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Thousands of people gathered on Tuesday in Turkey's Hatay region, at 04:17 AM, the exact same hour a devastating earthquake hit the country a year ago, killing more than 53,500 people. Demonstrators chanted "we won't forgive, we won't forget", lit candles and scuffled with police when the latter tried to block a road. Hatay is the worst hit region from a total of 11 affected by last year's earthquake in Turkey. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by his wife and several ministers, visits Saint-Omer in the northern Pas-de-Calais region, which has been devastated by several days of rain, flooding and high water, to offer his support. 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
At the Cilvegozu border crossing between Syria and Turkey, queues of Syrians fleeing the earthquake area pile up behind the checkpoint more than 10 days after the disaster. The February 6 earthquake claimed the lives of more than 38,000 people in southeastern Turkey and nearly 3,700 in neighbouring Syria. IMAGES
Rescuers unload people wounded in a deadly 7.8-magnitude quake from an ambulance into tents at a French-opened field hospital in Adiyaman, Turkey. Last week's tragedy killed nearly 40,000 people across swathes of the southeast of the country and neighbouring northwest Syria, becoming the area's deadliest natural disaster in centuries. IMAGES
Rescuers and volunteers work in large numbers to clear the rubble of a collapsed building in Diyarbakir, Turkey. The death toll from a catastrophic earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria has reached to 33,000, with the United Nations warning that the final number may double. IMAGES
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