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February 6, 2023

Headlines for February 6, 2023

  • 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake Rattles Turkey and Syria, Killing 1,700+ as Death Toll Keeps Mounting
  • Pentagon Downs Chinese Balloon, Blinken Cancels China Trip as Beijing Accuses U.S. of Overreacting
  • Israeli Forces Kill 5 Palestinians in West Bank as Mass Protests Against Israeli Gov't Continue
  • Iranian Supreme Leader Pardons Some Jailed Protesters as Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Released on Bail
  • Iraqi Rights Groups Demand Women's Rights Legislation After "Honor Killing" of 22-Year-Old YouTuber
  • Prominent Iraqi Environmentalist Jassim Al-Asadi Kidnapped Near Baghdad
  • Pervez Musharraf, Ex-President of Pakistan and Ally in George W. Bush's "War on Terror," Dead at 79
  • Refugees Drown in Shipwrecks Off Coasts of Greece and Italy
  • U.K. Medical Workers Stage Largest Strike in History of National Health Service
  • At Least 24 Killed in Chile as Summer Heat Fans Wildfires
  • Cold Snap Brings Record Wind Chill to Eastern U.S. and Canada
  • South Carolina Will Hold First Presidential Primary of DNC's Revamped Calendar
  • The Innocence Project Demands Missouri Call Off Execution of Leonard "Raheem" Taylor
  • Shervin Hajipour, Who Wrote Iranian Protest Anthem, Honored at Grammy Awards

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