Day: February 21, 2023

A baby girl who was born under the rubble of her family’s earthquake-shattered home has left the hospital and gone to her new home, where she will live with her paternal aunt’s family. The girl had been at the hospital since hours after the February 6 earthquake. She was discharged Saturday and her aunt and uncle adopted her and gave her a new name, Afraa, after her late mother. Afraa's mother died in the quake along with her father and four siblings. A day after the infant arrived at the hospital, officials there named her Aya — Arabic for “a sign from God.” READ MORE: 'I think this is the last video I will ever shoot for you': Turkish teen filmed 'last moments' from apartment Khalil al-Sawadi holds Afraa, a baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthq...

More than two weeks after a toxic train wreck unleashed plumes of black smoke, contaminated the soil and fuelled anxiety in East Palestine, Ohio, residents have reported a growing number of ailments – from rashes to nausea to trouble breathing. Now, the state will open a health clinic on Tuesday for residents who worry their symptoms might be linked to the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train and the subsequent release of the toxic chemical vinyl chloride. And medical teams from the US Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health will be on the ground in Ohio this week, at the request of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. The teams will help assess what dangers might remain in the community of about 5000 people. READ MORE: Police i...

Around 7pm on Saturday night, US President Joe Biden was out in Washington on a Valentine's week date-night, lingering over rigatoni with fennel sausage ragu before returning with his wife to the White House. The next time he was seen in public was 36 hours later, striding out of St Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv into a bright winter day, air raid sirens wailing a reminder of both the risks and reason for visiting Ukraine as it nears a second year of war. Cloaked in secrecy and weighted with history, Biden's trip was the work of months of planning by only a small handful of his senior-most aides, who recognised long ago the symbolic importance of visiting the Ukrainian capital a year after Russia tried to capture it. READ MORE: Police identify body of mum who vanished while...

A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake on Monday killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of Turkey laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands, authorities said. More buildings collapsed, trapping some people, while scores of injuries were recorded in neighbouring Syria too. Monday's earthquake was centred in the town of Defne, in Turkey's Hatay province, one the worst-hit regions in the magnitude 7.8 quake that struck on February 6. READ MORE: Police identify body of missing British mother Nicola Bulley It was felt in Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Israel and as far away as Egypt, and followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 temblor. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said three people were killed and 213 injured. Search and ...