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Carrie Underwood has spoken out after reportedly falling on steps outside her home in Nashville last week. She was hospitalized.

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Carrie Underwood has spoken out after reportedly falling on steps outside her home in Nashville last week.

The fall took place on Friday night, according to the Tennessean.

A statement from an Underwood spokesperson said the singer has been treated and released from a hospital for a broken wrist, cuts and abrasions, the paper says.

"Thanks so much for all the well wishes everybody...I'll be alright...might just take some time...glad I've got the best hubby in the world to take care of me," Underwood tweeted Sunday.

Underwood's spouse Mike Fisher went to Nashville to be with her, per the report, which said that she'll miss the Country Rising Concert in Nashville.

Dierks Bentley, Sam Hunt and Keith Urban were some of the performers at the Sunday benefit event.

Underwood co-hosted the CMA Awards alongside Brad Paisley in Nashville on Wednesday night. It was the tenth consecutive time Underwood and Paisley emceed the awards show.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Carrie Underwood has spoken out after reportedly falling on steps outside her home in Nashville last week. The fall took place on Friday night, according to the Tennessean. A statement from an Underwood spokesperson said the singer has been treated and released from a hospital for a broken wrist, cuts and abrasions, the paper says.

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Thor Ragnarok has earned $650 million world wide.

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he same day that the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs held its first service since a gunman opened fire on parishioners last week, killing 25 people and an unborn child, residents and visitors got to see how the church had been turned into a memorial.

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On Sunday evening, the church opened its doors and invited the public inside the sanctuary, which had been emptied and transformed into a memorial, completely covered from floor to ceiling in white.

Those who visited found 26 roses on 26 white chairs, representing each of the victims who lost their lives.

A single pink rose was placed on a chair in honor of the unborn child. Crystal Holcombe, who was two months pregnant, was killed in the attack.

A recording of some of the victims' voices played in the background. They were reading scripture, or praying.

At the front of the church, behind a wooden cross, visitors could read a poster of the scripture that was meant to be read last Sunday.

It was Psalm 100, which reads, in part, "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name. For Yahweh is good, and His love is eternal; His faithfulness endures through all generations."

CNN's Dakin Andone, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Kaylee Hartung contributed to this report

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The same day that the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs held its first service since a gunman opened fire on its parishioners last week and killed 25 people and an unborn child, residents and visitors got to see how the church had been turned into a memorial.

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Powerful Iran-Iraq earthquake is deadliest of 2017

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At least 452 people were killed and thousands injured after a powerful earthquake struck near the border of Iran and Iraq late Sunday.

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Officer in Tennessee shot and wounded a man who who took her stun during a fight.

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Police in Tennessee say an officer shot and wounded a man who took her stun gun during a fight.

Knoxville police spokesman Darrell DeBusk tells the Knoxville News Sentinel the female officer had stopped to question a man and a woman on suspicion of carrying stolen items from nearby homes Sunday.

DeBusk says the man fought the officer to the ground and grabbed her stun gun. The officer then fired her gun once, hitting the man in the arm and the bullet grazed his chest.

The spokesman says the 33-year-old man, whose identity wasn't immediately released, was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with injuries that weren't life threatening. The officer was treated for scrapes and bruises.

The shooting is being investigated by the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

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Floor collapses in during a college party in an apartment in Texas.

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A raucous party in an over-crowded apartment near a Texas college came to a crashing end early Sunday when the floor collapsed into the apartment below.

The harrowing scene at The Ridge at North Texas, near the University of North Texas in Denton, was captured on video from multiple angles and posted to social media.

Many who were at the party could be seen crawling over beams and plywood after the collapse.

Only minor injuries were reported, Denton Police said.

"I have nowhere to go. Everything I own is in there," Carley Carroll, who lived in the second-floor apartment below the party, told FOX 4 News. "That's life threatening. If we were in our living room, we wouldn't have made it out because by what we've seen, it's just completely gone."

Carroll and her three roommates, all North Texas sophomores, were not home at the time. Instead, they were at the Denton Police Department making a noise complaint about the party.

Police told FOX 4 they believe there was 100 people at the party.

Carroll told the station she's called the cops on her upstairs neighbors' parties before.

"We've called and said, 'It looks like the ceiling is going to cave in,' so I feel like with us saying that, there could've been more that was done," she said.

The floor collapse also caused water to spew from broken pipes into other apartments. The damage has affected 50 other residents at the complex.

The Ridge at North Texas lists itself online as "a student-only community located in Denton, Texas, which serves the students of the University of North Texas, Texas Woman's University, and North Central Texas College."

