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Two Emirati aircrafts deliver relief aid at Bassel Al-Assad International Airport in the coastal city of Jableh in Syria, after a massive earthquake killed and injured thousands in the country and neighbouring Turkey. IMAGES
Fifty six Spanish rescue workers and four search dogs board a military plane in Zaragoza to travel to quake-hit Morocco after receiving a formal request for help from Rabat. The strongest-ever quake to hit Morocco has killed at least 2,012 people and injured over 2,000, many of them critically, according to the latest official figures. IMAGES
Supplies from aid organisations including Doctors Without Borders and World Food Programme arrive in earthquake-hit Gayan district in eastern Afghanistan, after the country's deadliest earthquake in more than two decades killed more than 1,000 and left thousands homeless. IMAGES
USAID chief Samantha Power says that only 10 percent of the aid required by Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray is reaching the region, as humanitarian access remains hobbled by security woes and bureaucratic hurdles. SOUNDBITE
The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
President Emmanuel Macron lands in France's Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia for a crisis visit aimed at defusing tensions after nine days of deadly riots. IMAGES