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Sweden will officially join NATO today after submitting its application to the US government.

Ukraine urgently needs decisive and systematic decisions from its allies to provide sufficient artillery ammunition, not just feverish discussions.

During his visit to Washington, D. C., German Economy Minister Robert Habeck called on the United States to provide Ukraine with more financial assistance.

For the first time in 13 months, Tesla Inc. fell out of the top 10 most expensive US companies by market capitalization, giving way to Visa Inc.

U. S. lawmakers have launched an investigation into whether SpaceX is taking adequate security measures to prevent Russia's illegal use of the Starlink satellite Internet service in Ukraine, raising concerns about potential sanctions violations.

An explosion occurred at the Severstal metallurgical plant in the Vologda region of russia, which the authorities called a drone attack. However, the company reported a "technical incident" at the plant.

The sanctioned Russian tanker Lisnychny Prospect docked in the Chinese port of Huanghua to unload 700,000 barrels of Russian Sokol oil, despite US sanctions against the vessel.

Sweden will officially join the NATO Alliance on March 7, 2024, becoming the 32nd ally.

Japan is seriously concerned about closer military cooperation between China and Russia in light of its own security and that of the region.

russia summoned the head of the US diplomatic mission in moscow and warned of alleged US interference in russia's internal affairs through educational and cultural organizations, threatening to expel the staff involved and stop such actions.

Romania, Spain, Luxembourg, and Belgium joined 23 other parliaments in signing an open letter to U. S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calling for a vote on a $60 billion aid bill for Ukraine.

Changing the rules for disclosing banking secrecy will undermine confidence in the entire banking system, says Concorde Bank co-founder Sosedka.

Three sailors were killed in a Houthi missile attack on the merchant ship True Confidence in the Gulf of Aden. This is the first time that Houthi attacks on ships have killed people.

China's Foreign Minister accused the US of suppressing China, promised to deepen ties with Russia, and emphasized the importance of a "multipolar world order" not dominated by US hegemony.

Eight teenagers aged 15-17 were wounded in a shooting at a bus stop in Philadelphia. They were shot by three men who fled the scene.

The White House respects the decision of Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska and Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, to refuse to participate in US President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

China accuses the United States of misperceiving it and failing to fulfill the promises made during the Biden-Xi meeting, while updating its methods of suppressing China.

The U. S. Department of State and the German Marshall Fund of the United States have announced the creation of the Ukraine Cities Partnership, a new public-private initiative to help redevelop and rebuild sustainable, inclusive, and resilient Ukrainian cities.

Tonight, Biden will deliver his State of the Union address, in which he plans to urge lawmakers to immediately pass a bill to help Ukraine.

The Biden administration is considering using about $200 million in U. S. military funding to provide immediate support to Ukraine as a larger aid package is stalled in Congress.

On March 7, 1876, American inventor Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the world's first telephone, which revolutionized communication and changed the course of human history.

Kim Jong-un personally led large-scale military exercises, including the storming of border posts. He urged the army to prepare for war amid annual joint US-South Korean military exercises, which led to an escalation of tensions with South Korea.

According to U. S. officials, the attack targeted the Barbados-flagged cargo ship True Confidence, which belongs to Liberia.

Armenia said that its border troops should be fully deployed at the Zvartnots International Airport in Yerevan, and it informed the Russian side of this.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has announced that she is suspending her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

U. S. congressmen from both parties have called on the Pentagon to provide Ukraine with ATACMS missiles to help defend itself against Russia.

The Swedish prime minister visits Washington on the eve of the submission of final NATO membership documents to complete the two-year process of Sweden's accession to the military alliance.

Nikki Haley is expected to drop out of the Republican presidential race and clear the way for former President Donald Trump.

Olena Zelenska says that she and her husband, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, live parallel lives because of their busy schedules and can only meet for a few hours about once a week.

The UK proposes to use frozen Russian assets as collateral for a loan or bond to provide financing to Ukraine, with the expectation that they will be reimbursed when Russia pays reparations.