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A Qatari convoy with supplies for quake-hit northwest Syria arrives at Bab al-Hawa border crossing via Turkey. IMAGES
Syria will grant the United Nations permission to use a key crossing to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians in rebel-held northwest Syria for a period of six months, Bassam Sabbagh, Syrian ambassador to the UN, tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Syria made an official plea to the EU for help after the deadly earthquake that struck it and Turkey this week, according to the bloc's commissioner for crisis management Janez Lenarcic. Officials and medics said Wednesday that 8,574 people had died in Turkey and 2,662 in Syria from the 7.8 magnitude tremor, bringing the total to 11,236. SOUNDBITE
Bureaucracy and infrastructure are preventing adequate relief goods from getting to quake survivors in remote areas of Nepal, officials say. Jillian Kitchener reports.
The WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says from Damascus that President Bashar al-Assad has voiced openness to more border crossings for aid to be brought to quake victims in rebel-held northwestern Syria. SOUNDBITE
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