affected by the earthquake in Türkiye went viral on the social media, told Anadolu that he feels it as his duty to support the earthquake victims of the "brotherly" country.
11 Feb 2023; MEMO: Cypriot officials announced on Friday that several whales had washed up on Cypriot coasts that may have died due to the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkiye and Syria.
Three out of seven whales washed up in various locations across the Cypriot coasts were found alive and were returned to the water during the last few days. However, they were found dead later on.
11 Feb 2023; MEMO: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved a $120 million loan for Tunisia to fund small and medium enterprises, the World Bank confirmed earlier this week.
According to the World Bank, the loan aims to finance Tunisian institutions for lending to eligible small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
CAIRO, Feb 11 (NNN-MENA) – At least nine people were killed and several others wounded yesterday, after a passenger microbus collided with a truck on El Wahat Road in Giza province, south-west of the capital, Cairo, an Egyptian Health Ministry official said.
“Nine people were killed and nine others wounded in the accident,” said Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, spokesman of the Health Ministry, adding that, some of the wounded were in critical conditions.
BEIRUT, Feb 11 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese Agriculture Minister, Abbas Hajj Hassan, said yesterday that, the intensified U.S. sanctions on Syria would not stand in the way of Lebanon’s efforts to provide humanitarian support for its neighbour.
The Lebanese government is “aware of the Caesar Act and its conditions, and it won’t stand in our way of going to Syria,” Hajj Hassan said, in a televised interview with Alghad TV.
He was referring to the U.S. legislation in 2019, that sanctions the Syrian government.
ISTANBUL, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday the government would take action against those involved in looting and other crimes in the region hit by this week's devastating earthquakesas the issue of security there came into focus.
"We've declared a state of emergency," he said during a visit to the disaster zone. "It means that, from now on, the people who are involved in looting or kidnapping should know that the state's firm hand is on their backs," he said.
KIRIKHAN, Turkey, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A woman died in hospital on Saturday a day after she was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Turkey, where she had been trapped for 104 hours since Monday's devastating earthquake, rescuers said.
German rescuers pulled 40-year-old Zeynep Kahraman out of the rubble in the town of Kirikhan in southern Turkey on Friday. They hailed her survival a "miracle" as search and rescue efforts in the aftermath of the region's deadliest quake in decades kept turning up more bodies.
ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Rescuers in Turkey pulled more people from the rubble early on Saturday, five days after the country's most devastating earthquake since 1939, but hopes were fading in Turkey and Syria that many more survivors would be found.
In Kahramanmaras, close to the quake's epicentre in southern Turkey, there were fewer visible rescue operations amid the smashed concrete mounds of fallen houses and apartment blocks, while ever more trucks rumbled through the streets shipping out debris.
ISTANBUL, Feb 11 (Reuters) - A border gate between long-feuding Turkey and Armenia has been opened for the first time in 35 years to allow aid for victims of the devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey, state-owned Anadolu news agency and a diplomat said.
Turkey's special envoy for Armenia, Serdar Kilic, tweeted photos of trucks passing through the Alican checkpoint at the Turkish side of the Aras river separating the two countries.
Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Islamic Republic marked the 44th anniversary of the Iranian revolution on Saturday with state-organised rallies, as anti-government hackers briefly interrupted a televised speech by President Ebrahim Raisi.
Raisi, whose hardline government faces one of the boldest challenges from young protesters calling for its ouster, appealed to the “deceived youth” to repent so they can be pardoned by Iran's supreme leader.
In that case, he told a crowd congregated at Tehran's expansive Azadi Square: “the Iranian people will embrace them with open arms”.
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