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Anger mounts over slow aid
Al-Jazeera
- The death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquakes has crossed 41,000.
- Turkish authorities say 35,418 people have been killed in the country. Syrian government, UN say more than 5,800 people dead in Syria.
- Aid has begun trickling in to northwestern Syria, nine days after the quakes, with a UN convoy carrying humanitarian assistance passing through the Bab al-Salam crossing from Turkey.
- The WHO is describing the earthquakes in Turkey as the worst natural disaster in a century in what it characterises as its Europe region.
- The UN is appealing for $397m in aid to help five million Syrian survivors with shelter, healthcare and food.
Al-Jazeera