"A vast choice of amenities and its friendly staff create a worry-free environment that allows residents to focus on the most important thing - being a successful college student," according to the complex website.

Denton Police told FOX 4 they have received previous noise complaints, but people have mostly left the party by the time officers arrive.

Students affected by the collapse said the apartment management company and university have secured places for them to stay, mostly in hotels or dorms.

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A raucous party in an over-crowded apartment near a Texas college came to a crashing end early Sunday when the floor collapsed into the apartment below. The harrowing scene at The Ridge at North Texas, near the University of North Texas in Denton, was captured on video from multiple angles and posted to social media.

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Hundreds dead in Iran-Iraq 7.3 earthquake. It is the deadliest earthquake of 2017. Officials say over 407 people are dead in Iran. In Iraq, nine have died, and in both countries, they have very little to no aid.

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Iraq military helicopter crashes during a training exercise  and kills 7.

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Iraq's Defense Ministry says a military helicopter has crashed during a training exercise, killing all three crew members on board.

The statement says the Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter crashed Sunday morning in the central Wasit province. The cause of the accident was not immediately known. The ministry had initially reported that seven crew members died.

The province is located about 100 miles (160 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, far from the front lines of the war with the Islamic State group. U.S.-backed Iraqi forces have driven the extremists from nearly all the territory they once controlled, with some fighting still ongoing near the western border with Syria.

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Iraqi military helicopter crashes, 3-member crew killed

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A stabbing at one of the nation's largest malls has left two people injured and shoppers who were waiting to see Santa Claus shocked following what police call an "interrupted theft."

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A stabbing at one of the nation's largest malls has left two people injured and shoppers who were waiting to see Santa Claus shocked following what police call an "interrupted theft."

Police say the incident happened Sunday evening in the dressing room area of the Mall of America's Macy's. Police say one victim was stabbed after confronting a man attempting to steal his belongings from the dressing room. The second victim was stabbed after intervening.

A 20-year-old man is in custody. The victims were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Maddie Schwieters tells KARE-TV she was in line to see Santa when she ran toward the commotion nearby and saw two people on the floor. The 16-year-old calls the incident "horrific." Police say shoppers weren't in any danger. Macy's closed early but the rest of the mall stayed open.

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2 stabbed at Minnesota's Mall of America; man in custody

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A stabbing at one of the nation's largest malls has left two people injured and shoppers who were waiting to see Santa Claus shocked following what police call an "interrupted theft." Police say the incident happened Sunday evening in the dressing room area of the Mall of America's Macy's....

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A powerful 7.3 eathquake shakes Iran and Iraq. at least 400 people are dead and counting and at least 6650 people are injured.

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At least 452 people were killed and thousands injured after a powerful earthquake struck near the border of Iran and Iraq late Sunday.

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JetBlue passenger bit by dog at Orlando airport

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A JetBlue passenger from Massachusetts says she isn't thrilled with how the airline is handling a recent incident that occurred at the Orlando International Airport.

Brittany Langlois told Fox 25 Boston that she was bit by a fellow passenger's dog while waiting to check in for her flight. However, she says she's having no luck tracking down the animal's owner after JetBlue employees scuttled the other passenger from the line - leaving Langlois uncertain of whether or not to seek treatment for rabies.
ORLANDO AIRPORT EVACUATED AFTER EXPLODING BATTERY MISTAKEN FOR SHOOTING
"[My doctor says] 'it's an extremely painful shot and it's a series of three, I wouldn't want you to go through that if you didn't have to,'" Langlios told Fox 25. "At the same time, I'm like, I don't wanna go through that either."

Langlois added that when the incident first occurred last Sunday, she was in such a state of shock that she didn't get the other passenger's information, let alone any information on the dog or its vaccination history.

"I turn around and this owner is kinda reeling the dog back in, and I look at her and I'm like 'that dog just bit me!' and I think I was in like, and initial shock," Langlois said.
AIRPORT BRINGING IN THERAPY DOGS TO EASE ANXIOUS PASSENGERS
Fox 25 reports that Langlios wasn't able to track down any information on the dog's owners from JetBlue agents. Furthermore, her subsequent efforts with JetBlue's customer service department have been futile.

"[JetBlue customer service is] like, 'There's nothing we can do, we can cover your medical bills but that's about it,' said Langlois. She also claims the airline offered her a $50 voucher for a future JetBlue flight, though she doubts she'll use it.
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In the meantime, Langlois' doctor has reportedly put her on antibiotics and pain medication, but she only has a few days left before her deadline for a series of rabies shots has expired.

