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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi left Taiwan on Wednesday in the wake of heightened tensions with China. Beijing claims ownership of the self-ruled island and has responded with multiple military drills in zones surrounding Taiwan in retaliation.
Surging inflation and severe slowdowns in the United States and China prompted the IMF to downgrade its outlook for the global economy this year and next, while warning that the situation could get much worse. SOUNDBITE
It hasn’t taken to the skies yet, but the Overture aircraft is designed to trim hours off long-haul flights and avoid harming the environment by using 100 per cent sustainable aviation fuel.
"China-Russia cooperation has no limits," says Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin, as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made his first visit to China since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine last month.
On the eighth and ninth days of fighting, a fire at Europe's biggest nuclear power station at Zaporizhzhia is put out, with Ukraine accusing Russia of "nuclear terror" in shelling the plant. Russian troops later take over the site of the reactors, which generate a fifth of Ukraine's electricity. Moscow's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia denies that Russian forces had shelled the plant, saying the statements "are simply untrue". Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Moscow is ready for dialogue over Ukraine if all its demands are met. Ukraine plans to hold a third round of talks this weekend with Russian officials to try to end the fighting, one of Kyiv's negotiators says. Putin signs a law imposing 15-year jail sentences for fake news about the Russian armed forces which many fear could severely curtail reporting.
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