Factors such as government support and diverse talent pools are crucial to attracting investment

and new business opportunities in the Emirate.

But core to what keeps people in Abu Dhabi is how easily they are able to create a new

home, both professionally and personally.

A major earthquake leaves more than a thousand people dead in Turkey in Syria.

Plus, Ukraine warns Russia is planning a major offensive.

Russia is definitely banking on the idea that it is now seizing the initiative, taking

the momentum and President Putin of Russia can show the Russian public some real results

on the anniversary of a war that it initially at least completely messed up.

And investors take a shine to gold as one miner offers billions to buy another.

It is Monday, February 6th on Peter Grannitz covering for Luke Vargas with the Wall Street

Journal and here's the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories

moving your world today.

At least 1300 people have died after an earthquake shook southern Turkey and northern Syria

early Monday.

Turkish officials have already appealed for international help.

Jared Malsin, a Middle East correspondent for the Journal based in Istanbul, says the

region struck by the earthquake is home to millions of people displaced by the Syrian

civil war and the worst damage could be inside Syria.

These are people living in makeshift camps, in buildings that might not be very well constructed

with very limited medical infrastructure, hospitals that are already overloaded.

So it's a very severe crisis in both countries and we are only hours into this.

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