Representatives for JetBlue or the Orlando International Airport have not yet responded to requests for comment.

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2 stabbed at Minnesota's Mall of America; man in custody.

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A stabbing at one of the nation's largest malls has left two people injured and shoppers who were waiting to see Santa Claus shocked following what police call an "interrupted theft."

Police say the incident happened Sunday evening in the dressing room area of the Mall of America's Macy's. Police say one victim was stabbed after confronting a man attempting to steal his belongings from the dressing room. The second victim was stabbed after intervening.

A 20-year-old man is in custody. The victims were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Maddie Schwieters tells KARE-TV she was in line to see Santa when she ran toward the commotion nearby and saw two people on the floor. The 16-year-old calls the incident "horrific." Police say shoppers weren't in any danger. Macy's closed early but the rest of the mall stayed open.

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Costa Rica hit by magnitude 6.5 earthquake

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The quake was centered 16 km west of Jacó, Costa Rica, at a depth of 10 km, according to the USGS. It gave the quake preliminary magnitude of 6.8, but later downgraded it.

The observatory at the Universidad Nacional Costa Rica said the earthquake measured 6.9.

Jacó lies southwest of Costa Rica's capital, San Jose, and is part of the region of Puntarenas, on the Pacific Coast.

Emergency response agencies activated

Three people suffered fatal heart attacks that coincided with the time of the earthquake -- two in Jacó and one person further south in Coronado -- according to a statement from Costa Rica's presidency.

It said the country's Judicial Investigation Agency was investigating the deaths.

At least one building in Jacó had been evacuated due to apparent damage and there were reports of walls collapsing and objects falling in other parts of the country, but there were no reports of any further injuries, the statement said.

Costa Rica's hospitals were functioning normally and minor power outages had been quickly resolved, it said, with the quake felt most severely in the provincial districts of Quepos, Parrita and Garabito -- of which Jacó is capital.

The presidency said that emergency response agencies had been activated and remained on alert following the quake.

President Luis Guillermo Solís earlier tweeted that no tsunami warning had been issued.

The Fuerza Publica warned on Twitter that there were landslides on the road between Jaco to Tárcoles, further north.

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The quake was centered 16 km west of Jacó, Costa Rica, at a depth of 10 km, according to the USGS. It gave the quake preliminary magnitude of 6.8, but later downgraded it. The observatory at the Universidad Nacional Costa Rica said the earthquake measured 6.9.

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The modern gold rush that's destroying the Amazon

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That nice, round number brought cheers on London trading floors and toasts in Manhattan bars, but it made a different noise in "Mother of God," Peru.

Madre de Dios is a pristine chunk of the Amazon about the size of South Carolina, where macaws and monkeys, jaguars and butterflies thrive. It is some of the healthiest rainforest left on Earth and here, that $1000 number brought the sound of chain saws, diesel pumps and dirt bikes.

It created jungle boomtowns, complete with pop-up brothels and gun fights, as tens of thousands of men from the poorest corners of Peru joined a modern gold rush.

Much like the '49ers sluiced for treasure in California more than 150 years ago, these miners use primitive methods involving mercury. Most don't fully understand that "quicksilver" is toxic to every form of life in the Amazon. Or that since they fish the same waters they mine, it can end up in their own bloodstream, causing a host of health problems.

To learn to be an illegal gold miner takes only a few hours. They work in packs of three or four, using a crude system of pumps and hoses to turn sandy river banks into a slurry the color of café con leche.

The sediment is sifted through screens and old carpets and poured into barrels, where a barefoot miner (or his child) stomps this toxic stew of mud and mercury until a small, shiny ball of gold and mercury amalgam remains at the bottom.

The cost is easy to see from satellite images. Illegal mining has turned more than 600 square miles of pristine Madre de Dios rainforest into a treeless, toxic wasteland, a Peruvian government official told me in 2016.

"It's a perfect storm," said Luis Fernandez, the executive director of the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation. "High prices of gold, tremendous poverty, high biodiversity and very vulnerable tribes that aren't used to outsiders. And so it's like the Wild West."

In his years with the US Environmental Protection Agency, Fernandez noticed how mercury poisoning and deforestation trends spiked every time the price of gold jumped. He watched the population of sleepy Puerto Maldonado explode and dozens of illegal gold shops pop up, some of which release as much mercury as a coal-fired power plant.

So along with his colleagues at Wake Forest University, he built the Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation, the very first research center in the jungle to study the effects of illicit gold mining on everything from human health to deforestation impacts.

