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In a "race against time," the White Helmets, who are leading efforts to rescue those trapped under debris in rebel-held areas of earthquake -devastated Syria, made an appeal on Wednesday. When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Turkiye early on Monday, first responders from the organisation that was established ten years ago to rescue the lives of civilians during Syria's civil conflict sprung into action. Since then, they have been working to extricate survivors from beneath the rubble of dozens of destroyed buildings in northwest Syria that are still under the control of the rebels. A video showing the White Helmets rescuing a young girl and her entire family from a fallen building in the province of Idlib was widely circulated on social media. Mohammed Shibli, a spokesman for the organisation formally known as the Syria Civil Defense, declared that "international rescue teams must enter our territory." In a neighbouring country called Turkiye,...