February 13, 2023: U.S. shoots down flying object, China balloon, Turkey earthquake, Ukraine, Russia

February 13, 2023: U.S. shoots down flying object, China high-altitude balloon, Turkey earthquake, Ukraine, Americans in Russia

1. U.S. military fighter jets on Sunday shot down an octagonal object over Lake Huron, the Pentagon said, the latest incident since a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon put North American security forces on high alert.

2. China said that U.S. high altitude balloons had flown over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the beginning of 2022, drawing a swift denial from Washington.

3. Rescuers in Turkey pulled out several people alive from collapsed buildings and were digging to reach a grandmother, mother and daughter from a single family, a week after the country's worst earthquake in modern history.

4. The city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine was coming heavy Russian artillery fire as Ukrainian forces there braced for possible ground attacks, Ukrainian military officials said.

5. The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies.

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