He said he wonders whether these precious landscapes may be lost forever. He dreams of a day when "green gold" will be traded with ethics similar to conflict-free diamonds.

But gold is a much more complicated market to regulate. A full crackdown would drive tens of thousands of subsistence miners into hunger, while the cash-strapped Peruvian government struggles to control a $2.6 billion black market, according to a 2016 report.

In the meantime, as global markets roil and the price of gold stays high, the healthy Amazon disappears ... an ounce and an acre at a time.

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A modern gold rush is destroying the Amazon

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That nice, round number brought cheers on London trading floors and toasts in Manhattan bars, but it made a different noise in "Mother of God," Peru. Madre de Dios is a pristine chunk of the Amazon about the size of South Carolina, where macaws and monkeys, jaguars and butterflies thrive.

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The Pokemon Go cretors has announced a teaser to confirmed the new Harry Potter AR game. They craters say the player will be a wizard.

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Harry Potter fans may soon spot a flying Hippogriff in real life.

Niantic Labs, the company behind the popular Pokémon Go game, announced on Thursday it's working on a Harry Potter augmented reality game.

A launch date has not yet been announced, but Niantic Labs said more information will be released in 2018.

Similar to Pokemon Go, the Harry Potter; Wizards Unite mobile game will show digital images on top of real-life objects when you view them on a smartphone or tablet.

The company has partnered with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and WB Games San Francisco's development team on the project.

Although details about the game are scarce, Niantic Labs teased the premise in a press release.

"Players will learn spells, explore their real world neighborhoods and cities to discover and fight legendary beasts and team up with others to take down powerful enemies," the company said in a statement.

Related: Pokémon quietly launches new gaming app

The Harry Potter AR game has been long rumored but was ultimately labeled a hoax by fact-checking site Snopes. The website said memes and petitions snowballed into a rumor that the concept was becoming a reality. Snopes has since updated its post.

Pokemon Go, which was released in the summer of 2016, was an instant hit. Apple said it broke its App Store download record, but it didn't disclose the exact numbers.

While excitement around the game has largely faded, it still had 65 million monthly active users as of April.

CNNMoney (New York) First published November 9, 2017: 12:02 PM ET

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2 people stabbed a Minnesota mall of America and the man is in custody

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A stabbing at one of the nation's largest malls has left two people injured and shoppers who were waiting to see Santa Claus shocked following what police call an "interrupted theft."

Police say the incident happened Sunday evening in the dressing room area of the Mall of America's Macy's. Police say one victim was stabbed after confronting a man attempting to steal his belongings from the dressing room. The second victim was stabbed after intervening.

A 20-year-old man is in custody. The victims were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Maddie Schwieters tells KARE-TV she was in line to see Santa when she ran toward the commotion nearby and saw two people on the floor. The 16-year-old calls the incident "horrific." Police say shoppers weren't in any danger. Macy's closed early but the rest of the mall stayed open.

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Texas church turned into a memorial after mass shooting.

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On Sunday evening, the church opened its doors and invited the public inside the sanctuary, which had been emptied and transformed into a memorial, completely covered from floor to ceiling in white.

Those who visited found 26 roses on 26 white chairs, representing each of the victims who lost their lives.

A single pink rose was placed on a chair in honor of the unborn child. Crystal Holcombe, who was two months pregnant, was killed in the attack.

A recording of some of the victims' voices played in the background. They were reading scripture, or praying.

At the front of the church, behind a wooden cross, visitors could read a poster of the scripture that was meant to be read last Sunday.

It was Psalm 100, which reads, in part, "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and praise His name. For Yahweh is good, and His love is eternal; His faithfulness endures through all generations."

CNN's Dakin Andone, Jaide Timm-Garcia and Kaylee Hartung contributed to this report

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A 7.3 earth quake hits Iraq and in result kills more than 348 people.

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More than 300 people were killed in Iran when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the country on Sunday, state media said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area. At least six have died in Iraq as well.

State television said more than 348 people were killed in Iran and at least 6,600 were injured. Local officials said the death toll would rise as search and rescue teams reached remote areas of Iran.

The earthquake was felt in several western provinces of Iran, but the hardest hit province was Kermanshah, which announced three days of mourning. More than 300 of the victims were in Sarpol-e Zahab county in Kermanshah province, about 15 km (10 miles) from the Iraq border.

Iranian state television said the quake had caused heavy damage in some villages where houses were made of earthen bricks. Rescuers were labouring to find survivors trapped under collapsed buildings.

Iranian media reported that a woman and her baby were pulled out alive from the rubble on Monday in Sarpol-e Zahab, the worst hit area with a population of 85,000.

