The United Nations denounced on Sunday the failure to deliver desperately needed aid to war-torn regions of Syria, while warning the death toll of more than 33,000 from the earthquake that also struck Turkey is set to rise far higher. A UN convoy with supplies for northwest Syria arrived via Türkiye, but the agency’s relief chief Martin Griffiths said much more was needed for millions whose homes were destroyed.

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