Your Friday briefing: 20,000 dead in Turkey and Syria

Also, new US information on the Chinese spy balloon and the latest North Korean missile.

ImageThe aftermath of the earthquake in the Syrian town of Jinderis in the Aleppo province.Credit...Ghaith Alsayed/Associated Press
More than 20,000 dead
Turkey and Syria earthquake death toll topped 20,000 as rescue efforts failed, even as the first UN aid convoy reached Syria. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a press conference in the Turkish town of Osmaniye. and help desperate survivors. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless in sub-freezing temperatures.
In Kahramanmaras, a hard-hit Turkish town near the epicenter of the quake , survivors searched for missing relatives among masses of lifeless bodies. In Hatay, a parking lot in front of a hospital served as an open-air morgue. There, hundreds of families searched for dead relatives, opening and closing body bags, discouraged by the countless rows of corpses.
A plea for more help: International first aid has arrived in northwestern Syria, but rescue workers said the aid fell far short of what was needed. Almost three m...

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Your Friday briefing: 20,000 dead in Turkey and Syria

Also, new US information on the Chinese spy balloon and the latest North Korean missile.

The consequences of the earthquake in the Syrian city of Jinderis in the province of 'Aleppo.' class=

More than 20,000 dead

Turkey and Syria earthquake death toll topped 20,000 as rescue efforts failed, even as the first UN aid convoy reached Syria. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a press conference in the Turkish town of Osmaniye. and help desperate survivors. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless in sub-freezing temperatures.

In Kahramanmaras, a hard-hit Turkish town near the epicenter of the quake , survivors searched for missing relatives among masses of lifeless bodies. In Hatay, a parking lot in front of a hospital served as an open-air morgue. There, hundreds of families searched for dead relatives, opening and closing body bags, discouraged by the countless rows of corpses.

A plea for more help: International first aid has arrived in northwestern Syria, but rescue workers said the aid fell far short of what was needed. Almost three m...