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Wishful thinking or not, diplomacy has prevailed in the East Mediterranean since a devastating earthquake killed more than 50,000 people in Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6.

Along with Finland's official admittance to NATO comes 830 more miles of shared borders between the military alliance and Moscow.

Finland cleared a critical hurdle to joining the military alliance, sparking threats from Russian President Vladimir Putin's top propagandists.

Pisa the cat was rescued from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey.

"They're NATO allies, and we're going to continue to work together with them on lots of different issues of mutual concern," NSC spokesman John Kirby said.

Finland's president looks set to get the NATO nod from Turkey on Friday, while Sweden's bid remains stuck in limbo.

Journalists covering global events face a constant buzzing in the ear: what words to use when there's a narrative dispute. The issue is ever more acute in our frenzied era of societal polarization, entitled grievance politics, and never-ending spin—like efforts to brand an invasion of Ukraine as a "special military operation."

Russian forces vacated most personnel in the annexed territory in November.

Turkey, under intense pressure from the U.S. and E.U., "abruptly" began to block the transit of sanctioned goods to Russia.

Turkey and Hungary seem to be rethinking their Russia-friendly stances.

The humanitarian response to a natural disaster can be an opportunity to demonstrate the power of human solidarity among states and communities in conflict. While the levels of animosity and mistrust between Armenia and Turkey are great, they share the same volatile seismic geography that has killed tens of thousands of people in the last 40 years.

An advisor to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Newsweek that "anti-Turkish lobbies" do "not help to strengthen Euro-Atlantic alliance."

A new member to NATO could double the presence of the alliance along Russian territory.

"I owe her a lot," Rumeysa Gürbüz, a survivor of the powerful earthquake in Turkey, said of her beloved pet cat Leyla after being reunited. "There is hope."

The clip of the animal being pulled from the rubble in Southeastern Turkey has been viewed more than 2 million times on social media.

Greene was joined by fellow Republican Representative Thomas Massie in voting against the resolution on Monday.

The aftershock occurred just two weeks after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated the region, killing over 46,000 people.

It was absolutely otherworldly; I'm still processing it.

The skirmish reportedly occurred between members of Russian team Shinnik Yaroslavl FC and Ukrainian team Minaj FC in the Royal Seginus Hotel in Antalya.

IDF Colonel Elad Edri said voices "are indeed still" heard from under the debris more than 72 hours later, "although it's rarer."

Some on social media are saying the whole country has "moved" since the 7.8 magnitude quake hit the region on Monday. Scientists explain what really happened.

We must keep supplies moving to the region to save lives.

The earthquake in Turkey has magnitude of 7.8, and is estimated to have killed at least 11,000 people.

What was supposed to be a rapid expansion of the alliance has been delayed indefinitely by deepening Turkish opposition.

The viral video, posted to Reddit, shows birds flying around in circles before all landings in the branches of the few nearby trees.

Scientists believe that the earthquakes of 1513, 1872 and 1893 may have built up the stresses on the fault line.

Over 11,000 people have been killed in a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Northern Syria on Monday. Some past earthquakes have been even deadlier.

Syria's U.N. Mission told Newsweek that the U.S. was "bragging about providing billions of dollars," while also "looting and plundering the Syrian resources."

More than 6,000 have been killed by the earthquake in Syria and Turkey, and the numbers are expected to rise.

Social media is awash with shocking images and footage in the wake of the devastating Turkey disaster, but not all of it is real, Misinformation Watch found.