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Powerful quake hits eastern Turkey. Thousands are feared killed

Death toll reaches 200 and is set to rise as rescue teams battle to pull survivors out of rubble.

As many as 1,000 people were feared killed on Sunday when a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey filling the air with cries of panic and horror. The quake measured 7.2 magnitude on Richter scale and struck the city of Van and neighboring towns in the area close to the Iranian border.

Gaddafi is dead. Libya’s new dawn or another civil war?

A new dawn awaits the Libyan people now that Col Gaddafi is gone and they can work on building a democratic state. But will they be able to?

by Alfred Kola

Ship collision off Albanian coast. 3 dead and 5 missing reported

by Alfred Kola

A Malta-flagged, Turkish owned cargo ship sank off the coast of Albania early Thursday, after it collided with a passenger ferry, some 20 miles off the coast of Albania. 3 crew members of the cargo ship are reported dead and five are missing.

Two sailors have been rescued so far, but the prospects of finding other survivors are bleak – port officials told News24, an Albanian news television.