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A baby girl who was born under the rubble caused by an earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey receives treatment inside an incubator at a children's hospital in the town of Afrin in Syria's Aleppo province on Tuesday. Residents in a northwest Syrian town discovered a crying infant whose mother gave birth to her while buried underneath the rubble of a five-story apartment building.

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A newborn was found alive in the rubble after the earthquake in Syria

1:51pm February 07, 2023

by The Associated Press

Residents digging through a collapsed building discovered a crying infant whose mother appears to have given birth to her while buried underneath the rubble. The mother and other family members died.

A man searches for people in the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaziantep, Turkey, on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023.

Here's what we know about what caused the Turkey earthquake

11:23am February 07, 2023

Seismologists say Monday's earthquake took place in a complex junction of faults that was long overdue for a big one. The destructive shaking was spread across many kilometers.

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Oleksandr Fedun, 24, holds onto railings as he practices walking on his prostheses at Medical Center Orthotics & Prosthetics (MCOP) in Silver Spring, Md., on Thursday. MCOP is working with several charities and organizations to help fit Ukrainian soldiers with prostheses after they've been injured in combat.

Ukrainian soldiers benefit from U.S. prosthetics expertise but their war is different

10:43am February 07, 2023

by Quil Lawrence

A prosthetics clinic that once served mostly American military veterans is now helping Ukrainian amputees get state of the art prostheses.

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Incense sticks are placed at a monument to honor massacre victims in Vietnam.

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In a first, South Korea must compensate a Vietnam War massacre survivor

9:55am February 07, 2023

by Anthony Kuhn

Nguyen Thi Thanh was 7 years old in 1968 when she says South Korean marines killed five of her family members and shot her in the stomach.

Rescue teams are conducting search and rescue operations in Diyarbakir and other parts of southeastern Turkey that were hit by powerful earthquakes on Monday. Anyone claiming to predict quakes, a seismologist tells NPR, is making "scattershot" predictions.

No, you can't predict earthquakes, the USGS says

8:27am February 07, 2023

by Bill Chappell

If someone who predicts an earthquake seems to get it right, it's basically like a broken clock that's right twice a day, a USGS seismologist tells NPR.

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At least 2,800 people have died in an earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria

10:14pm February 06, 2023

by Peter Kenyon

At least 2,800 people have died in a massive earthquake in southern Turkey and Syria, with thousands of buildings destroyed — and rescue workers rushing to help being hindered by poor weather.

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The suspected Chinese spy balloon drifts to the ocean after being shot down off the coast in Surfside Beach, S.C., on Saturday.

This wasn't the first Chinese balloon over the U.S. Why were the others ignored?

7:40pm February 06, 2023

by Greg Myre

Chinese surveillance balloons have flown over the U.S. at least four times in recent years. But the U.S. didn't learn about these cases until the intelligence community discovered them afterwards.

Antarctic cruises are rising in popularity, though 4 Americans recently died on them

6:49pm February 06, 2023

by Greg Allen

The U.S. Coast Guard and National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the deaths of four Americans on cruises to Antarctica, highlighting the perils of these increasingly popular cruises.

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Why the earthquake caused so much damage in Turkey, despite being long overdue

6:49pm February 06, 2023

by Geoff Brumfiel

A devastating earthquake has struck southern Turkey and Northern Syria. It's a seismically active part of the world known for big quakes.

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Rescue workers carry a boy they recovered from the rubbles of a building after an earthquake in Dana, a town in rebel-held Idlib, early Monday morning.

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Northern Syria has endured years of war. Now, an earthquake has added to the despair

6:38pm February 06, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

Since the civil war began in 2011, Syria's northern region has been beset by crisis after crisis. Monday's devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake was "the last thing people need," one aid worker said.