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Turkey And Syria In Search For More Survivors After Death Toll Passes 5,000

(CTN NEWS) – ADANA, Turkey – More victims were discovered Tuesday, bringing the death toll to more than 5,000.
Rescuers hurried to find survivors in the debris of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and numerous aftershocks that slammed eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria.
International organizations sent teams to help with the rescue operations, and according to Turkey’s disaster management agency, there are already around 24,400 emergency workers on the ground.
However, their efforts were dispersed due to the large area affected by the earthquake on Monday and the almost 6,000 buildings reported collapsed in Turkey alone.

Emergency team members and others search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful earthquake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria, and many casualties are feared. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Colder-than-freezing weather and nearly 200 aftershocks made it dangerous to sift through fragile structures to find survivors.
In Antakya, the provincial capital of Hatay, Nurgul Atay told The Associated Press that she could hear her mother’s voice through the debris of a fallen building but that their attempts to enter the wreckage had been fruitless in the absence of rescue teams and heavy machinery.
She remarked, “If only we could lift the concrete slab, we’d be able to get to her.” “My mother, who is 70 years old, won’t be able to endure this for very long.”
Up to 1,500 structures may have been demolished in Hatay Province, which is located immediately southwest of the earthquake’s epicentre, according to officials.
Many people also claimed family members stuck beneath the wreckage without help or rescue crews showing up.

Rescue workers and medics carry a young woman they have rescued from the debris of a collapsed building in Sanliurfa, southern Turkey, late Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.(IHA via AP)
As survivors were pulled out of the rubble throughout the night, cheering occasionally erupted in the areas where teams were working.
Residents of Damascus and Beirut rushed into the streets in response to the earthquake, which was as far away as Cairo and was centred in the province of Kahramanmaras in southeast Turkey.
Doctors Without Borders chief of mission in Syria, Sebastien Gay, reported that medical workers were overflowing northern Syria’s health facilities as they “worked around the clock to respond to the massive numbers of wounded.”
Thousands of people sought refuge in sports facilities or fair halls in the Hatay province of Turkey, while others camped out in the cold around fires.
Large numbers of Turkish soldiers are stationed in the Syrian border area, and the military has been ordered to assist in rescue operations by erecting tents for the homeless and a field hospital in the province of Hatay.

A man searches for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria, and many casualties are feared. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
An Ankara-based humanitarian aid brigade and eight military search and rescue teams, according to Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, have also been sent out.
The port of Iskenderun in the province, where a hospital collapsed, welcomed a navy ship on Tuesday to take survivors who required medical attention to the adjacent city of Mersin.
In another part of the port, where firefighters are still battling to put out a fire that started among shipping containers that were knocked over by the earthquake, thick, black smoke rose.
People sought sanctuary in malls, stadiums, mosques, and community centers in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, the province capital, about 33 kilometers (20 miles) from the epicenter.
According to Turkey’s Vice President Fuat Oktay, there have already been 3,419 fatalities and 20,534 injuries across the country.

People and emergency teams search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria, and many casualties are feared. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
According to the Health Ministry, there have been 812 fatalities and 1,450 injuries in Syria’s government-controlled territories.
At least 790 people were killed, and more than 2,200 people were injured in the northwest of the nation, which is controlled by rebels, according to the opposition’s White Helmets paramedic group, which is in charge of directing rescue efforts.
The overall tally now stands at 5,021.
Authorities worry that as rescuers search through tangles of metal and concrete scattered around the area affected by Syria’s 12-year civil conflict and refugee crisis, the death toll will continue to rise.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he was planning to send a 60-person search and rescue team, medical supplies and 50 soldiers, as soon as possible in the most recent international relief commitments.

