Template:In the news
![Rescuers in winter jackets, two of them in firefighter uniforms, standing in front and on top of the rubble of a collapsed commercial centre.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/2023_Turkey_Earthquake_Damage.jpg/187px-2023_Turkey_Earthquake_Damage.jpg)
- An earthquake (damage pictured) strikes Turkey and Syria, killing over 15,000 people and injuring more than 66,000 others.
- Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf dies at the age of 79.
- A Chinese balloon suspected of surveillance and espionage is shot down after overflying Canada and the United States.
- Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) makes its closest approach to the Earth.
- A suicide bombing in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, kills 100 people and injures more than 220 others.
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