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Top diplomats from more than 50 countries have arrived in North Macedonia for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Turkey’s central bank has delivered another huge interest rate hike as it tries to curb double-digit inflation that has left households struggling to afford food and other basic goods.

Highs Thanksgiving Day will be in the upper 60s to around 70 north of Orlando. For the Orlando area and south, it will be in the low-to-mid 70s.

Turkey's president has backpedaled after siding with a top appeals court that defied a Constitutional Court ruling calling for the release of an imprisoned opposition lawmaker.

A watchdog group advocating for press freedom has said that the strikes that hit a group of journalists in southern Lebanon earlier this month, killing one, were targeted rather than accidental and that the journalists were clearly identified as press.

Gavi’s winning goal for Spain against Norway in a European Championship qualifier will likely have been cheered as wildly in Glasgow as it was in Madrid.

The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he's considering policy changes toward Egypt, Turkey and other countries as he took over the powerful leadership of the panel.

Rescue teams in Europe are frustrated that Morocco did not throw open its doors to more outside assistance after last week's deadly earthquake.

A major rescue operation in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains has brought out an American researcher who fell seriously ill nine days ago, about 3,000 feet from the entrance of one of world’s deepest caves.

The Speleological Federation of Turkey says rescuers have pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave more than a week after he became seriously ill 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance.

An official from Turkey’s disaster management agency says that rescue teams have begun the arduous process of extricating an American researcher who became seriously ill while he was 3,000 feet below the entrance of a cave in Turkey.

The earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday has killed more than 2,100 people and the toll is expected to increase as rescuers reach hard-hit remote mountain areas.

Turkish officials say rescue crews are waiting for doctors to give the go-ahead for an operation to move out an American researcher who fell ill almost 1,000 meters — more than 3,000 feet — below the entrance of a cave.

Widespread flooding in central Greece has left at least six people dead and six missing, with severe rainstorms turning streams into raging torrents, bursting dams, washing away roads and bridges, and hurling cars into the sea.

A headless bronze statue believed to depict the Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius has been ordered seized from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Advancing flames are devouring forests and homes as dozens of wildfires rage across Greece, leaving 20 people dead over the past three days.

Turkey’s foreign minister has accused the United Nations of abandoning a position of neutrality in Cyprus.

Greek authorities have evacuated five more villages near the northeastern border with Turkey where a large summer wildfire is raging for a second day.

The United Nations says the agreement it reached with Syria to reopen the main border crossing from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest for six months safeguards the independence of U.N. operations and allows it to provide aid to all parties.

The United Nations has announced that an agreement has been reached with Syria to reopen the main border crossing from Turkey to its rebel-held northwest for six months.

The head of a leading aid group says an impasse at the United Nations over a border crossing with Syria’s last rebel-held enclave is endangering 4.1 million Syrians living there.

The United Nations agency responsible for overseeing humanitarian aid has described conditions placed by the Syrian government on aid deliveries from Turkey to northwest Syria as “unacceptable.”.

The United Nations Security Council's failure to renew the critical flow of international aid from Turkey into opposition-held northwestern Syria has rattled Syrians and social workers.

The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions authorizing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey, officially ending the U.N. cross-border operation which had been vital to helping 4.1 million people.

The delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey is virtually certain to get a green light to continue from the U.N. Security Council.

Greece’s newly-appointed foreign minister says his country is ready to start talks with Turkey to resolve a long-standing dispute over maritime borders that has repeatedly brought the two neighbors to the brink of armed conflict.

A convoy carrying U.N. aid has entered Syria's last rebel-held enclave from government-held territory, the first such shipment to cross battle lines since February's deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria.

Aid agencies will struggle to draw the world’s attention back to Syria at an annual donor conference hosted by the European Union in Brussels for humanitarian aid to Syrians.

An official says an explosion at a rocket and explosives plant in Turkey caused a building to collapse, killing all five workers inside.

NATO is ramping up pressure on its member Turkey to drop its objections to Sweden's membership.

The trial has begun of 36 people accused of a deadly bombing in central Istanbul last November, in which six people were killed and 99 injured, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported.

