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  Turkey finds new survivors as quake death toll    exceeds 43,000  Even as the window for finding people alive shrank, rescuers withdrew several survivors from under the rubble. People line-up for free food served amid the rubble following the deadly earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey. Turkish interior minister Suleyman Soylu has refurbished the death toll in Turkey to 39,672, bringing the overall number of earthquake fatalities in both Turkey and Syria to 43,360.  Friday’s figure is certain to increase as search teams reclaim more bodies within the devastation transmmitted by the powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake — the deadliest disaster in Turkey’s modern history. Even as the window for finding people alive shrank, rescuers reclaimed a survivor from the rubble of a collapsed building in the district of Defne, in hard-hit Hatay province, more than 11 days after the powerful earthquake struck. Hakan Yasinoğlu, 45, spent 278 hours beneath the rubble, according ...

H appy valentine day, season of love.  Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day's is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. Valentine day is a special day which set apart and which people tagged to romantic afares for couples and couples, in fact most of the youth see it as the opportunity to make love with there girlfriend or boyfriend, there alot of ways love can be demonstrated: gifting of gift and worm wishes on Val day is part of it. There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. Numerous later addi...

  A new-born baby and his mother have been rescued from rubble in Turkey, around 90 hours after the first of Monday's deadly earthquakes. The 10-day-old boy, named Yagiz, was retrieved from a ruined structure in the southern Hatay province. Footage showed the child being carefully successfully taken out overnight - a sight described by local media as miraculous. Hopes of finding many more survivors are slim, amid freezing-cold weather four days after the disaster. However, search and safe efforts continue in both Turkey and neighbouring Syria - which was struck by the quakes as well. New-born Yagiz was pictured wrapped in a thermal blanket being carried to an ambulance to receive treatment. His mother was brought out on a stretcher. There were no further updates immediately available over the health of both. Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu - whose teams were reportedly involved in the rescue - tweeted about the rescue, saying it happened in the town of Samandag. Footage obtained by ...