A man carries the body of an earthquake victim in the Bosnian village near the Turkish border, Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
The Pakistani government said on Tuesday that there would be daily humanitarian flights to Syria and Turkey starting on Wednesday. The airplane was bringing relief materials and a 50-person search and rescue squad.
India announced it would send two search and rescue teams with trained dogs and medical staff.
24 hours after the devastating earthquake hit Turkiye & Syria, scenes of death & destruction are mind numbing. It breaks the heart to witness sheer scale of unfolding human tragedy. Solidarity should translate into tangible & timely material support for suffering humanity.
— Shehbaz Sharif (@CMShehbaz) February 7, 2023
According to a statement from Islamabad, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would visit Ankara on Wednesday to offer his condolences and support.
President of the United States, Joe Biden, contacted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to offer sympathy and support to the NATO ally. The White House announced that it would assist Turkey’s efforts by deploying teams for search and rescue.
The earthquake added to the region’s severe hardship over the past ten years.

Men search for people among the debris in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
On the Syrian side, the impacted region is split between territory under government control and the final opposition-held outpost encircled by government forces with Russian support. Millions of Syrian refugees have found safety in Turkey.
The opposition emergency group known as the White Helmets stated that hundreds of families were still buried under the rubble in the area held by the rebels.
Approximately 4 million people displaced by the war from other regions of the country are crammed into the area. Many people reside in structures that have already suffered damage from military shelling.
According to rescue workers, injured patients immediately filled up overcrowded hospital facilities. The SAMS medical association claims that some facilities, including maternity, had to be evacuated.
According to Orhan Tatar, a representative of Turkey’s emergency management organization, more than 7,800 persons were saved across 10 provinces.

A young women removes debris from a destroyed building as she searches for people with emergency teams in Gaziantep, Turkey, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. A powerful quake has knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria and many casualties are feared. (AP Photo/Mustafa Karali)
Major fault lines run through the area, which frequently experiences earthquakes. Similarly, strong earthquakes that struck northwest Turkey in 1999 claimed over 18,000 lives.
As determined by the U.S. Geological Survey, the depth of Monday’s earthquake was 18 kilometers (11 miles). A second earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck hours later, more than 100 kilometers (60 miles) away and probably due to the first.
According to a video of the incident, the second shock caused a multistory apartment building in the Turkish city of Sanliurfa to tumble onto the street in a cloud of dust as onlookers shouted.
In a large area stretching from the Aleppo and Hama’s Syrian cities to Diyarbakir, Turkey, more than 330 kilometers (200 miles) to the northeast, thousands of structures were believed to have collapsed.
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Google’s Search Dominance Is Unwinding, But Still Accounting 48% Search Revenue

Google is so closely associated with its key product that its name is a verb that signifies “search.” However, Google’s dominance in that sector is dwindling.
According to eMarketer, Google will lose control of the US search industry for the first time in decades next year.
Google will remain the dominant search player, accounting for 48% of American search advertising revenue. And, remarkably, Google is still increasing its sales in the field, despite being the dominating player in search since the early days of the George W. Bush administration. However, Amazon is growing at a quicker rate.
Google’s Search Dominance Is Unwinding
Amazon will hold over a quarter of US search ad dollars next year, rising to 27% by 2026, while Google will fall even more, according to eMarketer.
The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the forecast.
Lest you think you’ll have to switch to Bing or Yahoo, this isn’t the end of Google or anything really near.
Google is the fourth-most valued public firm in the world. Its market worth is $2.1 trillion, trailing just Apple, Microsoft, and the AI chip darling Nvidia. It also maintains its dominance in other industries, such as display advertisements, where it dominates alongside Facebook’s parent firm Meta, and video ads on YouTube.
To put those “other” firms in context, each is worth more than Delta Air Lines’ total market value. So, yeah, Google is not going anywhere.
Nonetheless, Google faces numerous dangers to its operations, particularly from antitrust regulators.
On Monday, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Google must open up its Google Play Store to competitors, dealing a significant blow to the firm in its long-running battle with Fortnite creator Epic Games. Google announced that it would appeal the verdict.
In August, a federal judge ruled that Google has an illegal monopoly on search. That verdict could lead to the dissolution of the company’s search operation. Another antitrust lawsuit filed last month accuses Google of abusing its dominance in the online advertising business.
Meanwhile, European regulators have compelled Google to follow tough new standards, which have resulted in multiple $1 billion-plus fines.

