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Video footage released by Iranian state media purportedly shows rockets launched at Ain al-Asad airbase, a US military installation in Iraq. The attack on the base in the country's west, where US and coalition forces are based, comes after pro-Tehran factions in Iraq vowed to "respond" to a US drone strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani last week. IMAGES
A Turkish vessel carrying materials for field hospitals arrives in Egypt's port of El Arish near the Rafah border crossing with the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, a port official said. A Turkish health official told AFP that the vessel was carrying "materials, generators, ambulances to establish eight field hospitals". The delivery comes as Hamas government officials said all hospitals in northern Gaza were "out of service" amid fighting with Israeli forces. IMAGES
Helicopters land in Antakya, a large city in Turkey's Hatay province, to distribute relief aid to victims of a massive earthquake that killed more than 16,000 people in Turkey and neighbouring Syria. IMAGES
Elle magazine is reporting that Netflix has cancelled the Hillary Swank space drama "Away." In the series, Swank plays the conflicted Commander Emma Green. She leads the first-ever human mission to Mars, leaving behind her family. "Away" is not the only show Netflix cancelled recently. It also axed "GLOW" and "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." The show was expensive and intricate to produce, as space sequences took days to plot and choreograph.