A family from Syria in Turkish Antakya told Sputnik how they spent three days under the rubble.

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London Police Urged to Reopen Partygate Probe Amid Claims Downing Street Staff Destroyed Evidence

British authorities have been urged to look into the scandal known as Partygate again after "new information" reportedly came to light.

Partygate involved British government officials illegally partying at 10 Downing Street amid the COVID lockdowns imposed in the country by the government itself. It was one of the major factors in the collapse of the Boris Johnson government last year.

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💥 A World War II bomb has unexpectedly exploded in the UK city of Great Yarmouth located in the eastern county of Norfolk, the local police said.

"We can confirm the unexploded World War II bomb in Great Yarmouth has detonated. This was not a planned detonation and happened during slow burn work to disarm the explosives. All army and emergency service personnel are accounted for," the Norfolk Police wrote on Twitter on Friday.

The police added that no one had been injured as a result of the bomb explosion.

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Protests in Peru Resulted in 60 Deaths Since December - Ombudsman’s Office

At least 60 people have died in Peru since the start of the mass protests at the end of last year, while over 1,200 others have been injured, the Peruvian Ombudsman's Office has said.

"48 civilians were killed in clashes [with police], 11 civilians - due to road closures, one policeman - from conflict violence," the ombudsman’s office said on Friday, adding that 1,247 people have been injured.

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Hull of Russia's Progress MS-21 Cargo Spacecraft Depressurized, Roscosmos Says

The hull of the Progress MS-21 cargo ship suffered an unexpected depressurization on Saturday, Russian space agency Roscosmos said.

"The contour of the Progress MS-21 transport cargo ship, deorbitation of which is scheduled for February 18, was depressurized, as confirmed by the telemetry data of the mission control center," the agency said in a statement.

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📹Russian 152mm D-20 howitzer crews and UAVs in combat action (video by Russian MoD)

The artillery operators conduct counterbattery warfare, destroying multiple-launch rocket systems, mortar crews, and other targets detected by reconnaissance units.

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Caught in a Bad Romance: Toronto Mayor Resigns Over Affair With Staffer

The relationship began during the COVID-19 pandemic and ended earlier this year by mutual agreement, he told reporters during a presser. The identity of his paramour has not been revealed, however, according to media reports, she is in her 30s and no longer works in the city administration.

The conservative politican has apologized to his family and city residents whom he says he let down.

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Why Hersh's Nord Stream Bombshell May Become Legal Nightmare for Team Biden & Its Nordic Allies

The White House has denounced Seymour Hersh's Nord Stream bombshell as "fiction.” Oslo claimed that the Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist's allegations are "nonsensical." Still, the denials are unlikely to satisfy the public given that EU probes in the attack remain top secret, Sputnik's interlocutors say.

"Many people - including myself - determined at the time that blowing up the pipeline was a US/NATO operation that was being falsely blamed on Russia," Hans Mahncke, a US investigative journalist and lawyer, told Sputnik.

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I, Doctor: AI ChatGPT Almost Passes US Medical Licensing Exam

AI neural network ChatGPT has almost passed the USMLE medical licensing exam used to test the knowledge and skills of physicians and medical students in the United States. It is considered to be an extraordinarily difficult test, usually requiring up to 400 hours of preparation.

The research was published in the prestigious peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS Digital Health.

As the authors of the study noted: "We evaluate[d] the performance of ChatGPT, a non-domain specific LLM, on its ability to perform clinical reasoning by testing its performance on questions from the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)."

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Over 100 Charged as Turkiye Investigates Negligence in Wake of Deadly Earthquakes

At least 14 of those charged with negligence, manslaughter, and building code violations have been arrested as people demand accountability following the horrific earthquakes that left over 28,000 dead in Turkiye and Syria.

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London, Kiev Negotiating Plans for Production of UK Weapons in Ukraine, Media Reports

UK defense industry officials are discussing with their Ukrainian counterparts plans for the production of British weapons in Ukraine, which would mark the deepening of Kiev's ties with both London and NATO, British press reported on Sunday.

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Airspace Restrictions Over Montana Lifted After 'Unidentified Object' Scare

No suspicious objects were detected over the US state of Montana and the airspace restrictions introduced earlier have been lifted, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) says.

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Russia's Relations With Saudi Arabia May Reach Level of Strategic Partnership, Envoy Says

According to Russian Ambassador to Riyadh Sergei Kozlov, the ties between the two nations are on the rise amid their deepening cooperation in the energy sector.

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Turkiye's health minister has released a video of a child being rescued 150 hours after the earthquake. There is always hope, said the minister.

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🇲🇽🇨🇺 Mexico will lead a movement to defend Cuba's sovereignty and lift the US blockade on the country, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday.

🗣 "We will continue to demand the lifting of the blockade from Cuba, it is inhumane... I propose to [Cuban] President Miguel Diaz-Canel that Mexico lead a more active movement, that all countries unite and that Cuba's independence and sovereignty be protected," the Mexican president said at a meeting with his Cuban counterpart.

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Russia is thanked for establishing a field hospital to help victims of the earthquake in Turkiye

- Very good, we are very satisfied. We were very happy that they created a hospital.

- We are very grateful to Russia and the Russians.

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NATO 'Fears UK Too Drained to Take Over Leadership of Rapid Reaction Force'

The United Kingdom is set to inherit the leadership of NATO's rapid reaction force from Germany in late 2023. However, the alliance has asked Berlin to remain at the head of the bloc's force for another year since London is unable to provide the 5,000 soldiers required, a UK newspaper has reported.

"There are serious problems with ammunition shortages and other kit which is partly due to underspending – but also because of the amount of ammo and other ordnance we are supplying to Ukraine. Our forces are also stretched because of the extent to which they are training Ukrainian forces," the media quoted one source as saying.

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📹 Russian airborne assault unit training in rear area of special military operation (video courtesy of Russian MoD)

Experienced instructors conduct exercises in tactical, fire and medical training. The personnel practise moving on the battlefield in pairs and threes. A new type of tactical action was added - frontal movement with live fire, where troops move along the line of contact with the enemy from cover to cover.

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⚡️ Lavrov: US officials admit that they were responsible for Nord Stream explosions.