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  • Turkey-Syria earthquake instills hope; survivors found after 100 hrs

    Turkey-Syria earthquake instills hope; survivors found after 100 hrs

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    Although it has been four days since the two powerful earthquakes that shook southern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday, February 6, hope for survivors is still not lost, as many people have survived under the rubble, even after waiting for help for more than 100 hours.

    The camera lenses have documented remarkable rescue stories that have been described as miraculous, and below are some of these highlight stories.

    On Friday, Anadolu Agency and TRT Haber Canli’s account on Twitter published a set of videos documenting the rescue operations of survivors of the devastating earthquake after 100 hours.

    Anadolu Agency wrote in a tweet, “60-year-old man was pulled out alive from the rubble of a collapsed building, in another miraculous rescue in southern Turkey 104 hours after powerful earthquakes shook the region.”

    In another tweet, Anadolu Agency wrote, “A toddler and his seven-year-old brother are rescued from the debris in Hatay province 105 hours after earthquakes shake southern Turkey.”

    A 32-years-old man was pulled out alive from under the rubble of a collapsed building after 100 hours had passed in Hatay province.

    3.5-year-old Zeynep Ela was pulled out from debris in Hatay province, 103 hours after earthquakes shook Turkey.

    A newborn baby and her mother was pulled alive from quake debris in Turkey.

    A 30-year-old Turkish civil engineer was pulled out after 101 hours.

    A mother and her son were pulled out in Diyarbakir and another person in Hatay from under the rubble 100 hours after the earthquake.

    It is noteworthy that the two earthquakes that struck southern Turkey, on Monday, were of magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 on the Richter scale.

    According to the Turkish Disaster Management Authority, 19,388, bodies have been recovered from under the rubble so far, while 3,162 bodies have been officially counted in Syria, bringing the death toll to 20,296.



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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Azerbaijan offers its hospitals for treating survivors of Turkey-Syria quake

    Azerbaijan offers its hospitals for treating survivors of Turkey-Syria quake

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    Baku: Hospitals in Azerbaijan are ready to receive those injured in the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria this week, President Ilham Aliyev announced here.

    “Our hospitals have all the conditions for the treatment of our wounded brothers and sisters,” said the President, as he visited the Turkish Embassy in Baku on Wednesday to offer his condolences, reports Xinhua news agency.

    “Beds have already been allocated in Baku and other cities, including the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, and if necessary, we are ready to bring in patients,” Aliyev told the Turkish Ambassador after signing a book of condolence at the mission.

    He said doctors, rescuers, and volunteers are being sent to Turkey, and humanitarian aid campaigns are launched by ordinary people, public organizations, and private companies in Azerbaijan to help those affected by the quakes.

    “The people of Azerbaijan voluntarily bring whatever they have to support their brothers. Someone brings a blanket, someone brings a mattress, and someone else brings a coat. People are ready to share whatever they have,” he said.

    Azerbaijan has deployed rapid response search and rescue units, totaling more than 700 people, to earthquake-hit regions of Turkey, according to emergency authorities.

    More than 200 Azerbaijanis have been evacuated from Turkey since the earthquake struck on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said.

    As of Thursday, the overall death toll in Turkey and Syria rose to 15,383.

    Turkey has reported 12,391 fatalities, with 62,914 others injured, while in Syria, there were at least 2,992 deaths and nearly 5,040 injuries.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • ‘Should I keep working hard?’: Google layoff survivors ask top bosses

    ‘Should I keep working hard?’: Google layoff survivors ask top bosses

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    New York: Employees, who survived the recent layoffs at Google, are worried and have demanded assurances that their jobs are not next to be axed by the company during a recent all-hands meeting with top bosses.

    As Google’s parent company Alphabet chopped six per cent of its workforce globally, an employee based in the UK told management that “psychological safety is paramount”, the New York Post reported.

    The employee, who had trouble processing the news like many of his colleagues, said: “How are we supposed to ever feel safe again?”

    According to the report, most of the 12,000 people, including Indians, axed by the tech giant were high performers and people on immigration visas.

    The professionals with an H-1B visa will have to leave the country in 60 days if they are unable to find another alternative to sustain.

    “Should I keep working super hard? Does it matter?” another employee wondered.

    Among those who were handed pink slips were employees who “had previously received high performance reviews” or had annual compensation packages of $500,000 to $1 million.

    “The layoffs seem random,” one employee wrote in a question that was submitted to top Google executives via the company’s internal messaging system, the Post reported.

    Denying that the layoffs were done “randomly”, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai had said earlier that he is “deeply sorry” for reducing the workforce.

    In an email to employees, Pichai said he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”.

    In the US, Google will pay employees during the full notification period (minimum 60 days) and also offer a severance package starting at 16 weeks salary, plus two weeks for every additional year at Google, and accelerate at least 16 weeks of GSU (Google stock) vesting.

    The layoffs at Google’s parent company were expected amid the deepening funding winter that has hit companies of all sizes in the global slowdown and recession fears.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )