🇹🇷🇺🇸Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday he had "a good meeting" with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken following media reports of Ankara blocking NATO talks on Sweden and Finland's membership bids

“Today there was a meeting at the ministerial level, [US Under Secretary Victoria] Nuland visited Ankara before. A meeting is also planned at the level of leaders of the two countries, in order to discuss issues that have arisen in bilateral relations,” Cavusoglu told reporters, adding that Turkey-US negotiations on deliveries of F-16 fighter jets are “positive.”

🇺🇸 Blinken says it is false that US sanctions imposed on Russia are to blame for the worsening crisis around fertilizer supply

"Some have tried to blame the sanctions imposed on Russia by the United States and many other countries for worsening this crisis. This is false," Blinken said during remarks at the United Nations.

📈Analysts at JPMorgan have raised the ratings for the stocks of seven Chinese internet firms, including Tencent, Alibaba, Meituan, NetEase, and Pinduoduo, from “underweight” to “overweight.” An "overweight" stock is a stock that analysts believe will outperform others in its sector.

In a note published Monday, the bank’s China Internet analyst Alex Yao and a team said: “significant uncertainties should begin to abate on the back of recent regulatory announcements” earlier than expected.

“We think key risks to the sector have diminished, particularly in terms of regulatory risk, ADR delisting risk, and geopolitical risk,” the JPMorgan analysts said. It suggests they believe these stocks could overtake the average total return of stores in the analyst’s scope of coverage over the next six to 12 months.

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😷‼️COVID-19 cases are growing in the United States and could get even worse over the coming months. On Wednesday, federal health officials began urging areas hardest hit to consider re-releasing calls for indoor masking.

“Prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House briefing with reporters.

Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions.

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🇺🇸⚡️👶Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to boost production of infant formula and to use US military cargo airplanes in order to expedite overseas shipments of the product

📈Boris Johnson faces pressure to act as the UK inflation rate increases to 9%. Today, millions of households face increasing pressure to cut back on spending as Britain faces the fastest rise in living costs in four decades due to soaring energy prices.

The Bank of England expects the annual rate to worsen, peaking at 10.25% during the year's final quarter, five times its 2% target. It would represent the biggest squeeze on incomes since records began in the 1950s.

Experts said, 'This is what Stagflation looks like.' At the same time, ministers were urged to recognize that the 'warning lights are flashing red,' with the UK economy teetering towards recession after the pandemic and situation in Ukraine.

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🔸The United States, several global development banks, and other groups unveiled a multibillion-dollar plan Wednesday meant to address a worldwide food security crisis exacerbated by the situation in Ukraine.

The US Department of the Treasury announced that several global development banks are “working swiftly to bring their financing, policy engagement, technical assistance” to prevent starvation prompted by the war, rising food costs, and climate damage to crops.

Tens of billions of dollars will be spent on supporting farmers, addressing the fertilizer supply crisis, and developing land for food production, among other issues. The Asian Development Bank will contribute funds to feeding Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, and the African Development Bank will use $1.5bn to assist 20 million African farmers, according to the Treasury.

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⚡️🇵🇾😱 VIDEO: A Paraguay mayor has been shot several times in an alleged assassination attempt

A surveillance camera showed three gunmen jumping out of a car and opening fire at José Carlos Acevedo, the mayor of Pedro Juan Caballero.

He is reportedly in critical condition now

❗️🇺🇸🇺🇦 The Senate has confirmed Brink as the US Ambassador to Ukraine

🇺🇸😂 Watch ex-president George W. Bush acknowledge his invasion of Iraq was totally unjustifiable in a shocking slip of the tongue

“The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine,” Bush said.

Did he really mean Ukraine?

‼️Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Wednesday signed legislation banning the sale and possession of so-called “ghost guns,” making Illinois the first state in the Midwest to crack down on untraceable firearms made at home.

The legislation, introduced by State Representative Kam Buckner and State Senator Jacqueline Collins, makes it illegal for someone to sell, offer to sell, or transfer a firearm frame or receiver unnumbered and unfinished or an unfinished firearm – including those produced using a 3-D printer.

The term “ghost gun” refers to DIY-type handguns that lack serial numbers or other identifying markers, making it difficult for law enforcement to track their maker, seller, or original owner. One of the most popular ways to create ghost guns is by buying pre-made parts and assembling them into a weapon at home.

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⚡️ At least one civilian killed in Ukrainian strikes on village of Tyotkino in Russia's Kursk region, governor says