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HATAY, Turkey/DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – The screams of people still trapped in the rubble filled the night  yesterday and relatives wept for their loved ones as the death toll in Turkey and in neighbouring northwest Syria rose to more than 3,700.

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russia was pouring reinforcements into eastern Ukraine ahead of a new offensive that could begin next week along a front where there have been relentless battles for months, a Ukrainian governor said.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance service staff walked off the job yesterday in a pay dispute, putting further strain on Britain’s state-run National Health Service with their largest ever strike.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Boeing Co BA.N expects to cut about 2,000 white-collar jobs this year in finance and human resources through a combination of attrition and layoffs, the U.S.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – China apologized to Costa Rica for a balloon that flew over its territory, the Central American country’s government said on Monday, after a separate suspected Chinese spy balloon traveling over the United States sparked a major political and diplomatic spat.

ADANA, Turkey/DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – More than 1,300 people were killed and thousands injured today when an earthquake struck central Turkey and northwest Syria, collapsing apartment blocks and heaping more destruction on Syrian cities already devastated by years of war.

 (Reuters) – Dell Technologies Inc DELL.N is cutting about 6,650 jobs, or 5% of its global workforce, as it struggles with a slump in the personal computer market and braces for a potential recession.

WASHINGTON  (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department will participate in a review of the Memphis Police Department after the death of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man fatally beaten by officers in the Tennessee city last month, according to city officials.

ISLAMABAD/DUBAI (Reuters) – Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Firefighters were battling dozens of raging wildfires in Chile on Sunday, seeking to gain control over one of the country’s worst natural disasters in years as the death toll rose to at least 24 with nearly 1,000 more injured.

DUBAI  (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader has pardoned “tens of thousands” of prisoners including some arrested in recent anti-government protests, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, after a deadly state crackdown helped quell the nationwide unrest.

(Reuters) – The Canadian government said on Sunday it deployed a military aircraft over Haiti to address what it called a “dire security situation” and to support efforts to disrupt the activities of Haitian gangs.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis said today that laws criminalising LGBT people are a sin and an injustice because God loves and accompanies people with same-sex attraction.

(Reuters) – A day before a U.S. military jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the country’s Atlantic Coast on Saturday, Colombia’s military confirmed a sighting of an airborne object similar to a balloon flying over its territory.

ISLAMABAD/DUBAI, (Reuters) – Pakistani former President Pervez Musharraf died today following a prolonged illness at a hospital in Dubai, after years in self-imposed exile.

SURFSIDE BEACH, S.C.,  (Reuters) – A U.S. military fighter jet shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina yesterday, a week after it first entered U.S.

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday that the situation on the front lines in the east of the country was getting tougher and Russia was throwing more and more troops into battle.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off its northeast coast, the Brazilian Navy said, despite warnings from environmentalists that the rusting 1960s French-built ship would pollute the sea and the marine food chain.

GRAYSON, Calif., (Reuters) – When devastating floods swept California last month, the community of Grayson – a town of 1,300 people tucked between almond orchards and dairy farms where the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers converge – survived without major damage.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. military fighter aircraft shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon as it floated off the coast of South Carolina today, drawing to a close a dramatic saga that shone a spotlight on worsening Sino-U.S.