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Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa (top, centre) addresses the first session of Syria's People's Assembly earlier this month (Picture: Omar Albam)

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Mercy Corps is working with people in Syria during the worst economic crisis since the war began.

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An aerial view shows medics at the Maram camp, for the internally displaced, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Tuesday, during a vaccination campaign. Syrian medics launched the first cholera vaccination campaign in the rebel-held northwest since a deadly outbreak began last year, amid increased fears of contagion after last month's devastating earthquake. Health workers were going door to door to inoculate people in homes and displacement camps in the Idlib region, the war-torn country's last main rebel bastion.

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A mother spends time with her children in a park provided by an aid organisation in earthquake-hit Syria.

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Doctor Paul Hughes from FVRH who is helping relief effort in Turkey. Pic: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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An excavator digs at the site of collapsed building to remove the debris on February 16, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey. (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)

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Men walk down a street amid rubble from destroyed buildings on February 20, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey

Two new earthquakes hit Turkey killing three people and injuring 200

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

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An aerial view of work machines and diggers at the site of collapsed buildings on February 16, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey

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An aerial photo shows collapsed buildings in Antakya. Picture: Hassan Ayadi/AFP via Getty Images

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Turkish police officers patrol carry out search operations among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras on February 12, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast earlier in the week. Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images

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A powerful earthquake hit a wide area in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, killing more than 20,000 people and trapping many others. Picture: Efekan Akyuz/Depo Photos via ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

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For many, mourning their loved ones will need to wait. Devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria have killed thousands. But for survivors, this disaster is fa...

Bulldozers work among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Adiyaman, Turkey three days after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey (Photo by ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP via Getty Images)

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Rescuers carry a victim retrieved from the rubble of a collapsed building, in the regime-controlled town of Jableh in the province of Latakia, northwest of the Syrian capital Damascus.

More than five million Syrians forced out of home by earthquake

People sit near a bonfire amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, two days after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey.

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Survivors gather next to a bonfire outside collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras on February 8, 2023, after their homes were destroyed in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on February 6. The sprawling scale of the disaster that flattened thousands of buildings, trapping an unknown number of people, has swamped relief operations already hampered by freezing weather. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP) (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)

British rescue crew joins search operation in Türkiye as death toll nears 16,000

Azerbaijanis collect humanitarian aid to help those affected by Monday's massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria

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Rescue workers carry an earthquake survivor amid the ruins of collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey (Picture: Burak Kara/Getty Images)

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The earthquake has killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria (Photo: Getty)

Turkey-Syria earthquake: death-toll said to be at least 8,700

A man walks past a collapsed building in the town of Jbaleh in Syria's northwestern province of Latakia following the earthquake.

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A woman waits for news of her loved ones, believed to be trapped under a collapsed building in Iskenderun, Turkey. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, in the early hours of Monday, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor just after midday.

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A man walks past a collapsed building in the town of Jbaleh in Syria's northwestern province of Latakia following the earthquake.

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Earthquake survivors sit around a fire in Iskenderun Turkey

WHO say Turkey and Syria earthquake deaths could be 20,000

Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a collasped building, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. - The combined death toll has risen to over 2,300 for Turkey and Syria after the region's strongest quake in nearly a century. Turkey's emergency services said at least 1,121 people died in the earthquake, with another 783 confirmed fatalities in Syria. (Photo by REMI BANET / AFP) (Photo by REMI BANET/AFP via Getty Images)

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