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Feb 2023
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UN Relief Chief: Turkey earthquake 'wors...

Bbc World Service
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The UN’s humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths has described the earthquake in Turkey as the worst natural disaster he’d ever seen in his decades of humanitarian work. While visiting the Turkish city of Kahramanmasa he told the BBC that the UN would work actively and firmly to open more crossings into north west Syria where so little aid has arrived. Also in ... Show More
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