The death toll from powerful earthquakes that devastated areas of Turkey and Syria has topped 40,000, according to figures collated by authorities in the two countries and other sources, as the United Nations began transporting relief materials through a new border crossing to Syria."The scale of this disaster is one of the worst in recent memory," U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres told reporters at the international body's headquarters in New York on Tuesday, citing the need to boost aid to those in violence-torn areas of Syria."The human suffering from this epic natural disaster sho…READ FULL ARTICLE
