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BREAKING: Riot police in the Netherlands clear Amsterdam university campus of pro-Palestinian protesters and encampment, arresting around 125 people.

BREAKING: The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel 'will not accept responsibility for this attack for strategic reasons'

JUST IN: China says current tensions in the Middle East are a consequence of the Gaza war

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BREAKING: Israel's defense minister says 'those who think we are delaying [the invasion of Rafah] will soon see there is no place we cannot reach'.

POLL: 🇺🇸 President Biden job approval

Approve: 39%

Disapprove: 58%

(Financial Times/Ross)

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MEDICINE: 62 year old man in Germany received 217 coronavirus vaccines within a period of 29 months which 'did not lead to adverse events' and 'without having a strong positive or negative effect on the intrinsic quality of adaptive immune responses'.

(The Lancet)

HEALTH: Privatization of hospitals generally corresponded with worse quality of care, fewer cleaning staff per patient, higher infections and higher rates of avoidable deaths, according to a study published in The Lancet Public Health.

SCIENCE: Consuming over two liters of diet soda or other artificially sweetened drinks per week could increase the risk of an irregular heartbeat by 20%, according to a study by researchers in China.

(Source: Circulation: Arrythmia and Electrophysiology)

Share of global arms exports between 2019-23.

🇺🇸 US: 42%

🇫🇷 France: 11%

🇷🇺 Russia: 11%

🇨🇳 China: 5.8%

🇩🇪 Germany: 5.6%

🇮🇹 Italy: 4.3%

🇬🇧 UK: 3.7%

🇪🇸 Spain: 2.7%

🇮🇱 Israel: 2.4%

🇰🇷 South Korea: 2%

🇹🇷 Turkey: 1.6%

🇳🇱 Netherlands: 1.2%

🇸🇪 Sweden: 0.8%

🇵🇱 Poland: 0.7%

(SIPRI)

GDP at current prices.

1993

🇯🇵 Japan: $4.54 trillion

🇮🇳 India: $0.28 trillion

2023

🇯🇵 Japan: $4.23 trillion

🇮🇳 India: $3.73 trillion

(IMF)

TECHNOLOGY: The Financial Times says that 🇲🇾 Malaysia is the 'surprise winner from US-China chip wars'

GDP at current prices.

2003

🇮🇩 Indonesia: $255 billion

🇹🇷 Turkey: $314 billion

2023

🇮🇩 Indonesia: $1.4 trillion

🇹🇷 Turkey: $1.1 trillion

(IMF)

Global Cities Index ranking, 2023.

1. 🇺🇸 NYC

2. 🇬🇧 London

3. 🇫🇷 Paris

4. 🇯🇵 Tokyo

5. 🇨🇳 Beijing

6. 🇧🇪 Brussels

7. 🇸🇬 Singapore

8. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles

9. 🇦🇺 Melbourne

10. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong

11. 🇺🇸 Chicago

12. 🇪🇸 Madrid

13. 🇨🇳 Shanghai

14. 🇰🇷 Seoul

(Kearney 2023 Global Cities Report)

Increase in GDP per capita (PPP) between 2003-2023.

🇨🇴 Colombia: 159%

🇦🇷 Argentina: 138%

🇨🇱 Chile: 134%

🇺🇸 United States: 104%

🇧🇷 Brazil: 100%

🇨🇦 Canada: 82%

🇲🇽 Mexico: 78%

🇻🇪 Venezuela: -22%

(IMF)

Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport in Madeira, Portugal.

It is named in honor of the football legend and receives over 4 million passengers annually.

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Suspended payments to UN Relief and Works Agency

🇺🇲 United States

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

🇨🇦 Canada

🇦🇺 Australia

🇩🇪 Germany

🇮🇹 Italy

🇳🇱 Netherlands

🇨🇭 Switzerland

🇫🇮 Finland