• The business secretary ordered a full national security assessment of the acquisition of the country's biggest Semiconductor maker by a Dutch subsidiary of China's Wingtech. There were reports in April that the British government would not intervene in the deal. A government spokesman said at the time that no decisions had been made.

  • Russian forces carried out 3 raids in the Mykolayiv and Kherson regions. The Operational Command is from the South. During the day, the enemy's manpower was reduced by 20 Ruscists.

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  • The Japanese military said Thursday that they had conducted a joint fighter jet flight over the Sea of Japan. Four U.S. F-16 fighters and four Japanese F-15s were involved in the Japan-U.S. joint flight on Wednesday. The flight occurred hours after North Korea fired three missiles, including an intercontinental missile, toward the sea between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.

  • The U.S. requested that Israel allow Berlin to sell anti-tank missiles to Ukraine with Israeli technology under an Israeli license, according to a report.

  • Western countries such as Germany must overcome reluctance to supply Ukraine with modern weapons as Kyiv risks running out of stocks in the war with Russia, according to a lawmaker. She said that Moscow had more of the weapons built by the Soviets than the Ukrainians.

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  • The world's food supply is in danger because of the blockade.

  • The construction of an additional defence line and the regrouping of Russian troops in the Kherson region suggest that Russia is intending to gain.

  • In Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian invaders moved an echelon of obsolete T-62 tanks to Melitopol, as well as 30 units of military equipment to the village of Kyrylivka.

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  • The German gas lobby was dealt a blow by the decision of Gerhard Schroeder to back out of his role at Russian energy giant Gazprom. The energy bond between the countries was established by the former German chancellor. Following a lot of criticism, the board of Russia's state-owned oil company said that Schroeder was stepping down.

  • The Investigation Bureau of Taiwan said on Thursday that it had raided ten Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting chip engineers and other tech talent. Taiwan, home to the world's most advanced chip manufacturing capacity, has stepped up a campaign to counter illegal Chinese companies in what the island sees as a threat to its chip expertise. The bureau raided 10 Chinese companies and their R&D centers in Taiwan without approval.

  • The Biden Commerce Department is making us dependent on foreign oil.

  • ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Ankara observed a positive attitude towards lifting of an arms exports embargo during talks with delegations from NATO applicants.

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  • The German Chancellor expressed hopes for global cooperation on climate change, hunger and war, while dozens of climate activists demonstrated in the Swiss town of Davos as a meeting of global elites ended with many words but little concrete action to solve the world's most pressing crises. Voicing hopes for countries to work together on shared crises, Scholz said today's world is not as divided as it was during the Cold War era.

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  • A senior U.S. administration official said that a joint strategic bomber exercise by Russia and China in East Asia shows the depth of their alignment. Russian Tu-95 and Chinese Xian H6 strategic bombers took part in a 13 hour patrol over the Japanese and East China seas. The Russian and Chinese jets were shadowed by planes from the Japanese and South Korean air forces.

  • The United States pushed Russia closer to a historic debt default on Wednesday by not extending its license to pay bondholders, as Washington ramps up pressure following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The license which expired at 12:01 a.m. was let lapse by the U.S. Treasury Department. Russia was allowed to make interest and maturity payments on its debt to the U.S.

  • Photographs and memories are what Kateryna Shelipova has left to remember her husband of 36 years. He asked Kateryna to forgive him during his trial. She says she saw Shishimarin holding an automatic rifle when she left the yard. I saw him lying here when I went further out. Kateryna still has the bicycle her husband was riding when he was killed. Ukrainian state prosecutors said he had been ordered to shoot at him from a car. It hurts a lot. I still can't believe that he's dead. I still think that he will come here and say "Good day" or "Hello", despite Shishimarin. It hurts. It hurts. That is it.

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  • Oleksandr Kobets, the pseudo-mayor of occupied Kherson, had previously worked for the KGB.

  • The European Commission wants to make it a crime to break European Union sanctions against Russia. In 12 EU countries, breaking EU sanctions on Russia is now a criminal offense. Justice Commissioner Reynders said that it is either an administrative or criminal offence in 13 and two of them treat it only as an administrative offence.

  • Turkey objected to the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO. Analysts say issues from Kurdish militant to canceled arms deals underlie the stance of the Turkish president.