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Google’s Search Dominance Is Unwinding
On top of that, the marketplace is becoming more difficult on its own.
TikTok, the fastest-growing social network, is expanding into the search market. And Amazon has accomplished something few other digital titans have done to date: it has established a habit.
When you want to buy anything, you usually go to Amazon, not Google. Amazon then buys adverts to push companies’ products to the top of your search results, increasing sales and earning Amazon a greater portion of the revenue. According to eMarketer, it is expected to generate $27.8 billion in search revenue in the United States next year, trailing only Google’s $62.9 billion total.
And then there’s AI, the technology that (supposedly) will change everything.
Why search in stilted language for “kendall jenner why bad bunny breakup” or “police moving violation driver rights no stop sign” when you can just ask OpenAI’s ChatGPT, “What’s going on with Kendall Jenner and Bad Bunny?” in “I need help fighting a moving violation involving a stop sign that wasn’t visible.” Google is working on exactly this technology with its Gemini product, but its success is far from guaranteed, especially with Apple collaborating with OpenAI and other businesses rapidly joining the market.
A Google spokeswoman referred to a blog post from last week in which the company unveiled ads in its AI overviews (the AI-generated text that appears at the top of search results). It’s Google’s way of expressing its ability to profit on a changing marketplace while retaining its business, even as its consumers steadily transition to ask-and-answer AI and away from search.
Google has long used a single catchphrase to defend itself against opponents who claim it is a monopoly abusing its power: competition is only a click away. Until recently, that seemed comically obtuse. Really? We are going to switch to Bing? Or Duck Duck Go? Give me a break.
But today, it feels more like reality.
Google is in no danger of disappearing. However, every highly dominating company faces some type of reckoning over time. GE, a Dow mainstay for more than a century, was broken up last year and is now a shell of its previous dominance. Sears declared bankruptcy in 2022 and is virtually out of business. US Steel, long the foundation of American manufacturing, is attempting to sell itself to a Japanese corporation.
SOURCE | CNN
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The Supreme Court Turns Down Biden’s Government Appeal in a Texas Emergency Abortion Matter.

