Video released by the Turkish Ministry of Defense shows UAVs working in the earthquake-hit areas. The drones are collecting information for the search and rescue operations.

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National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden recalled the Bay of Pigs Invasion following the revelation by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh about US involvement in the Nord Stream bombings

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❗️China is increasing its intelligence gathering activity in Europe, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg claims.

💬 "The Chinese balloon over the United States confirms a pattern of Chinese behavior," Stoltenberg said during a press conference in Washington. "We have also seen increased Chinese intelligence activities in Europe, again, different platforms. They use satellites, they use cyber, and as we’ve seen over the United States, also balloons."

The statement comes after a Chinese balloon transited the continental United States last week, culminating in the US shooting down the airship off its eastern coast. The US alleges the balloon was conducting surveillance, while China claims it was engaged in scientific research.

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Microsoft, OpenAI Team Up to Add High-Powered ChatGPT to Search Engine, Web Browser

“It’s a new paradigm for search, rapid innovation is going to come,” Nadella told reporters. “In fact, a race starts today … Every day we want to bring out new things, and most importantly, we want to have a lot of fun innovating in search because it’s high time.” “This technology is going to reshape pretty much every software category that we know,” he added.

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A 13-year-old boy and his pet parrot were rescued after being trapped for 55 hours under the rubble in Kahramanmarash, Turkiye

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Sanctions, Theft, Pressure: West Refuses to Stop Tormenting Syrians Despite Quake & War Damage

"What people need to understand is a lot of these buildings in these towns are made of concrete, to make concrete is a very energy demanding thing, and one of the things Syria doesn't have now because of the sanctions and because of the US occupation of one third of Syria. While it's an oil rich country, the United States controls 80% of Syria's oil because of its occupation. And the US is actually stealing billions of dollars of Syrian oil, which is a war crime. They are plundering Syria of its oil," said Dan Kovalik, an adjunct professor of international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law told Sputnik.

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Senior Chinese Diplomat: ‘No Point’ to Blinken Visit After Seeming US Reversal on Balloon Reaction

“The United States is exaggerating in this matter,” Lu Shaye, the Chinese ambassador to France, told French news on Monday, adding, “it is a civilian balloon used for meteorological research.”

“Indeed, what happened between China and the United States in the past few years has reduced the mutual trust between the two countries,” he added.

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Church of England Drop 'Our Father' From Prayers to Appease Trans and Non-Binary Churchgoers

"After some dialogue between the two commissions in this area, a new joint project on gendered language will begin this spring," said the Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Reverend Dr Michael Ipgrave. "In common with other potential changes to authorized liturgical provision, changing the wording and number of authorized forms of absolution would require a full synodical process for approval."

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‼️ Apartment block collapses in Russia's Novosibirsk city following gas explosion, governor details

➡️Preliminary findings have noted at least one person has died and another four individuals sustained injuries

Ukraine May Have Already Reacquired Nuclear Weapons, Polish General Says

“I do not rule out Ukraine having nuclear weapons, because the Ukrainians have nuclear power plants, scientists, laboratories and knowhow. In other words, everything they need to possess such a weapon. In fact, today no one is in a position to prohibit the Ukrainians from having it,” Skrzypczak, the former commander of Poland’s Land Forces, said in an interview with Polish media.

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🇨🇳🇺🇸 House Armed Services Committee lawmakers warned in a hearing Tuesday that China had "leapfrogged" the United States on hypersonic weapons technology and was on course to "outpacing" Washington "on new battlefields as well."

How do the armed forces of the world's economic superpowers stack up, and does the US really have cause for alarm?

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Scientists Propose Surrounding Earth With Moon Dust to Combat Global Warming

Astrophysicists have suggested looking at the option of placing lunar dust into Earth's orbit in order to avoid further climate warming, a newly-published study has detailed.

After modeling various trajectories, scientists determined that launching dust from Earth to a specific point between the Earth and the sun would create an effective sun screen. However, this solution would require an excessive amount of money and effort due to gravity and technical issues.

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📹 🇹🇷 Sputnik correspondent reports that in the city of Elbistan, Turkiye a group of rescuers from Spain and a team from Turkey managed to save a 24-year-old girl. She has been under the rubble of a 6-storey building for 62 hours. The rescue work has lasted about 10 hours; the girl has bone fractures and was sent to a public hospital

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🇹🇷 The Turkish Navy ship TCG Sancaktar has delivered medical personnel, surgical instruments, special equipment, and assistance to the port of Iskenderun in Hatay province.

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🇸🇾 Sanctions against Syria, which is dealing with the fallout of the devastating earthquake, drive prices up for everything and slow down humanitarian operations, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told Sputnik.

💬 "Sanctions do have these unintended consequences. And if I summarize, [it] increases the prices on everything that we do, takes more time to deliver the humanitarian services, it sometimes requires private supplies that could again increase the cost and there is this level of fear sometimes to facilitate the existing procedures [with regard to] sanctions," IFRC Under-Secretary-General for Operations Coordination Xavier Castellanos said in an interview.

▪️ Turkiye and Syria were rattled on Monday by a pair of major earthquakes and dozens of aftershocks that killed more than 10,000 people and collapsed thousands of homes. Syria's death toll has topped 1,200 people.

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⚡️ Turkiye's earthquake death toll has risen to 12,873 with 62,937 injured, the country's Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) says

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📹 On the night of February 8, the Russian military attacked the positions of Ukrainian militants near Avdeevka using Grad multiple-launch rocket systems. Russia observed its enemy with the help of the "Ironia" system.

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SpaceX Set to Prevent Ukraine's Army From Using Starlink Internet to Control Drones

Elon Musk's space company SpaceX has taken steps to prevent Ukraine's armed forces from using the Starlink satellite constellation for controlling and targeting drones as the technology was "never intended to be weaponized," Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, said on Wednesday.

The president did not elaborate on what exact use the Ukrainian military made of Starlink to "weaponize" the satellite constellation. However, The Ukrainian Defense Ministry said earlier that it was forming companies of drone operators equipped with Starlink satellite communications, drones, and ammunition to target Russian forces.

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⚡️ A 5.5 magnitude earthquake registered in Indonesia, seismologists say

📹🚀 A Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the Progress MS-22 cargo spacecraft, bound for the International Space Station (ISS), was launched from the Baikonur space center on Thursday, according to a broadcast by Russian state space corporation Roscosmos.

👌🏽 Thus, Russia set a national record of 100 consecutive successful launches of space launch vehicles in its modern history.

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