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Two cats are reunited with their owners after a helicopter-led operation took place to rescue animals trapped inside a tower block in Diyarbakir, Turkey, two weeks after a deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country and neighbouring Syria. Animal lovers in the city protested Wednesday after officials sought to demolish the building. IMAGES
In Antakya, Turkey, a survivor is pulled from the rubble of a collapsed building by a group of rescue workers, on the 8th day after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region. The toll from the Turkey-Syria has risen above 35,000, as rescue teams have started to wind down the search for survivors. 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
Rescue workers move debris as they search for earthquake survivors in Diyarbakir, Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has admitted for the first that his government's search and rescue effort from this week's devastating earthquake was not going as quickly as hoped. IMAGES
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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