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Earthquake in Turkey and Syria: News Updates

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China’s Top Airship Scientist Promoted Program to Watch the World from Above

In 2019, years before a hulking high-altitude Chinese balloon floated across the United States and caused widespread alarm, one of China’s top aeronautics scientists made a proud announcement that received little attention back then: His team had launched an airship more than 60,000 feet into the air and sent it sailing around most of the globe, including across North America.

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Turkey-Syria Quake: Death Toll Surpasses 21,000

Only a trickle of humanitarian aid has reached the devastated parts of Syria so far because 12 years of civil war have left the country carved up into different zones of control that impede relief deliveries.

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Chinese Balloon Had Tools to Collect Communications Signals, U.S. Says

WASHINGTON — The Chinese spy balloon shot down by the U.S. military over the Atlantic Ocean was capable of collecting communications signals and was part of a fleet of surveillance balloons directed by the Chinese military that had flown over more than 40 countries across five continents, the State Department said Thursday.

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Turkey-Syria Earthquake Updates: Erdogan Visits Near Epicenter as Death Toll Passes 11,000

Two days after a devastating earthquake killed over 11,100 people in Turkey and Syria and left many more injured and homeless, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey made his first visit to the disaster-stricken zone on Wednesday to tell his people how much his government had done to help and how much more aid was on the way.

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Turkey-Syria Earthquake Kills More Than 5,100: Live Updates

ISTANBUL — Thousands of rescue workers were digging through debris in freezing conditions on Tuesday in a desperate search for survivors after an earthquake that has left at least 5,100 people dead in Turkey and Syria, a devastating toll that continued to rise.

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Earthquake Kills At Least 2,100 in Turkey and Syria: Live News Updates

GAZIANTEP, Turkey — At least 2,100 people have been killed in Turkey and Syria, where a powerful earthquake on Monday collapsed thousands of buildings and raised the specter of a new humanitarian disaster in a region already wracked by war, a refugee crisis and deep economic troubles.

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E.U. Leaders Meet With Zelensky in Ukraine: Live Updates

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders visiting Kyiv on Friday were expected to offer symbolic support in its battle against Russia, without creating false hope over Ukraine’s bid to join the bloc.

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Russia Strikes Kramatorsk Amid Warnings of New Offensive in Eastern Ukraine: Live Updates

Casting his war in Ukraine as a virtuous fight despite mounting deaths and his forces’ slow progress, President Vladimir V. Putin vowed on Thursday that Russia would prevail, using a speech in the city formerly known as Stalingrad to compare his invasion with the Soviets’ defeat of the Nazis in a decisive World War II battle.