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Every weekend, Asia Pacific Daily will provide you with a run-down of the latest hot news.
This week, the following hot news you should know:
Top 1 | Biden and the Bucharest Nine summit in Warsaw, Poland
U.S. President Biden was in Warsaw, Poland on Wednesday meeting with leaders of NATO’s eastern flank to show support for their security ahead of the one year anniversary of the crisis in Ukraine and days after Russia suspended its involvement in a nuclear arms control treaty.
The New START arms control treaty limited the number of Russian and U.S. deployed strategic nuclear warheads.
The summit included NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and other leaders from NATO’s easternmost countries known as the Bucharest Nine, including Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis, Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova, and Poland’s President Andrzej Duda.
**Top 2 | **U.S. grand jury to recommend charges in Trump probe
A U.S. grand jury probing interference by Donald Trump's campaign in the 2020 election has recommended multiple indictments, the forewoman revealed Tuesday.
Prosecutors have spent two years looking into whether Trump and his allies committed crimes in a bid to overturn his defeat in Georgia to Joe Biden by fewer than 12,000 votes.
Last week, three redacted sections from the grand jury's report into the probe was released, revealing that members found no evidence of widespread voter fraud, undercutting Trump's claim that he had been robbed of the election.
Top 3 | U.S., Russia should resume implementation of New START treaty: UN chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on the United States and Russia to resume the full implementation of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).
Asked about Guterres' reaction to Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement that his country will suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty, spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general's position is that the United States and Russia should resume the full implementation of the treaty without delay.
A world without nuclear arms control is a far more dangerous and unstable one with potentially catastrophic consequences. Every effort should be taken to avoid this outcome, including through an immediate return to dialogue, he told a daily press briefing.
Top 4 | Biden arrives in Warsaw after surprise visit to Kyiv
U.S. President Joe Biden landed in the Polish capital Warsaw on Monday evening, Polish television footage showed, after making a surprise visit to Ukraine.
Biden is scheduled to meet with his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda on Tuesday to discuss the U.S.'s cooperation with Poland and efforts to support Ukraine and NATO.
Earlier in the day during his visit to Kyiv, Biden announced the U.S. would be providing $500 million in additional military aid to Ukraine, promising to stand with Ukraine as long as it takes.
Top 5 |** China urges Japan to act prudently on radioactive water disposal**
Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, urged Japan not to dispose radioactive water into the ocean before full consultation with stakeholders such as neighboring countries and international agencies.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks during a meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
Noting that this year marks the 45th anniversary of the signing of The China-Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Wang said the Japanese side should take this opportunity to learn from the experiences and lessons, avoid domestic and external distractions, move in the same direction with the Chinese side, and ensure that China-Japan relations move forward steadily on the right track.
Top 6 | Senior Israeli diplomat ejected from AU summit as row escalates
A senior Israeli diplomat on Saturday was removed from the African Union's annual summit in Ethiopia, as a dispute over Israel's accreditation to the bloc escalated.
Images posted online showed AU security personnel confronting the diplomat during the opening ceremony of the summit, before she left the auditorium.
Ebba Kalondo, the spokesperson for the African Union's commission chairman, said the diplomat had been removed because she was not the duly accredited Israeli ambassador to Ethiopia, the official who was expected.
Top 7 |** Three more U.S. rate hikes this year: Goldman Sachs, BofA**
Goldman Sachs and Bank of America said they expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates three more times this year, lifting their estimates after data pointed to persistent inflation and a resilient labor market.
Producer prices accelerated in January by the biggest margin in seven months, according to official data on Thursday, while a Labor Department report showed the number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week.
Due to the high inflation, the Fed is expected to add a 25-basis-point rate hike in June, for a peak funds rate of 5.2 percent to 5.5 percent, said Goldman Sachs economists led by Jan Hatzius in a note dated Thursday.
Top 8 | Xi sends congratulatory message to 36th AU Summit
hinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent a congratulatory message to the 36th African Union (AU) Summit.
In his message, President Xi pointed out that over the past year, the AU has united and led African countries to actively address global challenges, accelerate the construction of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and play an important role in mediating hotspot issues.
He added the international status and influence of Africa have continuously risen.
Top 9 | Biden: 3 downed aerial objects not linked to Chinese airship
U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday that three unmanned aerial objects shot down over the weekend by the U.S. military were not connected to the Chinese airship that was shot down on February 4 and were "most likely tied to private companies, recreation or research institutions."
He said the administration didn't know exactly what the objects were, but there was no evidence they were connected to China or were "surveillance vehicles" from any other country.
Earlier this month, the U.S. shot down an unmanned Chinese airship that Beijing said entered U.S. airspace due to force majeure. China has strongly denounced the move.
Top 10 | Miracle’ survivors pulled from Türkiye rubble 11 days after quake
‘Miracle’ survivors are still being found 11 days after a 7.8 magnitude reduced large swaths of Türkiye and Syria to rubble. A man was rescued on Friday in the southern Turkish province of Hatay from one of the tens of thousands of collapsed buildings.
A 17-year-old girl, and two others aged 30 and 12 were also rescued on Thursday in Türkiye’s Kahramanmaras province, after being trapped beneath the crumbled concrete for 260 hours.
Two of the survivors told emergency teams that there were others still buried close by.The earthquake on February 6, 2023 killed more than 43,000 people in Türkiye and Syria, with recovery efforts still underway as the odds of finding more survivors dwindle with each hour that passes.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
