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Missiles target Ukraine's cities, rescues provide a glimmer of hope among the earthquake ruins, and Bill Gates says ChatGPT "will change our world"

by Linda Noakes

World News

Smog is seen during shelling in the front line city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 9, 2023. REUTERS/Yevhen Titov

Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure in the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia as Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was under way in the east. Here's what you need to know about the conflict right now.
The rescue of several survivors from the rubble in Turkey lifted the spirits of weary search crews, four days after a major earthquake struck the country and neighboring Syria, killing more than 21,000 people. A newborn baby and toddlers are among those who survived days in the rubble, while a woman was brought out alive today after being buried for 104 hours.
European Union leaders said they would tighten their borders to keep away unwanted immigrants, with some seeking more fences and walls while others would rather spend the money on improving living conditions in worse-off parts of the world. Belarus slammed a decision by Poland to close a border checkpoint between the two countries as "catastrophic", saying it could lead to a "collapse" on both sides of the border.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national "state of disaster" over his country's crippling power shortages, saying they posed an existential threat to the economy and social fabric. The electricity crunch has been years in the making.
Residents in Australia's Norfolk Island and in New Zealand braced for heavy rain and gales over the weekend from Cyclone Gabrielle, with authorities also warning of hazardous surf conditions and strong winds along Australia's east coast.

U.S. News

Migrants participate in a caravan, with the intention of turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, on the banks of the Rio Bravo river in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez

President Joe Biden's administration is developing a sweeping bill that would revamp the country's asylum system to speed up the resolution of claims in large-scale processing centers at the border with Mexico, two U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials told Reuters.
Biden, his aides and his Democratic allies are shrugging off polls showing doubts about his age and leadership as they plot his expected re-election campaign, and point instead to the president's flinty State of the Union speech to Congress this week as a sign of his political resiliency.
Former Vice President Mike Pence and former national security adviser Robert O'Brien have been subpoenaed by the special counsel leading probes into classified documents found at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence and efforts to overturn the 2020 election result, according to media reports.
When a newly elected Florida legislator endorsed a bill allowing residents to carry a concealed firearm without a permit, he was both demonstrating his fealty to Ron DeSantis and helping to burnish the governor's conservative credentials for a possible White House run in 2024. Here's why DeSantis is seeking wins on guns and abortion before facing Trump.
Biden, under fire from some lawmakers, said he did not view a Chinese spy balloon that transited the United States before it was shot down in the Atlantic Ocean to have been a major security breach.

Business & Markets

An oil refinery is pictured during sunset on a frosty day in the Siberian city of Omsk, Russia, February 8, 2023. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

Russia will cut oil production by 500,000 barrels per day, or around 5% of output, in March, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, after the West slapped price caps on Russian oil and oil products.
Britain's economy showed zero growth in the final three months of 2022 - enough for it to avoid entering a recession for now - but faces tough prospects in 2023 as households continue to wrestle with double-digit inflation. We look at how the shock of war has hit a world economy at the crossroads.
Japan's government is likely to appoint academic Kazuo Ueda as the Bank of Japan's next governor, two government officials told Reuters, a surprise choice that could see the country finally aligning with other major economies in raising interest rates.
India's market regulator is investigating Adani Group's links to some of the investors in the conglomerate's aborted $2.5 billion share sale, two sources said, amid growing concern in New Delhi about a U.S. short-seller's allegations against one of the country's top industrial groups.
Adidas shares slumped as much as 12% after the sportswear maker warned it could plunge to a loss this year for the first time in three decades, in the latest downgrade triggered by its split from Kanye West.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes ChatGPT, a chatbot that gives strikingly human-like responses to user queries, is as significant as the invention of the internet, he told German business daily Handelsblatt in an interview. The ChatGPT frenzy is sweeping China as firms scramble for home-grown options.

And Finally

A part of a press machine is pictured at the IDRA plant in Travagliato, Italy, January 25, 2023. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo

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