Turkey's Justice Minister says 13 people have been detained over violence which broke out at an opposition rally over the weekend.

Italy has returned to Turkish authorities a funerary stele dating from ancient Roman times because investigation determined that the artifact was illegally excavated from southeastern Turkey.

Greece’s prime minister has promised to extend a wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Finland will officially join the military alliance on Tuesday.

Hungary’s parliament has approved Finland’s bid to join NATO, ending months of delays and bringing the Nordic country one step closer to becoming a full member of the Western military alliance.

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The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins at sundown.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish political party and its allies say they won’t field a candidate to run in the country’s May 14 presidential election.

Qatar says it has sent 4,000 cabins built to house fans at last year’s World Cup to earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria.

A six-party alliance has nominated the leader of Turkey's main opposition party as its common candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections in May, ending months of uncertainty and bickering that had frustrated their supporters.

Hungary is further delaying a vote on ratifying Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession bids.

Turkey's justice minister says investigations have been launched against more than 600 people in relation to buildings that collapsed in the country's catastrophic earthquake earlier this month.

Nearly one million people applied for international protection in the European Union in 2022, the most since the refugee crisis of 2015-2016.

A new 6.4-magnitude earthquake has killed three people and injured more than 200 others in parts of Turkey laid waste two weeks ago by a massive quake that killed tens of thousands.

A United Nations official says the death toll from the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake is likely to rise as teams scramble to remove rubble in hard-hit areas.

A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline.

The United Nations chief has launched a $397 million appeal to help nearly 5 million survivors of last week’s devastating earthquake in rebel-held northwest Syria who have received very little assistance.

A Syrian hospital official says gunmen stormed the clinic where a baby girl is receiving care after being born under her earthquake-shattered home.

The United Nations says Syria’s president has agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment for millions of earthquake victims.

The baby girl born under the rubble of her family's home in northern Syria in the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake is in good health and being breast-fed by the wife of the director of the hospital where she is being cared for, her doctor says.

A week later, the scenes haven’t gotten any less heartbreaking.

The founder of a Brevard County humanitarian group is starting his journey to the earthquake zone of Turkey.

Loved ones of an Orlando couple are mourning their loss following a devastating earthquake that left more than 20,000 dead in Turkey and Syria.

What’s left behind after a natural disaster so powerful that it rends the foundations of a society.

Central Floridians from Syria and Turkey are doing what they can from afar to support their families back home, many also receiving more devastating news each day as the death toll climbs.

As hours have turned to days after Turkey's deadly earthquake, rescues are becoming rarer.

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Dozens of Afghans have rushed to the Kabul airport following a rumor that an airlift operation was flying people to Turkey to help with the deadly earthquake rescue.

A devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria has raised questions about how long people can survive in the rubble.

Zeliha Hisir tried to speak, but could barely move after her hourslong rescue Tuesday near the epicenter of Turkey’s earthquake.

The medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders says a staff member has been found dead under the rubble of his house in Syria’s Idlib province following the powerful earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey.

The Turkish community of Central Florida is mourning after a 7.8 earthquake struck Turkey and northern Syria and a second 7.5 earthquake hit the eastern region, leaving thousands dead and injured.

Many governments have rushed to dispatch aid, personnel and equipment to help the rescue efforts in quake-stricken areas of Turkey and Syria.

A major 7.8 magnitude earthquake centered in Turkey has caused widespread damage across the region.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has denounced activists who burned the Quran and hanged an effigy of Turkey’s president in Stockholm as “useful idiots” for foreign powers who want to inflict harm on the Scandinavian country as it seeks to join NATO.

Annual inflation in Turkey has eased slightly in November for the first time in more than a year, but remains close to 24-year highs.

CIA Director Bill Burns has met with his Russian intelligence counterpart to warn of consequences if Russia were to deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

Russia has suspended its part of the deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain from its Black Sea ports safely amid a monthslong war, saying it was not going to allow ships to travel.

Serbia is seeing a sudden tourism boom from countries whose citizens never had its sightseeing and shopping opportunities on their radar.

