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An earthquake measuring 7.8 magnitude struck parts of the two countries at around 4am on February 6.

Freemasons around the UK have sent £60,000 to help aid workers in Syria and Turkey.

Around 23m lives – including those of 1.4m children – blighted by the disaster, says the World Health Organisation

The United Nations children's agency said on Tuesday that the earthquake and aftershocks that destroyed scores of buildings in Turkey and Syria may have killed thousands of children.

The school joins a list of only around 600 schools across the country which are deemed gold status by UNICEF

More than one million Haitian children are under constant threat of violence in the area of the capital Port-au-Prince because of chronic lawlessness, the regional director of children's agency UNICEF said on Friday.

Most of the women who should be playing cricket for Afghanistan have resettled in Australia since the Taliban took over the country, but they are disappointed by a lack of support from the International Cricket Council.

Sandra Baldwin has been involved in helping administer foreign aid in some of the most pressing global disaster scenarios of the last decade and she is now set to use her expertise in Pakistan.

A strong majority of the UN Security Council urged Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers Friday to immediately reverse all “oppressive” restrictions on girls and women including the latest ban on women working for aid organizations which is exacerbating the already critical humanitarian crisis in the country. The joint statement from 11 of…