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> EU defence and foreign ministers backed an initiative aimed at providing Ukraine with one million artillery shells in the next 12 months as well as replenishing EU stocks during a meeting held in Brussels on Monday.

> Ukraine had told the EU it wants 350,000 shells a month to help its troops hold back Moscow's onslaught and allow them to launch fresh counteroffensives later in the year.

> Ukraine became the world's number three importer of arms in 2022 after Russia's invasion triggered a big flow of military aid to Kyiv from the United States and Europe, according to Swedish think-tank SIPRI. The US Department of State also announced on Monday that the US will send Ukraine $350m in weapons and equipment, including various types of ammunition, such as rockets, and an undisclosed number of fuel tanker trucks and riverine boats.


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> Book publishers and the Internet Archive will face off today in a hearing that could determine the future of library ebooks - deciding whether libraries must rely on the often temporary digital licenses that publishers offer or whether they can scan and lend copies of their own tomes.

> In a response, the Internet Archive says it's received around $5,500 total in affiliate revenue and that its digital scanning service is separate from the Open Library.

> Digital rights organization Fight for the Future has supported the Internet Archive with a campaign called Battle for Libraries, arguing that the lawsuit threatens the ability of libraries to hold their own digital copies of books.


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> What readers - and indeed the peer reviewers who cleared it for publication - did not know was that the paper itself had been written by the controversial AI chatbot ChatGPT. "We wanted to show that ChatGPT is writing at a very high level," said Prof Debby Cotton, director of academic practice at Plymouth Marjon University, who pretended to be the paper's lead author.

> He said academics could still look for clues that a student had used ChatGPT. Perhaps the biggest of these is that it does not properly understand academic referencing - a vital part of written university work - and often uses "Suspect" references, or makes them up completely.

> Bristol University is one of a number of academic institutions to have issued new guidance for staff on how to detect that a student has used ChatGPT to cheat.


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> WASHINGTON: Iran has agreed to halt covert weapons shipments to its Houthi allies in Yemen as part of a China-brokered deal to re-establish diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

> One Saudi official told WSJ that the kingdom expects Iran to respect a UN arms embargo meant to prevent weapons from reaching the Houthis.

> "A cutoff of weapons supplies could make it harder for the militants to strike the kingdom and seize more ground in Yemen," WSJ commented.


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> French President Emmanuel Macron shunned parliament and opted to push through a highly unpopular bill that would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64 by triggering a special constitutional power on Thursday.

> The decision was made just a few minutes before the vote was scheduled, because the government had no guarantee that the bill would command a majority at the National Assembly, France's lower house of parliament.

> As lawmakers gathered in the National Assembly Thursday to vote on the bill, the leftist members of parliament broke into the Marseillaise, the French national anthem, preventing Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne from speaking and prompting the speaker to suspend the session.


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> The United States military has released footage it says is of an unsafe interception of a US drone by a Russian jet over the Black Sea.

> The US on Tuesday alleged that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with one of its Reaper surveillance drones in international airspace, forcing it to crash into the sea.

> The Russian defence ministry, in its report of the call with Austin that Shoigu, accused the US of provoking the incident by ignoring flight restrictions the Kremlin had imposed because of its military operations in Ukraine.


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> The foreign ministers also spoke about the nuclear threat posed by Iran, with Cohen saying it was time to reimpose sanctions and put a "Credible military option" on the table.

> "Iran must not be allowed to acquire a nuclear bomb. This is our common stance and this is the goal of our diplomatic efforts."

> Iran agreed to a deal with the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany and the European Union in 2015 by signing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, often referred to as the Iran nuclear deal.


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> Amidst the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, Indian Air Force has received the third regiment of the S-400 `Triumf' air defence missile system from Russia and this will be deployed along the Pakistan border.

> The game changer S-400 air defence system can engage not only enemy fighter jets, but also unmanned aerial vehicles, cruise and ballistic missiles and it has a range up to 400 km.

> Almost 100 personnel of the IAF have undergone training in Russia on the S-400 air defence system.


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> Ramallah, occupied West Bank - Israeli settlers have carried out at least 300 attacks, including shootings and arson, in a rampage through Palestinian villages in the Nablus area of the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials say, in what has been described as a "Pogrom".

