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King Charles III meeting First Minister Humza Yousaf as they visit Heriot-Watt University Dubai Campus during the COP28 summit. Picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Which world leaders are due to speak at COP28?

Palestinians look for survivors after the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip in Deir Al-Balah. Picture: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa

US launches airstrikes on eastern Syria as Israel conducts targeted raids

Shadow International Development Secretary Lisa Nandy. Image: Press Association.

Lisa Nandy refuses to say if international law breached

The Matterhorn is regarded as a Swiss national symbol - despite being half-Italian (image: Getty Images)

These are the 25 Freest nations according to the Human Freedom Index

Guillaume Vermette working with Syrian refugee children.

Scots charity commissions French-Canadian clown to help children in Ukraine

DEC Chief Executive Saleh Saeed meets Zeynep and Mehmet's family who have received cash payments through the British Red Cross as he visits the earthquake response near Gaziantep, Turkey in July.

Earthquake six months on: 'If I had gone home, would I have perished?'

Mercy Corps is working with people in Syria during the worst economic crisis since the war began.

Syria facing worst economic crisis since start of civil war

Pope Francis waves from the popemobile car as he makes a tour of St. Peter's square following the Easter Sunday mass. Picture: Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images

Pray for Ukrainian and Russian people and refugees, urges Pope

Yaqeen Sikander said a lot of people in the region are suffering "survivor's guilt" after losing loved ones in the disaster.

‘I met a man who lost 229 family members’

An aerial view shows medics at the Maram camp, for the internally displaced, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on Tuesday, during a vaccination campaign. Syrian medics launched the first cholera vaccination campaign in the rebel-held northwest since a deadly outbreak began last year, amid increased fears of contagion after last month's devastating earthquake. Health workers were going door to door to inoculate people in homes and displacement camps in the Idlib region, the war-torn country's last main rebel bastion.

Aid worker warns of ‘tragic and stark reality’ for earthquake-hit Syria

A mother spends time with her children in a park provided by an aid organisation in earthquake-hit Syria.

‘No toys, no games, no schooling’: Life in earthquake-hit Syria

Doctor Paul Hughes from FVRH who is helping relief effort in Turkey. Pic: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

FVRH doctor helps victims of Turkey earthquake

An excavator digs at the site of collapsed building to remove the debris on February 16, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey. (Photo by Burak Kara/Getty Images)

Another earthquake hits Turkey as buildings collapse after magnitude 5.6 quake

Shamima Begum. Picture: BBC

Why the UK Government response to the actions of Shamima Begum is shameful

Shamima Begum. (Photo by Laura Lean - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Shamima Begum: ISIS bride loses legal case to return to UK

Men walk down a street amid rubble from destroyed buildings on February 20, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey

Two new earthquakes hit Turkey killing three people and injuring 200

A new 6.4 magnitude earthquake has killed three people and injured more than 200 in parts of Turkey that were laid waste two weeks ago by a massive tremor that killed tens of thousands. Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Deadly new quakes trap people under rubble in Turkey

An aerial view of work machines and diggers at the site of collapsed buildings on February 16, 2023 in Hatay, Turkey

Capital FM: Ofcom complaints over Turkey-Syria earthquake ‘joke’

Spain, France and Turkey travel  update by Foreign Office

An aerial photo shows collapsed buildings in Antakya. Picture: Hassan Ayadi/AFP via Getty Images

Four-year-old girl pulled alive from earthquake rubble as time almost exhausted

Turkish police officers patrol carry out search operations among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras on February 12, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast earlier in the week. Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images

Turkey arrests building contractors six days after earthquakes

A powerful earthquake hit a wide area in south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, killing more than 20,000 people and trapping many others. Picture: Efekan Akyuz/Depo Photos via ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Those who escaped earthquake with their lives did so with little else

Bulldozers work among the rubble of collapsed buildings in Adiyaman, Turkey three days after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey (Photo by ILYAS AKENGIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey earthquake: DEC appeal nets £50m in two days

Rescuers carry a victim retrieved from the rubble of a collapsed building, in the regime-controlled town of Jableh in the province of Latakia, northwest of the Syrian capital Damascus.

More than five million Syrians forced out of home by earthquake

People sit near a bonfire amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras, two days after a 7,8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey.

How to donate to Turkey earthquake appeal from Scotland

Survivors gather next to a bonfire outside collapsed buildings in Kahramanmaras on February 8, 2023, after their homes were destroyed in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck the border region of Turkey and Syria on February 6. The sprawling scale of the disaster that flattened thousands of buildings, trapping an unknown number of people, has swamped relief operations already hampered by freezing weather. (Photo by Adem ALTAN / AFP) (Photo by ADEM ALTAN/AFP via Getty Images)

British rescue crew joins search operation in Türkiye as death toll nears 16,000

Azerbaijanis collect humanitarian aid to help those affected by Monday's massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria

Turkey Syria earthquake: death toll passes 15,000

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Love Island winner Ekin-Su wants to help in Turkey relief effor

Rescue workers carry an earthquake survivor amid the ruins of collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey (Picture: Burak Kara/Getty Images)

Earthquake devastation requires a global response and we can all do something

The earthquake has killed thousands of people in Turkey and Syria (Photo: Getty)

Turkey-Syria earthquake: death-toll said to be at least 8,700

A man walks past a collapsed building in the town of Jbaleh in Syria's northwestern province of Latakia following the earthquake.

