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Dozens of powerful aftershocks continued to jolt southern Turkey and northern Syria on Tuesday, a day after an earthquake struck the region killing more than 5,000 people and destroying thousands of buildings, as difficult conditions and freezing temperatures hampered rescue efforts.
As the scale of the devastation from the 7.8-magnitude tremor – which was followed by a second, 7.5-magnitude quake later in the day – continued to unfold, the World Health Organization warned the number of fatalities could exceed 20,000.
This morning, Turkey’s vice-president, Fuat Oktay, said 3,419 people had been killed, with a further 20,534 injured. The number of confirmed deaths on the Syrian side of the border rose to 1,602, bringing the death toll in both countries to 5,021. Turkey’s disaster management agency said it had 11,342 reports of collapsed buildings, of which 5,775 had been confirmed.
People in remote towns in southern Turkey described how relief efforts were stretched to breaking point, with destruction over a border region spanning almost 650 miles.
Low-income women in some cities are more likely than their wealthier counterparts to be targeted by Google ads promoting anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers when they search for abortion care, researchers at the Tech Transparency Project have found.
The research builds on previous findings detailing how Google directs users searching for abortion services to “crisis centers” – organizations that have been known to pose as abortion clinics in an attempt to steer women away from accessing abortion care.
For decades, misleading consumers has often been a key part of pregnancy centers’ business model, researchers and advocacy groups found.