> On Monday afternoon, an Israeli was shot and wounded by a Palestinian gunman in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army said.

> "Disturbing evidence of Israeli forces frequently facilitating, supporting and participating in settler attacks, makes it difficult to discern between Israeli settler and state violence. Armed and masked Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians in their homes, attacking children on their way to school, destroying property and burning olive groves, and terrorising entire communities with complete impunity," the statement said.


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> The construction of a secret naval staging facility for Chinese military vessels off the coast of Cambodia was detailed at the DGI London conference on 28 February by geospatial intelligence company BlackSky.

> Radio Free Asia also detailed the construction of two new piers, highlighting that "They seem to be temporary ones to ferry in construction materials and equipment and not naval piers for warships".

> Satellite imagery from BlackSky shows the pier extending into waters deep enough to service aircraft carriers, with columns deployed to a length sufficient to moor these vessels.


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> Rooftop solar is poised to overtake coal as Australia's biggest source of generation capacity, as the rapid pace of new installations accelerates the decline of fossil fuel-fired power.

> "When the Liddell coal-fired power station closes in April 2023, rooftop solar alone will generate more power than the remaining coal-fired power stations operating across the country, making rooftop solar the largest power generator."Australian rooftops now host over 20 gigawatts of solar power.

> While solar power is Australia's biggest source of electricity generation by capacity, figures show coal continues to provide the greatest volumes of power despite big declines in recent years.


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> The foreign relations committee of the Kurdistan Workers' Party on Sunday condemned certain Swedish officials who have made statements accusing the Kurdistan freedom movement of recruiting people and raising funds for terrorist activity.

> "We would like to state from the outset that the PKK is a political party that works for the liberation of Kurdistan and the freedom of the Kurdish people, and it has paid a great price for this," the PKK said in a statement.

> The PKK in its statement particularly addressed Sweden's chief negotiator Oscar Stenström who has been leading efforts to bypass Turkey's veto power in NATO. "In an interview with a Swedish radio channel, Mr. Stenström said that our party was financed by a number of criminals in Sweden who are involved in crimes such as extortion, weapons and drugs, and mentioned the name Kurdish Fox," the PKK said.


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> Russian efforts to destabilise Moldova were stepped up on February 28 when supporters of the Russia-linked Shor Party demonstrated in Chisinau, while Moscow continued its propaganda offensive related to the separatist Transnistria region, claiming an invasion by Romania is imminent.

> Moldova is increasingly pictured by the Russian officials as a potential next threat that may need to be addressed after Ukraine.

> The Russian troops in Transnistria are rather limited - similar in side to Moldova's army but not comparable to Ukraine's potential or with the military support Moldova could get from its foreign partners.


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> The U.S. Marshals Service suffered a security breach over a week ago that resulted in the compromise of sensitive information, multiple senior U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.

> In a statement Monday, U.S. Marshals Service spokesperson Drew Wade acknowledged the breach, telling NBC News: "The affected system contains law enforcement sensitive information, including returns from legal process, administrative information, and personally identifiable information pertaining to subjects of USMS investigations, third parties, and certain USMS employees."

> The official said, the incident is significant, affecting law enforcement sensitive information pertaining to the subjects of Marshals Service investigations.


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> Kampala - Uganda will propose a new anti-gay bill on Wednesday, the speaker of the country's parliament said, as conspiracy theories accusing shadowy international forces of "Promoting homosexuality" flood social media.

> Frank Mugisha, executive director of leading gay rights organisation Sexual Minorities Uganda, which was suspended by the authorities last year, told AFP that he had already been inundated with calls from LGBTQ people over the proposed law.

> Under colonial-era laws, homosexual acts are illegal in Uganda but since independence from Britain in 1962 there has never been a conviction for consensual same-sex activity.


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> The UK's electricity grid ran on 100 per cent clean power for 25 hours during December, setting a new monthly record and providing further evidence that the energy system can enable a zero-emission grid.

> The record-breaking performance during December meant there were nearly 100 hours when the grid delivered more clean power than it needed last year.

> The report acknowledged that some fossil fuel generators were required to stay running in order to provide flexibility and inertia services to grid operator National Grid ESO during the periods when demand was fully met by clean sources of power.