Greece has launched operations at a new international pilot training center created in partnership with Israel, as it tries to build on a relative air power advantage over regional rival Turkey.

Turkey’s main opposition party is seeking the suspension of the enforcement of a newly-approved media law that mandates prison terms for disinformation.

European Union lawmakers have refused to endorse the way the EU’s border and coast guard agency used its 2020 budget.

Turkish officials say an explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey has killed at least 25 people and dozens remain trapped underground.

Greece’s defense minister says his country has the right to take “all defensive measures” to protect its easternmost islands amid threats by neighboring Turkey that dispute Greek sovereignty rights and raise the specter of war.

Greece's migration minister says refugees recognized by individual EU nations should be allowed to live anywhere in the bloc.

Ukraine has completed a high-profile prisoner swap that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in the port of Mariupol during a months-long Russian siege.

A flare-up in fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan has killed 155 troops on both sides since early Tuesday.

Greece’s prime minister says he cannot imagine that tensions with neighboring NATO ally Turkey could ever escalate into armed conflict.

Ukraine’s president says tons of grain from his country will arrive in the coming weeks in Somalia, where famine approaches and the global crises of food security and climate change put millions at risk.

Barcelona faces another tough Champions League group after being drawn with Bayern Munich and Inter Milan as it tries to avoid a second straight group-stage exit since losing Lionel Messi.

Officials in southern Turkey say at least 15 people were killed when a passenger bus collided with emergency teams handling an earlier road accident.

Shipping companies aren't rushing to export millions of tons of trapped grain out of Ukraine, despite a breakthrough deal to provide safe corridors through the Black Sea.

Business leaders and officials from eight developing nations meeting in Bangladesh say more cooperation is needed among them to overcome dwindling foreign currency reserves, a growing energy crisis and supply chain disruptions.

Firefighters from Portugal and Spain to southern France and Croatia are battling a spate of wildfires scorching Europe amid an unusual heat wave that authorities link to climate change.

The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution extending humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million people in Syria’s rebel-held northwest for just 6 months in a victory for Russia.

The U.N. Security Council has failed to extend humanitarian aid deliveries to 4.1 million Syrians in the rebel-held northwest from Turkey after Russia vetoed a resolution for a year-long extension and got insufficient support for its resolution for a six-month extension.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that a wind-stoked wildfire that has been raging near a popular resort in southwestern Turkey has been “largely” brought under control.

Authorities in Turkey say heavy rains in the capital led to flooding that killed one person in the capital Ankara.

The World Bank has sharply downgraded its outlook for the global economy, pointing to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the prospect of widespread food shortages and concerns about the potential return of “stagflation” — a toxic mix of high inflation and sluggish growth unseen for more than four decades.

Ukraine’s president says Russian forces intend to capture Zaporizhzhia, a large city in the country’s southeast.

An international rights group says that Bulgarian authorities are attacking Afghan and other asylum-seekers, using police dogs and other violence to illegally push them back over the border into Turkey.

Ukrainian singer and former Eurovision song contest winner appealed to Turkey’s president to save Ukrainian fighters from the besieged city of Mariupol.

French judges have opened an investigation into torture allegations against Interpol president Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi of the United Arab Emirates.

Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot activists say uncertainty over the safety of war-wracked Ukraine’s nuclear power plants has reignited concerns over a Russian-owned nuclear power station being built in a quake-prone area on Turkey’s southern coast.

President Joe Biden is commemorating the 107th anniversary of the start of what he calls “the Armenian genocide.”.

The U.S. and its allies are moving to prohibit financial transactions with Russia's Central Bank that involve Russian gold.

Riot police set up barricades and fired pepper gas to block demonstrators from joining an International Women’s Day march in central Istanbul.

Sanctions on Russia are starting to wreak havoc on global trade, with potentially devastating consequences for energy and grain importers while also generating ripple effects across a world still struggling to overcome pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions.

Israel’s president says any bid to improve strained ties between his country and Turkey won’t come at the expense of its “strategic relationship” with neighboring Cyprus.