The number of victims of a powerful earthquake in Turkey has reached 38,044, the disaster management agency (AFAD) reported.
“The death toll from last week’s powerful earthquakes in southern Turkey has reached 38,044 people,” AFAD cited Anadolu Agency as saying.
Earlier, 35,418 deaths were reported.
“Al Jazeera” reports that the death toll in Syria is still 5.8 thousand, so the number of earthquake victims in both countries exceeded 43.8 thousand.
According to the channel, another earthquake occurred on Friday night in southern Turkey in Hatay province: this time with a magnitude of 5.1.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 occurred in Turkey on the night of February 6, followed by a series of aftershocks, one of which had a magnitude of 7.6. These tremors caused serious destruction and casualties in the country, as well as in neighboring Syria.
In January this year, scrap metal dealers reduced scrap procurement by 75.6% compared to the same period last year to 60.5 thousand tons from 248.1 thousand tons.
As reported in the operational information of the Ukrainian Association of Secondary Metals (UAVtormet) on Friday, the export of scrap metal during this period amounted to 8.3 thousand tons compared to 5.8 thousand tons in January 2022 (an increase of 43.1%). At the same time, there were no imports of scrap, while in the first month of last year it was 0.1 thousand tons.
Scrap shipments to the country’s metal companies in January-2023 decreased by 78.1% compared to January-2022 to 49.4 thousand tons from 226 thousand tons.
As of February 1, 2023, the level of scrap metal stock at metal companies in Ukraine was estimated at 20-25 thousand tons.
As reported earlier by UAVtormet, Ukraine in 2022, reduced the procurement of scrap metal by 75.9% compared to the previous year – up to 996.7 thousand tons from 4.136 million tons. The export of scrap metal last year was 53.6 thousand tons, which is 11.5 times less than in 2021 (615.7 thousand tons). At the same time, imports of scrap amounted to 1.8 thousand tons, compared to 23 thousand tons in 2021.
Scrap shipments to metal companies in the country in 2022 decreased by 73% compared to 2021 – to 895.7 thousand tons from 3 million 323.4 thousand tons.
“UAVtormet” predicts a decrease in the procurement of scrap ferrous metals to 820 – 850 thousand tons this year. In addition, it is predicted that in 2023, the supply of scrap metal to metal companies in the country will be reduced to 720-750 thousand tons. Scrap exports are expected to amount to 80-120 thousand tons. Steel production in 2023 will be 3.6-3.8 million tons.
Ukraine was excluded from the list of countries in which the use of chatbots with artificial intelligence ChatGPT developer OpenAl, after which the product became available to Ukrainian users, said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov in Telegram.
“ChatGPT is now available in Ukraine. The team of the Ministry of Digital Transformation worked on this solution for a long time – official letters, calls and meetings with the management. And finally, we managed to correct an injustice,” Fedorov pointed out.
The program will not work in the temporarily occupied territories of Russia, so that enemies will not use it for anti-Ukrainian propaganda, Fedorov specified. “ChatGPT has an excellent command of the Ukrainian language, unlike the Russians,” he noted.
The head of the Ministry of Digital Economy thanked the developer company OpenAI and advisor to the head of the Office of the President, President of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) Timofey Milovanov for his assistance in solving the problem.
Earlier it was reported that Ukraine was included in the sanctions list of countries, the use of ChatGPT in which was prohibited. The list also includes Russia, Belarus and Iran. The reasons for this selection were not reported.
At the same time, as indicated in the media, Ukrainian users found more than five ways to bypass the blocking, in particular by using foreign SIM cards of foreign mobile operators, using VPNs, changing the country binding in Google, using extensions for the Google Chrome browser.
ChatGPT rapidly gained popularity on the Internet after its launch in late November 2022: the number of chatbot users reached 100 million in the first two months of its existence. Its ability to mimic human conversation has sparked speculation that it could replace professional writers and even threaten Google’s search business, Bloomberg wrote. Chat is capable of generating texts of any size and HTML markup code, as well as responding to queries in a human-like manner, maintaining a dialogue and answering follow-up questions.
KSE has already opened enrollment in a free workshop on using ChatGPT and is considering a full training course, Milovanov wrote on his Facebook page.
Microsoft has already invested about $1 billion in OpenAI. The company is also working to incorporate ChatGPT chatbots into its Bing search engine.
Ukraine in January 2023 decreased imports of coal and anthracite (HS code 2701) in 48.1 times (by 1 million 805.902 thousand tons) compared to the same period in 2022 – up to 38.318 thousand tons.
According to the State Customs Service, the coal was imported for $13.605 million, which is 31.3 times less than in January 2022 ($426.314 million).
Coal from Australia came to $7.92 million (58.21%), Poland – $5.627 million (41.36%), South Africa – $0.058 million (0.43%).
Ukraine’s exports of coal in January 2023 amounted to 51,453 thousand tons worth $15.151 million, including to Slovakia – $10.09 million, Poland – $2.041 million, Austria – $1.994 million and other countries – $1.026 million.
As reported, Ukraine in 2022, reduced imports of coal and anthracite in 4.2 times (14 million 932.904 thousand tons) compared to 2021 – up to 4 million 630.144 thousand tons.
Coal was imported for $1 billion 179.113 million, which is 2.1 times less than in 2021 ($2 billion 488.698 million). The Russian Federation received $431.082 million worth of coal (pre-war supplies, a 36.56% share of imports), the United States $309.178 million (26.22%), Australia $199.491 million (16.92%), and other countries $239.363 million (20.3%).
Ukraine in January this year reduced the export of semi-finished carbon steel products in physical terms by 92.1% compared to the same period last year – to 38,341 thousand tons.
According to statistics released by the State Customs Service (SCS), in monetary terms, exports of semi-finished carbon steel products in January 2022 declined by 93% – to $20.897 million.
The main export was carried out to Poland (54.20% of supplies in money terms), Denmark (24.91%) and Italy (11.31%).
In January-2023, Ukraine did not import any semi-finished products, whereas in January-2022 it imported 2.606 thousand tons of these products for $1.546 million. Imports were carried out from Russia (100% of supplies).
As reported, in 2022, Ukraine reduced the export of semifinished products of carbon steel in physical terms by 72% compared to the previous year – to 1 million 899.729 tons, in monetary terms by 70.9% – to $ 1 billion 191.279 million. The main export was carried out in Bulgaria (26.55% of supplies in monetary terms), Poland (13.97%) and Italy (12.13%).
In addition, Ukraine imported 5.558 thousand tons of similar products in 2022, which is 85.7% less than in 2021. In monetary terms, imports decreased by 86% – to $3.634 million. Imports were carried out from the Russian Federation (96.92% of supplies – before the war), China (1.84%) and Romania (1.21%).
Structure of registered unemployed as of 12.01.2022 by age group
Source: Open4Business.com.ua and experts.news
