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Britain's star Winter Paralympian loses guide to Covid on eve of Beijing Games

Menna Fitzpatrick, who won FOUR medals in Pyeongchang, has switched from Katy Guest to Gary Smith ahead of her first race on Saturday

Daily Mirror

Sanctions are neither new nor guaranteed to work – just look at Cuba

Analysis: Economic penalties have been meted out since Napoleon’s day but there’s little proof they achieve the desired outcome

The Guardian - UK

Japan on alert amid provocations by China, N. Korea, Russia

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the government is on alert for provocations in East Asia by China, Russia and North Korea, which it believes might attempt to take advantage of the turmoil in international affairs.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

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US and 10 other countries condemn North Korea missile launch

The United States and 10 other countries are condemning North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch as “unlawful and destabilizing” and urging the U.N. Security Council to condemn it as well

The Independent UK

How many nuclear weapons are there in the world? 9 countries with most nukes amid Third World War fears

New focus on nuclear arsenals after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

North Korea blames Ukraine crisis on 'hegemonic high-handedness' of U.S

North Korea broke its silence on Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Monday, blaming the "hegemonic policy" and "high-handedness" of the United States and the West.

Reuters

Russia’s Missiles See Mixed Results in Ukraine War as World Watches

Russia has employed hundreds of powerful and precise ballistic missiles in the first days of its Ukraine attack, but analysts and US officials say many Ukrainian defenses remain intact - effects that countries around the world are watching closely. The use of short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) is likely being watched…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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North Korea Hails 'Significant' Test in Satellite Development

North Korea said it had carried out a test of "great significance" for developing a reconnaissance satellite, state media reported Monday, a day after Seoul said it had detected a ballistic missile launch. Despite sweeping international sanctions, Pyongyang carried out a record-breaking blitz of weapons tests in January before pausing…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia's missiles see mixed results in Ukraine war as world watches

Russia has employed hundreds of powerful and precise ballistic missiles in the first days of its Ukraine attack, but analysts and U.S. officials say many Ukrainian defences remain intact - effects that countries around the world are watching closely.

Reuters

North Korea says it tests systems for spy satellite

North Korean says it has tested cameras to be installed on a spy satellite

The Independent UK

North Korea says it held test for ‘reconnaissance satellite’

North Korea said it held an “important” test for a reconnaissance satellite over the weekend, in its first launch of a ballistic missile since late January.

Tribune News Service

North Korea says it conducted test for developing reconnaissance satellite - KCNA

North Korea said a test conducted on Sunday was for the development of a reconnaissance satellite system, state news agency KCNA reported on Monday, a day after a missile launch was detected from the country.

Reuters

North Korea fires missile to Sea of Japan as Kim Jong-un restarts weapons testing

It is the eighth successive show of strength by Kim Jong-un and follows a series of tests in the area after North Korea said it was lifting temporary self-imposed ban on nuclear and long-range missile

Daily Mirror

North Korea test fires possible ballistic missile in sea in eighth launch this year

After pausing launches during the Winter Olympics, North Korea has fired a possible ballistic missile, according to Japan’s coast guard

The Guardian - AU

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Tribune News Service

North Korea fires missile on eastward path; possibly ballistic

North Korea fired an unidentified projectile that flew in an eastward path and could be its first ballistic missile launch since it conducted a record barrage of tests in January.

The Independent UK

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile into sea

South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired a suspected missile into the sea off of its eastern coast

Reuters

N.Korea resumes missile tests with first launch in a month

North Korea fired what could be a ballistic missile on Sunday, military officials in South Korea and Japan said, in what would be the first test since the nuclear-armed country conducted a record number of launches in January.

Asharq Al-Awsat

China Is Russia’s Best Hope to Blunt Sanctions, but Wary

China is the only friend that might help Russia blunt the impact of economic sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, but President Xi Jinping’s government is giving no sign it might be willing to risk its own access to US and European markets by doing too much. Even if Beijing…

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The Independent UK

China is Russia's best hope to blunt sanctions, but wary

Reuters

China's Xi, in message to N.Korea's Kim, vows cooperation under 'new situation' -KCNA

Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un the significance of cooperation between the two countries, North Korea's state media KCNA reported on Saturday.

Reuters

S.Korea test-fires missile interceptor a month after N.Korea launches -Yonhap

South Korea on Wednesday test-fired a long-range surface-to-air missile, Yonhap news agency reported, a month after North Korea tested a record number of increasingly powerful missiles potentially capable of evading defences in the South.

The Independent UK

UN investigator calls for 60M vaccine doses for North Korea

The United Nations’ independent investigator on human rights in North Korea has called for the international community to provide 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the isolated authoritarian nation, which has recently showed signs of easing one of the world’s most restrictive pandemic border closures

Reuters

World should send 60 million COVID-19 vaccines to N.Korea, U.N. investigator says

The international community should form a strategy to provide North Korea with at least 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to head off humanitarian disaster, an independent U.N. human rights investigator said on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Covid live: Poland, Slovakia and Iceland latest countries set to end most coronavirus restrictions — as it happened

Move comes as case numbers and deaths continue to fall in many nations

Reuters

S.Korea presidential frontrunner seeks to 'reset' China ties with extra THAAD missile system

Plans by South Korea's leading opposition presidential candidate to buy an additional THAAD U.S. missile system risks economic retaliation from China, his top foreign policy adviser said, but that would provide a chance to "reset" testy diplomatic ties.

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