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Rishi Sunak has said the UK is in “in touch” with allies after a minister claimed Chinese spy balloons may have already flown over the country. A number of flying objects have been shot down over North America during the past week, with a fourth taken out by fighter jets on Sunday on the orders

The World Health Organisation has said the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria have “overwhelmed everyone” – amid warnings the flow of aid must be urgently sped up to save lives. The number of people killed in both countries continues to grow and now stands at more than 33,000. Dr Michael Ryan, WHO’s executive director,

In the wasteland that scars the centre of Kahramanmaras in Turkey, we watched a pair of rescuers perched in a digger’s scoop as they investigated a great pile of concrete. Their mobile bucket took them up into the sky as they probed a toppled building. No one had checked this spot before. It is not

We meet him at the Kilis border with his head hanging heavy and his eyes red from crying. Mohamed Kenno, 21, has just come back from taking the bodies of his uncle and young cousin to relatives in Syria to be buried in their border town home, Azaz. His family fled the Syrian civil war

The death toll from the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria is likely to more than double, a UN aid chief has told Sky News. More than 25,000 people are known to have died after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck on Monday, with multiple aftershocks. Speaking to Sky’s Kay Burley in the quake-hit city of

Syria’s suffering is a unique desolation and inside Idlib we’ve seen the face of utter desperation. Here, they thought their plight couldn’t get any worse than running from shelling and cowering from regime bombs, but what was already an horrendously wretched life for millions, has become a whole lot more tragic since the earthquake. People

The air is filled with dust and smoke, the city marked with heaps of rubble – but there is evidence of life in Kahramanmaras. At the Ehbra apartment block we saw an Israeli rescue team exploring part of the structure, and as we arrived, they had made a life-saving discovery. A ripple of applause shot

The UK has sent thousands of thermal blankets to Turkey – and is planning to build a field hospital to treat those critically injured after Monday’s devastating earthquake. Rescue teams on the ground are making a final push to find survivors, in what Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described as the “disaster of the

The heart of this disaster lies at the end of the highway which leads to Kahramanmaras, a bustling city of a million people, perched up in the mountains of central Turkey. The setting is spectacular but this community also sits along the East Anatolian Fault. When two major earthquakes ruptured the surface on Monday, the

Turkey’s president has admitted there have been “shortcomings” in his country’s reaction to the devastating earthquake that has killed over 12,000 people. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing growing criticism from families left frustrated by a slow response from rescue teams, as hope dwindles that more survivors will be found. Many Turks have complained of a

Heart-wrenching footage has captured the moment rescue workers gave a little boy water with a bottle cap before pulling him out of wreckage nearly 45 hours after the Turkey-Syria earthquake. The young child, named as Muhammed Ahmed from Syria, had been trapped underneath rubble following the 7.8 magnitude quake since the early hours of Monday.

We meet Ahmat at one of the few functioning airports in the earthquake zone. He has travelled through the night from South Wales to reach his family home of Tut in the Adiyaman province of Turkey. His brother Ali has been killed after his home crumbled to the ground as a result of the earthquake.

Footage has emerged from Syria of the incredible moment men digging through rubble with their hands freed a tiny girl as her father tries to keep her calm. The father is heard saying to his young girl, Nour, “Dad is here, don’t be scared” as the search and rescue team furrow through large rocks to

More than 5,600 buildings in Turkey have been destroyed by yesterday’s powerful earthquake and aftershocks – as the long-running civil war in Syria complicates rescue efforts there. At least 4,310 people have died across both countries – and officials fear that the number of fatalities will rise further. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake happened before dawn

A huge rumbling crash, screeches of buckling metal and shouts from people running away can be heard in dramatic footage of a seven-storey building collapsing in Turkey. The tower block in Haliliye in eastern Turkey can be seen standing tall one moment, lying in ruins the next following a 7.8-magnitude earthquake on Monday – one

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake has shaken southeastern Turkey, killing at least 10 people according to authorities. The quake was centred about 33km (20 miles) from Gaziantep at a depth of 10km (6 miles) and there were five powerful aftershocks, according to reports. Several buildings have been destroyed as people gathered outside on snowy streets, according to

For beach-walking South Carolinians, it would have been quite the Saturday afternoon spectacle.  Two US fighter jets soaring above them, armed with air-to-air missiles. Then a launch. From an altitude of 58,000ft, one of the two jets fired a single ‘Sidewinder’ short range missile. It was 2.39pm eastern US time. Eyewitnesses on the ground in

Half a million people have been left without power after a “significant” accident at an electricity substation in Odesa, southern Ukraine. The Black Sea port and its surrounding areas were plunged into darkness following a large-scale network failure, Ukraine‘s grid operator Ukrenergo reported. It said the failure involved equipment “repeatedly repaired” after Russia’s attacks on

China has claimed the flight of an “airship” over the US was an accident and accused politicians and the media of taking advantage of the situation. The US claims the craft is a suspected spy balloon and said it had committed a “clear violation” of US sovereignty. China insisted it is used for meteorological and

A man wanted in connection with a drive-by killing in Essex has been arrested by police in Morocco. One of the UK’s most wanted suspects – Nana Oppong, previously of Newham, east London – was detained as he attempted to enter the North African country from Spain in September last year, according to the National