
Huge Afghanistan Earthquake: Even More Disastrous for Women
After destructive tremors women are left without help—not least thanks to a legal ban on men touching women.

After destructive tremors women are left without help—not least thanks to a legal ban on men touching women.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake struck at a depth of 19.3 kilometres.

The IHH is banned in multiple EU countries for terror ties and is acknowledged by experts as a Turkish government proxy used to provide logistical support for Islamists.

In the wake of February’s devastating earthquake, the Turkish president promised an ambitious reconstruction program in a bid to keep voters on his side.

Calls for Rutte’s resignation have grown in the wake of a report from the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on Natural Gas Extraction in Groningen which concluded “the interests of the people of Groningen have been systematically ignored in the natural gas extraction” in the city, and added the result has “had disastrous consequences for them.”

The EU’s Civil Protection mechanism has been activated and European rescue teams are on their way to the affected areas.