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The international community and the Syrian government did not act quickly enough to help victims of the earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria last month, according to a UN-backed commission.

In total, more than 50,000 people died in the earthquake, of which over 6,000 of them were in Syria. The commission now states that it took a full week for the UN and President Bashar al-Assad to agree to open border crossings in the rebel-held region bordering Turkey.

– Since the earthquake happened, we have seen many Syrians who did what they could on their own to help those who fell victim. At the same time, we witnessed a total failure by the government and the international community to urgently provide life-saving aid to northwestern Syria, Commissioner Paulo Pinheiro said at a press briefing in Geneva.

The US government has approved the Willow oil venture in Alaska. This allows the oil giant Conoco Phillips to drill for oil in three locations on a federally owned area in western Alaska, TT reports.

The project is described as the largest in the area in decades. And could produce upwards of 180,000 barrels of oil a day for the next 30 years.

However, the project has received strong criticism from several environmental organizations. The emissions of Willow would be equivalent to two million new exhaust cars.

The US central bank, the Federal Reserve (Fed), is to investigate what caused the collapse of the niche Silicon Valley Bank last week when investors withdrew billions of dollars within a few hours. Fox Business reports.

Michael S. Barr, deputy director for regulatory affairs within the framework of the Fed, will lead the investigation.

– The events surrounding Silicon Valley Bank require a thorough, transparent and prompt review by the Federal Reserve, said Fed chief Jerome Powell, according to Fox Business.

The US sells five nuclear-powered submarines to Australia when the Aukus military pact takes real shape, TT reports.

The Aukus military pact takes a step towards closer cooperation when US President Joe Biden receives Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British leader Rishi Sunak in San Diego in the state of California.

The three leaders must agree on how Chinese expansion in the region should be met in the Pacific.

Australia’s purchase of American submarines and the investments surrounding them are expected to cost 368 billion Australian dollars over the next 30 years. This corresponds to around SEK 2,600 billion.

Women across Iran are taking off their hijabs in protest against the regime, reports say NPR.

– They have to get used to the fact that we women have our own freedom, says Niloufar, 24, to NPR.

The protests gained momentum after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested by morality police for wearing her headscarf “incorrectly”.

On signs around galleries and in restaurants, there are signs that women should keep wearing their hijab.

But according to Niloufar, nobody has stopped her recently to ask her to wear it.

– Not since the protests, she says.

The pension company Alecta knew that Silicon Valley Bank had problems, says Alecta’s CEO Magnus Billing i Current.

– We have of course had a close dialogue with SVB and have also drawn attention to these things with withdrawals increasing, that the investments in long-term fixed income securities have affected the liquidity in the company. We thought that the action plan presented by the company was good.

But according to Magnus Billing, the bank chose to do something different than what they presented to the owners when it came down to it.

– Then the company chose, for reasons I do not know, to go out and do another type of action by selling securities and going out with an issue to the market without having guaranteed it with investors. I think that was a big mistake.

At least 99 people have died after Cyclone Freddy moved into larger parts of Malawi today than first thought, reports Reuters.

Another four died in Mozambique this weekend.

Even places that were seen in advance as safe were affected and the extent of damage and possible deaths is not yet completely clear, the authorities in Mozambique state.

Freddy has previously caused havoc in Madagascar and Zimbabwe and, according to the UN’s weather agency World Meteorological Organization (WMO), is on track to become the longest-lasting tropical cyclone.

In total, 136 people have been confirmed dead in the storm. The worst affected is therefore Malawi, where President Lazarus Chakwera has declared a state of emergency in the southern part of the country.

A four-year-old girl in Texas was killed when her three-year-old sister reached for an unsecured gun and fired a shot, NTB reports.

The incident occurred on Sunday while several adults, including the girl’s parents, were present at the family’s home in Houston.

– The three-year-old got hold of a loaded semi-automatic pistol. Family members heard a gunshot and ran into the child’s room where they found the four-year-old lifeless on the floor, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales said.

– This appears to be another tragic story of children getting hold of firearms and harming others.

The 70-year-old glam rocker Gary Glitter is being recalled to prison after breaching the conditions imposed on all sex offenders after serving their sentence, Sky News reports.

Glitter was released last month after serving half of his 16-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting three schoolgirls.

The police have been alerted about an injured man who arrived at the Sockenplan subway station in southern Stockholm

The police suspect that the man was injured with a knife.

– The person is bleeding and must have made it to the station on his own, says police spokesperson Rebecca Landberg.

No one has been arrested, but according to police information, the suspected perpetrator is said to be nearby.

The injured man has been taken to hospital. According to the police, he did not sustain life-threatening injuries.

The high jumper legend Dick Fosbury has died in the suites of cancer, reports TT.

Among other things, Fosbury has made himself known for inventing the “Fosbury flop”, a style in high jump where the jumper passes the bar with his back to it. Fosbury won gold at the 1968 Olympics using the style.