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Putin will meet China's top diplomat in Moscow, a winter storm threatens record snowfall in parts of the U.S., and why tech giants have a billion-dollar search problem

by Linda Noakes

War in Ukraine, one year on

Demonstrators call on President Joe Biden to send F-16 jets to Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland, February 22, 2023. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet leaders of NATO's eastern flank today while China's top diplomat holds talks in Moscow - contrasting shows of support ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
We look at how President Vladimir Putin's suspension of Russia's last remaining nuclear weapons treaty with the U.S. raises the stakes over China's growing arsenal.
Putin revoked a 2012 decree that in part underpinned Moldova's sovereignty in resolving the future of the Transdniestria region - a Moscow-backed separatist region which borders Ukraine and where Russia keeps troops.
A year since Putin sent troops into Ukraine, the views of Russia's 145 million people about the war are still difficult to discern. We interviewed two Russian women - one proud and one fearful.
As Ukrainians continue to bury their dead we report from Kharkiv, where a Mariupol defender was finally laid to rest, and from Bucha, where friends and family mourn the woman who became a symbol of the war when her brightly painted nails allowed her body to be identified.

Around the World

Waves come to shore along the coastline as a winter storm approaches Oceanside, California, February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Mike Blake

A winter storm spreading across the U.S. West into the Northern Plains and Midwest could produce blizzards, brutal cold, and record snowfall, making roads treacherous and disrupting air travel.
The foreperson of a Georgia grand jury that investigated former U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state told media that the panel recommended multiple criminal indictments.
Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination, after its local council voted to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws. The move addresses an issue important to the area's South Asian diaspora, particularly the Indian and Hindu communities.
A British-born woman who went to Syria as a schoolgirl to join Islamic State lost her latest appeal against the UK government's decision to take away her citizenship. Shamima Begum left London in 2015 aged 15 and traveled with two school friends to Syria, where she married an IS fighter and gave birth to three children, all of whom died as infants.
South Korea's fertility rate dropped last year to a record low, data showed, in yet another grim milestone for the country with the world's lowest number of expected children for each woman. The government has failed to reverse the falling birth rate despite spending billions of dollars each year on childcare subsidies.
Nigerians will vote on Saturday in what could be their most credible and close electoral contest since military rule ended nearly a quarter of a century ago. In today's Reuters World News podcast, we are on the ground in Lagos for the latest updates.

Business & Markets

Traders sport carnival costumes during a trading session at the stock market in Frankfurt, Germany February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

Global shares traded around their lowest levels in more than a month and U.S. Treasury yields stuck to around their highest since November, as fresh fears about inflation and interest rates weighed on market sentiment. Cracks are widening in an early-year rally in stocks, as rising Treasury yields bolster the allure of bonds and skew equity valuations.
Toyota, the world's biggest automaker, said it would accept a union demand for the biggest base salary increase in 20 years and a rise in bonus payments, as Japan steps up calls for businesses to hike pay.
Britain's big supermarkets say they have never been more competitive on price, yet their customers are still flocking to German-owned discount stores Aldi and Lidl. And the discounters' supermarket sweep still has a long way to run, industry executives say.
Microsoft has struck a 10-year deal to bring 'Call of Duty' and other Activision games to Nvidia's gaming platform if the Xbox maker is allowed to complete its much-contested $69 billion acquisition of Activision. Regulators and competitors like Sony have come out hard against the proposed Microsoft-Activision tie-up.
As Alphabet looks past a chatbot flub that helped erase $100 billion from its market value, another challenge is emerging from its efforts to add generative artificial intelligence to its popular Google Search: the cost.
China's Baidu beat revenue estimates for the fourth quarter, bolstered by strength in its advertising, cloud and artificial intelligence businesses, sending its U.S.-listed shares up 7% in premarket trading.

And Finally

Ishmael Bermudez crawls on the bedrock that he exposed after digging under his house in Miami, Florida, February 13, 2023. REUTERS/Marco Bello

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