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ED moves Kerala High Court seeking cancellation of bail granted to Santhosh Eappen

Santhosh Eappen is an accused in the Life Mission corruption case

The Hindu

Turkey Red Crescent head resigns following controversy over quake tents

The head of the Turkish Red Crescent resigned on Friday, the relief association said, three months after controversy emerged over the selling of tents to a charity in the first days after devastating earthquakes in Turkey.

Reuters

Sudanese flee to Egypt as Cairo works to avoid ‘refugee crisis’

Processing on the Egyptian side is slow, with some people waiting days to hear their names called so they can proceed.

Al Jazeera

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Dozens of bodies float ashore in Libya after migrant boats sink

At least 57 bodies have been washed ashore after two migrant boats sank in the Mediterranean off different towns in western Libya, a coast guard officer and an aid worker said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Three United Nations among around 60 killed in Sudan as crisis unfolds

The Sudanese Red Crescent says hospitals are overwhelmed by the growing number of casualties and Pope Francis said he was following “with worry” the events unfolding in the country

Daily Mirror

Israel Strikes 'Hamas' Sites in Response to Rockets Fired from Gaza

The Israeli military said its fighter jets had struck weapons manufacturing and storage sites in the Gaza Strip belonging to Hamas, setting off ground-shaking explosions heard across the blockaded coastal strip. “This strike was carried out in response to rockets fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israeli territory earlier,” it…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Turkish President asks for forgiveness over earthquake rescue delays

In a bid to quell rising anger over the handling of last month's deadly earthquakes, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week paid a visit to the south-eastern city of Adiyaman. He apologised and pledged a massive housing reconstruction project for survivors.

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Doctors from Qatar, US work to save quake survivors in NW Syria

Medical specialists have entered opposition-held areas, bringing much-needed expertise and supplies.

Al Jazeera

LIFE Mission Case: Court Ends Kerala CMO's Former Principal Secy M Sivasankar To 5-Day ED Custody

A special PMLA court on Wednesday sent the former Principal Secretary to Kerala Chief Minister Office, M Sivasankar to five days of remand till February 20 in the custody of Enforcement Directorate (ED). Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Ikea Foundation sends shelters to Syria and Turkey as firms offer earthquake aid

First relief housing units arrive in Hatay province, Amazon sends food and blankets and Allianz donates €6m

The Guardian - UK

Stirling man's agony as search goes on in bid to find 70 relatives lost in rubble after Turkish earthquake

Ekram Ozturk, who lives with his wife and sons in Buchlyvie, Stirling, has been left worrying as dozens of members of his family remain unaccounted for following the massive earthquake which rocked Turkey and Syria this week.

Daily Record

A look at the impact of delivering aid to Turkey and Syria through Dubai's global hub

A 1.5 million square-ft. zone of Dubai known as International Humanitarian City is the world's largest aid hub, with warehouses for U.N. agencies, Red Cross and Red Crescent organizations and others.

WEKU

'Waiting for our dead': Anger builds at Turkey's quake response

Gaziantep (Turkey) (AFP) - With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.

AFP

Syria's Red Crescent ready to deliver aid to opposition-held areas

Syria's Red Crescent is ready to deliver relief aid to all the country's regions including opposition-held areas and is urging the United Nation to facilitate this, its head said on Tuesday.

Reuters

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The Independent UK

Engineers, search dogs sent to Turkey, Syria after quake

Structural engineers, soldiers, paramedics and handlers with trained search dogs are heading to Turkey and Syria to help locate and rescue survivors of Monday's earthquake

Reuters

Migrant wreck off Libya kills eight with scores rescued-Red Crescent

At least eight people died after a boat crammed with scores of African migrants capsized off the Libyan coast, the local Red Crescent organisation said on Wednesday, adding that nearly 100 others had been rescued.

Daily Mirror

Iran earthquake: Over 120 people injured and 200 houses damaged in huge shake

The 5.4-magnitude rumble left some houses in piles of rubble and left interior walls in others cracked apart by the force of the earthquake in Khoi, in Iran's West Azerbaijan province

Asharq Al-Awsat

Int’l Calls to Open Probe into Burnt Bodies Found on Sabratha Shore

International diplomatic missions in Libya issued several calls on Tuesday for an investigation into the recovered 15 bodies, including a number burned, found on and near a boat on the shores of Sabratha. Several humanitarian organizations called on Monday for the immediate rescue of the sinking boat off the coast…

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Reuters

Tunisian fishermen retrieve bodies of eight migrants

Tunisian fishermen recovered on Monday the bodies of eight migrants off the coast of the southern town of Zarzis, whose boat is likely to have sunk at the end of last month, a Red Crescent official said.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisian Fishermen Retrieve Bodies of 8 Migrants

Asharq Al-Awsat

Burnt Bodies Found on Libya Beach

Libyan rescue workers have recovered at least 15 bodies found on the coast in Sabratha including a number burned in a boat and others on the beach, a member of the Red Crescent in the city said on Friday. A security source in Sabratha said the dead people were migrants…

Reuters

Libya authorities find 15 bodies, some burned in boat, on shore

Asharq Al-Awsat

Guantanamo Detainees Chat with their Saudi Families via Video Calls

A number of families of Saudi detainees in Guantanamo managed to communicate with their relatives in August, after the Saudi Red Crescent Authority (SRCA) organized seven video calls. The SRCA said that its initiative to enable the detainees to contact their families was a humanitarian step to help restore family…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Floods Kill at Least 53 in Iran

Rescuers searched for the missing in Iran on Friday after landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains killed at least 53 people, officials said. Mehdi Valipour, head of emergency operations at the Red Crescent Society, told state TV that 16 people were still missing after two days of floods that…

AFP

Iran flooding kills 24 people in two days

Tehran (AFP) - Two days of flooding near the Iranian capital have killed at least 24 people and another 19 are still missing, officials said on Friday.

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