Children plucked from ruins days after earthquake, but death tolls tops 22,000
RESCUE crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey and dug several people from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week's huge earthquake. The confirmed death toll from the deadliest quake in the region in two decades stood at more than 22,000 across southern Turkey and northwest Syria four days after it hit. Hundreds of thousands more people have been left homeless and short of food in bleak winter conditions and leaders in both countries have faced questions about their response. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made…