SUMMARY - Monday, February 6, 2023 - 5 p.m.

BRATISLAVA - Slovakia is sending ten members of the Fire and Rescue Corps (HaZZ) from the Zilina Rescue Brigade and five mountain rescuers along with specially trained dogs to Turkey, spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry Zuzana Eliasova told TASR on Monday, adding that the ministry's units will search, rescue and help people affected by the earthquake in the country. BRATISLAVA - I'm glad that Slovakia joined the aid for Turkey and will send firefighters and rescuers to the regions affected by the earthquake, President Zuzana Caputova posted on a social network on Monday. BRATISLAVA - The Interior Ministry had registered 95 cases in which states of emergency have been declared due to heavy snowfalls as of Monday morning, the ministry's press department has confirmed for TASR. KOSICE - U.S. Steel Kosice together with its subsidiaries, recorded earnings before interest and tax of $444 million (€405.9 million) last year, down $531 million (€485.5 million) year-on-year (y-o-y), the Kosice steelworks reported on its website based on the data published by its parent company U.S. Steel. BRATISLAVA - Outgoing Czech President Milos Zeman will arrive for a three-day farewell visit to Slovakia on Monday. BRATISLAVA – This year's January in Slovakia was one of the most extreme in the history of meteorological measurements in terms of high temperatures, for example, the lowest number of frosty days in recent years was recorded, the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU) reports on its website. BRATISLAVA - Protecting journalists, lawsuits aimed at the media in order to intimidate them and protecting the independence of editorial offices will be high on the agenda of an international conference called 'Media Freedom 2023', due to take place in Bratislava on February 20, the day before the fifth anniversary of the murders of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kusnirova. am