The UN's cultural agency UNESCO said two sites listed on its World Heritage list in Syria and Turkey sustained damage in the devastating earthquake and warned several others may also have been hit.
UNESCO sounds alarm over quake damage to Turkey, Syria heritage
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07 February 2023, International
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