The quake also triggered landslides that hindered rescue efforts, officials told state television. At least 14 provinces in Iran had been affected, Iranian media reported.

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei offered his condolences on Monday, urging all government agencies to do all they could to help those affected.
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The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake measured magnitude 7.3. An Iraqi meteorology official put its magnitude at 6.5, with the epicentre in Penjwin in Sulaimaniyah province in the Kurdistan region, close to the main border crossing with Iran.

Tempers frayed in the quake-hit area as the search went on for survivors amidst twisted rubble of collapsed buildings. State TV aired footage of disfigured buildings, vehicles under rubble and wounded people wrapped in blankets.

"We need a shelter ... " a middle-aged man in Sarpol-e Zahab told state TV. "Where is the aid? Where is the help?" His family could not spend another night outside in cold weather, he said.

Kurdish health officials said at least six people were killed in Iraq and at least 68 injured. Iraq's health and local officials said the worst-hit area was Darbandikham district, near the border with Iran, where at least 10 houses had collapsed and the district's only hospital was severely damaged.

"The situation there is very critical," Kurdish Health Minister Rekawt Hama Rasheed told Reuters.

The district's main hospital was severely damaged and had no power, Rasheed said, so the injured were taken to Sulaimaniyah for treatment. Homes and buildings had extensive structural damage, he said.

The quake was felt as far south as Baghdad, where many residents rushed from their houses and tall buildings when tremors shook the Iraqi capital.

"I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air," said Majida Ameer, who ran out of her building in the capital's Salihiya district with her three children.

"I thought at first that it was a huge bomb. But then I heard everyone around me screaming: 'Earthquake!'"

Similar scenes unfolded in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, and across other cities in northern Iraq, close to the quake's epicentre.

Iraq's meteorology centre advised people to stay away from buildings and not to use elevators in case of aftershocks.
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Electricity and water was cut off in several Iranian and Iraqi cities, and fears of aftershocks sent thousands of people in both countries out onto the streets and parks in cold weather.

Across the area, thousands of rescue workers and special teams using sniffer dogs and heat sensors searched wreckage. Blocked roads made it hard for rescue workers to reach some remote villages.

Iranian authorities acknowledged the relief effort was still slow and patchy. The Iranian seismological centre registered around 153 aftershocks and said more were expected. More than 70,000 people needed emergency shelter, the head of Iranian Red Crescent said.

Hojjat Gharibian was one of hundreds of homeless Iranian survivors, who was huddled against the cold with his family in Qasr-e Shirin.

"My two children were sleeping when the house started to collapse because of the quake. I took them and ran to the street. We spent hours in the street until aid workers moved us into a school building," Gharibian told Reuters by telephone.

Iran's police, the elite Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated Basij militia forces were dispatched to the quake-hit areas overnight, state TV reported. President Hassan Rouhani is expected to visit the Kermanshah province, TV reported.

Iran sits astride major fault lines and is prone to frequent tremors. A magnitude 6.6 quake on Dec. 26, 2003, devastated the historic city of Bam, 1,000 km southeast of Tehran, killing about 31,000 people.

An Iranian oil official said pipelines and refineries in the area remained intact.
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Residents of Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir also reported feeling a strong tremor, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties there.

Turkish Red Crescent Chairman Kerem Kinik told broadcaster NTV that Red Crescent teams in Erbil were preparing to go to the site of the earthquake and that Turkey's national disaster management agency, AFAD, and National Medical Rescue Teams were also preparing to head into Iraq.

AFAD's chairman said the organisation was waiting for a reply to its offer for help.

In a tweet, Kinik said the Turkish Red Crescent was gathering 3,000 tents and heaters, 10,000 beds and blankets and moving them towards the Iraqi border.

"We are coordinating with Iranian and Iraqi Red Crescent groups. We are also getting prepared to make deliveries from our northern Iraq Erbil depot," he said.

Israeli media said the quake was felt in many parts of Israel as well. In a statement, Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz said, "My condolences to the people of Iran and Iraq over the loss of human life caused by the earthquake." Iran refuses to recognise Israel.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi, reporting by Raya Jalabi and Ahmed Rasheed in Iraq, Bozorgmeh Sharafedin in Londn, Tuvan Gumrukcu and Irem Koca in Ankara, Dan Williams in Jerusalem, and Dubai newsroom; Editing by Peter Cooney, Bill Tarrant, Larry King)

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More than 300 people were killed in Iran when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the country on Sunday, state media said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area. At least six have died in Iraq as well.