Live Updates: Powerful earthquake hits Aegean sea, causing buildings to collapse in Turkey — RT World News

 A powerful earthquake has struck off the coast of Turkey, toppling buildings in the tourist city of Izmir, causing damage across several Turkish towns and shaking the Greek capital of Athens.

Turkish, Greek officials meet on migrant swap

A total of 25 Turkish officials have reached their assigned posts on the Greek islands to work together with Greek officials to coordinate the registration of illegal migrants arriving via Turkey, which has agreed to take them back as part of a Turkey-EU deal.

9 migrants, including two infants, drown off Turkish coast

Nine migrants, two of them babies, drowned after the boat carrying them capsized off Turkey's Aegean coast on Tuesday.

At the Nobel Peace Prize offered to nominate residents of six Greek islands

Residents of a number of Greek islands which assisted refugees nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize according to The Guardian. We are talking about a population of Lesvos Kos Chios Samos Rhodes and Leros.