(VOR News) – A ruling that prohibits emergency abortions that contravene the Supreme Court law in the state of Texas, which has one of the most stringent abortion restrictions in the country, has been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States. The United States Supreme Court upheld this decision.
The justices did not provide any specifics regarding the underlying reasons for their decision to uphold an order from a lower court that declared hospitals cannot be legally obligated to administer abortions if doing so would violate the law in the state of Texas.
Institutions are not required to perform abortions, as stipulated in the decree. The common populace did not investigate any opposing viewpoints. The decision was made just weeks before a presidential election that brought abortion to the forefront of the political agenda.
This decision follows the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that ended abortion nationwide.
In response to a request from the administration of Vice President Joe Biden to overturn the lower court’s decision, the justices expressed their disapproval.
The government contends that hospitals are obligated to perform abortions in compliance with federal legislation when the health or life of an expectant patient is in an exceedingly precarious condition.
This is the case in regions where the procedure is prohibited. The difficulty hospitals in Texas and other states are experiencing in determining whether or not routine care could be in violation of stringent state laws that prohibit abortion has resulted in an increase in the number of complaints concerning pregnant women who are experiencing medical distress being turned away from emergency rooms.
The administration cited the Supreme Court’s ruling in a case that bore a striking resemblance to the one that was presented to it in Idaho at the beginning of the year. The justices took a limited decision in that case to allow the continuation of emergency abortions without interruption while a lawsuit was still being heard.
In contrast, Texas has been a vocal proponent of the injunction’s continued enforcement. Texas has argued that its circumstances are distinct from those of Idaho, as the state does have an exemption for situations that pose a significant hazard to the health of an expectant patient.
According to the state, the discrepancy is the result of this exemption. The state of Idaho had a provision that safeguarded a woman’s life when the issue was first broached; however, it did not include protection for her health.
Certified medical practitioners are not obligated to wait until a woman’s life is in imminent peril before they are legally permitted to perform an abortion, as determined by the state supreme court.
The state of Texas highlighted this to the Supreme Court.
Nevertheless, medical professionals have criticized the Texas statute as being perilously ambiguous, and a medical board has declined to provide a list of all the disorders that are eligible for an exception. Furthermore, the statute has been criticized for its hazardous ambiguity.
For an extended period, termination of pregnancies has been a standard procedure in medical treatment for individuals who have been experiencing significant issues. It is implemented in this manner to prevent catastrophic outcomes, such as sepsis, organ failure, and other severe scenarios.
Nevertheless, medical professionals and hospitals in Texas and other states with strict abortion laws have noted that it is uncertain whether or not these terminations could be in violation of abortion prohibitions that include the possibility of a prison sentence. This is the case in regions where abortion prohibitions are exceedingly restrictive.
Following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which resulted in restrictions on the rights of women to have abortions in several Republican-ruled states, the Texas case was revisited in 2022.
As per the orders that were disclosed by the administration of Vice President Joe Biden, hospitals are still required to provide abortions in cases that are classified as dire emergency.
As stipulated in a piece of health care legislation, the majority of hospitals are obligated to provide medical assistance to patients who are experiencing medical distress. This is in accordance with the law.
The state of Texas maintained that hospitals should not be obligated to provide abortions throughout the litigation, as doing so would violate the state’s constitutional prohibition on abortions. In its January judgment, the 5th United States Circuit Court of Appeals concurred with the state and acknowledged that the administration had exceeded its authority.
SOURCE: AP
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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli, To repay $6.4 Million

Washington — The Supreme Court rejected Martin Shkreli’s appeal on Monday, after he was branded “Pharma Bro” for raising the price of a lifesaving prescription.
Martin appealed a decision to repay $64.6 million in profits he and his former company earned after monopolizing the pharmaceutical market and dramatically raising its price. His lawyers claimed the money went to his company rather than him personally.
The justices did not explain their reasoning, as is customary, and there were no notable dissents.
Prosecutors, conversely, claimed that the firm had promised to pay $40 million in a settlement and that because Martin orchestrated the plan, he should be held accountable for returning profits.
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
Martin was also forced to forfeit the Wu-Tang Clan’s unreleased album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” which has been dubbed the world’s rarest musical album. The multiplatinum hip-hop group auctioned off a single copy of the record in 2015, stipulating that it not be used commercially.
Shkreli was convicted of lying to investors and defrauding them of millions of dollars in two unsuccessful hedge funds he managed. Shkreli was the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals (later Vyera), which hiked the price of Daraprim from $13.50 to $750 per pill after acquiring exclusive rights to the decades-old medicine in 2015. It cures a rare parasite condition that affects pregnant women, cancer patients, and HIV patients.
He defended the choice as an example of capitalism in action, claiming that insurance and other programs ensured that those in need of Daraprim would eventually receive it. However, the move prompted criticism, from the medical community to Congress.
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From ‘Pharma Bro’ Martin Shkreli
Attorney Thomas Huff said the Supreme Court’s Monday ruling was upsetting, but the high court could still overturn a lower court judgment that allowed the $64 million penalty order even though Shkreli had not personally received the money.
“If and when the Supreme Court does so, Mr. Shkreli will have a strong argument for modifying the order accordingly,” he told reporters.
Shkreli was freed from prison in 2022 after serving most of his seven-year sentence.
SOURCE | AP
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