Three British nationals missing in Türkiye earthquake

A woman waits for news of her loved ones, believed to be trapped under a collapsed building in Iskenderun, Turkey. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit near Gaziantep, Turkey, in the early hours of Monday, followed by another 7.5-magnitude tremor just after midday.

Turkey earthquake: Where is Türkiye? Is Türkiye the same as Turkey?

A man walks past a collapsed building in the town of Jbaleh in Syria's northwestern province of Latakia following the earthquake.

How you can help victims affected by the Turkey and Syria earthquake

Three Brits confirmed missing after Turkey and Syria earthquake

Earthquake survivors sit around a fire in Iskenderun Turkey

WHO say Turkey and Syria earthquake deaths could be 20,000

Rescue workers and volunteers search for survivors in the rubble of a collasped building, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on February 6, 2023, after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's south-east. - The combined death toll has risen to over 2,300 for Turkey and Syria after the region's strongest quake in nearly a century. Turkey's emergency services said at least 1,121 people died in the earthquake, with another 783 confirmed fatalities in Syria. (Photo by REMI BANET / AFP) (Photo by REMI BANET/AFP via Getty Images)

How common are quakes and tsunamis in Europe?

White Helmet Syrian rescue workers use an excavator to search amidst the rubble of collapsed building on February 6, 2022 in the town of Sarmada, in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province, as a search operation continues following a deadly earthquake. - At least 1,400 people were killed and 3,411 injured across Syria today in an earthquake that had its epicentre in southwestern Turkey, the government and rescuers said. (Photo by AAREF WATAD / AFP) (Photo by AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkey Syria earthquake: Rescuers search for survivors after quake kills 4,800

Rescuers search for victims of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Diyarbakir, in southeastern Turkey, levelling buildings across several cities and causing damages in neighbouring Syria. (Photo by Mahmut BOZARSLAN / AFPTV / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUT BOZARSLAN/AFPTV/AFP via Getty Images)

Death toll rises following 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria

More than 1,200 people have been killed as an earthquake hit Turkey and Syria (Photo: Getty Images)

Turkey and Syria earthquake kills more than 1200 and injures over 3000

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A man carries a young bombing casualty to safety after a reported air strike by Syrian regime forces or their allies on the jihadist-held town of Maaret Al-Noman in 2019 (Picture: Abdulaziz Ketaz/AFP via Getty Images)

Syria conflict shows UK must do more to reduce civilian casualties of war

Security and ambulances at the scene after an explosion on Istanbul's popular pedestrian Istiklal Avenue. Picture: AP Photo/Francisco Seco

Six people killed in Istanbul explosion

Glenbervie food manufacturer partners with Scottish Refugee Council

Suella Braverman, Secretary of State for the Home Department attends day three of the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

Ban on asylum request for ‘illegal’ migrants ‘risks breaking international law’

Shamima Begum.

Shamima Begum 'was taken into Syria by people smuggler who was Canadian spy'

The Proclaimers are asking you to Move for Meals to help Mary’s Meals feed hungry children in some of the world’s poorest countries. (Pic:Chris Watt Photography)

The Proclaimers set walking challenge for Aberdeenshire residents

The Proclaimers are asking you to Move for Meals to help Mary’s Meals feed hungry children in some of the world’s poorest countries.

The Proclaimers urge Scots to take on walking challenge for charity

A barber, an internally displaced person who fled clashes between M23 rebels and Congolese soldiers, gives a haircut to another refugee in Kanyarushinya north of Goma in DRC.

'Don't forget about Africa' UNHCR pleads, as it warns of refugee funding crisis

Syrian children take lessons in a makeshift school tent in a refugee camp in Turkey in 2015.

Teaching refuges in their own schools ‘gives them hope they will return'

Local people walk in front of flats that were hit by Russian shells in the city of Chernihiv on March 3. Forty-seven people were killed (Picture: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images)

Here's the evidence that Putin's forces kill civilians, then lie about it

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of planning to invade Ukraine.

SNP MP warns Russia invasion of Ukraine could spark ‘humanitarian crisis’

Dennis the Menace and Mary Queen of Scots paid a visit with eight-year-old Rocco Cesari and five-year-old Francesca Cesari to Luke Winter of the Story Wagon – a touring space offering creative writing, traditional storytelling and story sharing activities – at The Kelpies in Falkirk to launch Scotland's Year of Stories. Picture: VisitScotland/Chris Watt

Centuries of Scottish stories to be showcased in year-long culture celebration

Shamima Begum has spoken in an interview with Good Morning Britain, saying she would ‘rather die than go back to IS’ (Photo: ITV)

Shamima Begum says she'd 'rather die than go back to IS' as she begs for forgive...

A screen grab taken from ITV of Shamima Begum speaking to Good Morning Britain from the al-Roj prison camp in Syria. Picture: ITV

Shamima Begum wants to face terror trial in UK to prove innocence

The dried-up bed of Lake Hamrin in eastern Iraq is one sign of the severity of the drought affecting much of the region (Picture: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images)

Walls are no answer to looming climate refugee crisis – Scotsman says

Basama Hamaedh with husband Azzam Al Hussain and children Fatima, Hoda, Aisha and Abbas

Refugee family appeal to Scots to form community groups to help others

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