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Death toll after Turkish-Syrian earthquakes rises to more than 4,200

More than 4,200 people died following devastating earthquakes on the Turkish-Syrian border in Syria and Turkey according to the latest information by Turkish authorities in the early hours of Tuesday.Yunus Sezer, the head of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), gave the number of dead in Turkey at 2,921, while 15,834 others were injured. In Syria, at least 1,300 people were killed, according...

Earthquake of magnitude 7.9 strikes central Turkey

Stein explained that the first is about a 20% cut to the domestic discretionary budget, a "forward-looking domestic spending freeze." Republicans are also demanding they "rescind Biden IRS boost, claw back covid aid, secure new border wall funding, and add Medicaid work requirements."Rampell explained that the first two parts are this mistaken belief often pitched by Republicans but "wouldn't affect deficits much" as they...

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The vote gave formal approval to a proposal first put forward by the Rules and Bylaws Committee in early December, which came after a year of presentations from state candidates. It also fulfilled a desire by President Joe Biden to emphasize South Carolina and Nevada over New Hampshire and Iowa, whose populations are majority white. “We can’t go back in time to fix...

Heat-Related Deaths Are Rising. Here’s How Cities Can Keep Residents Safer

Living in a city sometimes feels like living in the future. Urban life can mean exposure to new technologies, new ideas—and, sometimes, previews of the temperatures coming soon to nearby regions. In Europe, during hot periods, cities are an average of 2.7°F (1.5°C) warmer than surrounding areas, according to research published Jan. 31 in the Lancet. That amount may sound small, but scientists have...

Pro-Western, retired general Pavel sweeps Czech presidential vote

By Robert Muller and Jan LopatkaPRAGUE (Reuters) -Former army chief and high NATO official Petr Pavel won the Czech Republic's presidential election on Saturday with a pledge to keep the country firmly anchored in the West and bridge society's political differences. Pavel, a 61-year-old retired general running for office for the first time, won 58.3% of the vote with all voting districts reporting final results,...
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