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Volunteers and rescue personnel search for survivors in a collapsed building in Izmir after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greec, as the death toll of the powerful magnitude earthquake rose to 49. IMAGES
Rescue workers in Turkey's Izmir look for survivors in a pile of rubble following a deadly 7.0 earthquake which rocked the region. Much of the damage occurred in and around the Turkish Aegean resort city, which has three million residents and is filled with high-rise apartment blocks. IMAGES
In Hualien, relief tents are set up to provide shelter to residents after the most powerful earthquake in 25 years hit Taiwan, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 1,000. Strict building regulations and widespread public disaster awareness appear to have staved off a major catastrophe for the earthquake-prone island, which lies near the junction of two tectonic plates. IMAGES
Emergency workers use heavy machinery in the eastern Taiwan city of Hualien after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area on Wednesday morning. At least nine people died in the quake -- all in Hualien county -- and more than 1,000 were injured across the country. The earthquake is the strongest to hit Taiwan in 25 years. IMAGES
British Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and his Polish counterpart Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz visit NATO troops stationed in the northeastern Polish town of Orzysz. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and his new Education Minister, Amelie Oudea-Castera, visit the Saint-Exupery d'Andresy secondary school in the Yvelines near Paris, as part of the 'knowledge shock', a wide-ranging package of reforms aimed at raising students' academic standards. IMAGES