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Ukraine: US President Mr. Joe Biden paid a surprise visit to Kyiv and pledged increased arms delivery and unwavering support for Ukraine prior to the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of the nation. Mr. Biden met Ukrainian President Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky during the US president’s first visit to the nation since Russian troops invaded on 24th February 2022, as air raid sirens wailed around the capital. Military police in uniform from Ukraine lined the street outside. While a military salute sounded and the two presidents stared at each other in silence for a little while, Mr. Biden and Zelensky crossed the…

Brazil:  Torrential rain caused flooding and landslides that resulted in at least 36 fatalities and hundreds of displaced people on the southeast coast of Brazil. In the state of Sao Paulo, footage from the town of Sao Sebastiao was broadcast on television and shared on social media. It showed entire neighbourhoods submerged in water, the wreckage of houses on hillsides being carried away by mud, flooded roads, and automobiles being hit by falling trees. The town, which is 200 kilometres (124 miles) north of Sao Paulo and where many residents of the capital spend the long weekend before the Christian…

China: A new report published by the XDI Cross Dependency Initiative has stated that China is home to more than three-quarters of the regions most at risk from climate change, with some of the world’s most important manufacturing centres threatened by extreme weather. According to the report, China’s eastern Jiangsu province ranks as the world’s most climate-vulnerable region, followed by Shandong, Hebei, and Henan. In total, China is home to 16 of the world’s 20 most at-risk regions. “We’re already feeling the significant impacts of weather events around the world, and they will only increase. Finally, we just want to…

United States: The US Secretary of State Mr. Antony Blinken has visited Hatay, one of the provinces worst affected by the February 6 earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria, and offered a further $100 million in aid to help the region. The visit came after Turkey ended rescue efforts in all provinces except the two hardest hit by the earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people. The disaster agency’s chief Mr. Yunus Sezer recently commented that “in many of our provinces, search and rescue efforts have been completed. They continue in Kahramanmaras and Hatay provinces.” Earlier, US President…

United States: Facebook users and Instagram will soon have to pay to be verified on the social media platforms as Meta follows rival platform Twitter. The service will launch in Australia and New Zealand later this week, according to Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, who made the announcement in a Facebook post. According to the company, a monthly subscription would cost $11.9 on the web or $14.99 on iOS and Android (or $19.99 on the web or $24.99 on iOS and Android in Australia). According to Mr. Zuckerberg, the service will also provide “extra impersonation protection,” improved reach for verified…

South Korea: The South Korean military has accused North Korea of firing two ballistic missiles off its east coast, as Mr. Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of the North’s leader Mr. Kim Jong-un, warned the nuclear-armed state could turn the Pacific into a “firing range.” The launches came just two days after North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) into the sea off Japan’s west coast, prompting the United States to hold joint air exercises with South Korea and separately with Japan. Ms. Yo-jong warned against the increased presence of US strategic assets on the Korean peninsula after joint…

Turkey: The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Administration (AFAD) reports that search and rescue activities have come to an end in the majority of regions about two weeks after this month’s deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake that also hit neighbouring Syria and southeast Turkey killed over 45,000 people, left over a million homeless, and is likely to have a billion-dollar economic impact on 6th February 2023. More than 5,800 deaths in Syria have been documented, primarily in the northwest. Since several days ago, the amount has not changed. According to the World Health Organization, over 26 million…

London, UK: The Prime Minister’s efforts to negotiate a deal with Brussels over the Northern Ireland Protocol have put Mr. Rishi Sunak and Mr. Boris Johnson at odds. The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill, which provides ministers with the authority to rip up portions of the protocol and disregard EU standards, is being abandoned by Mr. Sunak, and the former Prime Minister is vehemently opposed to this. Senior government sources indicated that if a settlement is reached on the protocol, the measure that Mr. Johnson sponsored while he was prime minister would be unnecessary. Several pro-Brexit Conservative MPs have also warned…

China: China’s top diplomat accuses the United States of breaking international standards with “hysterical” behaviour when a long-running dispute about a suspected Chinese spy balloon came to the surface at a global security conference in Munich. President Mr. Joe Biden’s administration has a “misguided” impression of Beijing, according to Mr. Wrang Yi, who addressed a group of world leaders at the Munich Security Conference, and he charged that the US was attempting to “smear” the Asian power as it was enacting laws that went against its own ideals, including free trade. Since a massive white Chinese balloon was sighted above…

Netherland: A new study discovered that a child’s facial features may change permanently after just one glass of alcohol every week during pregnancy, and it’s possible that their cognitive ability will as well. Using 3D imagery and a deep learning algorithm, Dutch researchers examined 200 features in the faces of more than 5,600 school-aged youngsters. They discovered disparities between the children of moms who used alcohol while pregnant and those whose mothers did not. Drinking just 12 grams of alcohol a week or one standard drink was linked to permanent alterations in the child’s face. Prenatal alcohol intake was linked…