标题: 2022.02.14 乌克兰要求与弗拉基米尔-普京总统的政府会面 [打印本页] 作者: shiyi18 时间: 2022-2-14 22:24 标题: 2022.02.14 乌克兰要求与弗拉基米尔-普京总统的政府会面 The world in brief
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Ukraine demanded a meeting with President Vladimir Putin's goverment to explain why Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops along the countries’ shared border. Following talks between Mr Putin and the presidents of America and France, Olaf Scholz will be next to try to talk Russia’s leader down. Germany’s chancellor visits Ukraine on Monday and Russia on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, European energy prices surged after America warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could be imminent, or that Russia would provoke a conflict within the country. Natural-gas and electricity prices rose by more than 10%. Europe is extremely reliant on Russia for natural gas, a third or so of which flows through Ukrainian pipelines.
Jio Platforms, an Indian telecommunications giant, said it will launch a satellite-internet service in partnership with SES, a satellite company. It will enter an increasingly crowded market: Airtel, another Indian telecoms firm, announced its own offering in January and Elon Musk’s Starlink, which is already serving customers in America and Britain, is awaiting a licence to operate in India.
Lockheed Martin, the world’s biggest arms manufacturer by sales, pulled the plug on a $4.4bn deal to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne. America’s Federal Trade Commission had been trying to block the purchase on antitrust grounds. Aerojet is America’s only big, independent maker of rocket engines.
The border crossing between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan reopened after police cleared protesters who had been blocking the bridge. The route, North America’s busiest border crossing, had been blocked by a week-long protest. Demonstrators have occupied a number of Canadian cities, agitating against covid-19 testing and quarantine policies. Copycat protests have sprung up as far afield as New Zealand.
Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, said a wave of covid-19 infections has “overwhelmed” the territory. Over 1,500 new cases are expected to be logged on Monday. Despite stringent social-distancing measures, the government says it is not yet considering a mainland-style full lockdown—though it is still clinging to a zero-covid policy. Confounding matters, few elderly people have bothered to get vaccinated.
The Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl, narrowly beating the Cincinnati Bengals. The game was held in the Rams’ home stadium, which opened last year and cost $5bn to build. The rapper Eminem “took a knee” during the halftime show in a jab against the NFL, which has banned its players from performing the protest against racism.
Fact of the day: Zero, the number of teams with black owners in the National Football League, in which 70% of the players are black. Read the full article.