MASSIVE EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY ROCK MIDDLE EAST
Rescue workers are pouring into Southern Turkey from around the Mideast Region after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Sunday was followed by powerful aftershocks on Monday morning, killing at least 1,760 people in southern Turkey and over 1,000 people in Northern Syria, with some experts predicting that the death toll could balloon to over 15,000 in the coming days.
BLOCKADED ARMENIANS IN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
The “eco-activist” blockade of the Lachin Corridor, a vital artery into the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, entered its fourth week last Thursday, leaving 120,000 ethnic Armenians in the breakaway region with a scarcity of food and medicine, even as winter temperatures fell to -10 degrees Celsius (14 Fahrenheit) over the weekend.