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> As the sound of climate protesters reverberated through the conference room, BP Plc Chief Executive Officer Bernard Looney made the case that investment in more oil and gas is crucial for the transition away from those very fuels.

> The executive's pitch at the event - one of the city's biggest fossil fuel conferences - follows the company's recent announcement that it would cut oil and gas production more slowly than expected this decade.

> For the first time last year, investment in clean energy matched funding for fossil fuels, according to BloombergNEF. Still, the world is far behind a trajectory of emissions cuts that would enable it to reach the goals set out in the 2015 Paris climate agreement and prevent the worst impacts of global warming.


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> "I'm absolutely confident that both Finland and Sweden will become members of NATO," Stoltenberg told reporters as he appeared alongside Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin in Helsinki.

> Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday that Sweden has not lived up to its side of a June agreement in which Sweden and Finland pledged to lift restrictions on selling weapons to Turkey and to intensify work on Ankara's requests to extradite suspected militants.

> Marin said Tuesday the potential threat of Russia following its invasion of Ukraine last year prompted Finland to seek NATO membership, saying the NATO line "Is the only line Russia wouldn't cross."


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> The Japanese government has decided to add more individuals and institutions, including the Russian private military company Wagner Group, to its list of sanctions in relation to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

> Under the sanctions, exports to the Wagner Group and 20 other institutions, including research facilities in Russia, will be banned.

> The list now includes a deputy minister of the Russian Defence Ministry, pro-Russian individuals in Ukraine and aircraft manufacturing plants and banks in Russia.


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> In less than 24 hours, Israelis gave more than $272,750 to help Palestinians whose homes and businesses were destroyed by dozens of rioting settlers in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday.

> A 37-year-old Palestinian man was killed, 300 were wounded - four of them seriously - and dozens of buildings and vehicles were set on fire in the mass riot that followed the killing of two Israeli brothers in a terror shooting in the same town.

> When asked how he intended to distribute the funds to Huwara residents, Fink replied that he was contacting local leaders through former Israeli security personnel.


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> The EU sanctions-listed Russian-Finnish businessman Boris Rotenberg appears to have violated EU sanctions regulations by inadequately informing local Finnish authorities about the extent of his holdings in the Nordic country.

> Boris Rotenberg is a member of the Rotenberg family of Russian oligarchs, and has had Finnish citizenship since 2002.

> It was reported last September that Finnish authorities had seized more than 80 million euros worth of assets owned by Russians subject to EU sanctions, including an two villas owned by Boris Rotenberg.


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> More than 21 million people in Yemen, or two-thirds of the country's population, need help and protection, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, which says the humanitarian needs in Yemen are "Shocking." Among those in need, more than 17 million are considered particularly vulnerable.

> He said the U.S. will provide more than $444 million in humanitarian assistance to Yemen in 2023.

> The $4.3 billion appeal for 2023 is almost double the $2.2 billion that the U.N. received in 2022 to fund its humanitarian program in Yemen.


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> Australia has exposed and quietly expelled a large Russian spy ring whose members were posing as diplomats, a local newspaper has reported just days after Australia's intelligence chief revealed that his agency had scored a major counterespionage success.

> The ring had operated in Australia for 18 months before it was uncovered and its activities were broken up by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, the country's main domestic spy agency, the newspaper reported.

> The Russian spies were quietly forced out of Australia over the past six months with their visas not renewed or cancelled, the newspaper reported.


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> The Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg joined Indigenous Sami demonstrators on Monday, blocking the entrance to Norway's Energy Ministry.

> The Sami Indigenous people, who are spread out across mostly parts of Norway, but also Sweden, Finland and Russia, have been herding reindeer for centuries.

> "Indigenous rights, human rights, must go hand-in-hand with climate protection and climate action. That can't happen at the expense of some people. Then it is not climate justice," Thunberg told Reuters news agency outside the ministry's main entrance with other demonstrators.


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> Drug retailers in Pakistan revealed that insulin, Disprin, Calpol, Tegral, Nimesulide, Hepamerz, Buscopan and Rivotril, are among the common and important drugs that are in shortage in the country.

> The present financial crisis in Pakistan has hit the healthcare system, leaving patients struggling for essential medicines.

> Almost 95 per cent of the drugs manufactured in Pakistan require raw materials which are imported from other nations, including India and China.


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