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  1. The production of opium increased sharply in Myanmar after falling for seven years, according to the UN.

    It touched nearly 795 metric tonnes in 2022, nearly double the production in 2021 - 423 metric tonnes - the year of the military coup.

    The UN believes this is driven by economic hardship and insecurity, along with higher global prices for the opium resin that is used to make heroin.

    The coup plunged much of Myanmar into a bloody civil war that still continues.

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    Who is sending tanks to Ukraine?

    Germany has committed to sending one company of Leopard 2 A6 tanks, or 14 vehicles, to Ukraine after weeks of hesitation. Chancellor Olaf Scholz also said Germany would approve requests by other countries to do the same.

    The pressure on Mr Scholz mounted after Poland formally asked Germany to approve sending Leopard 2 tanks from Polish stocks to Ukraine.

    The goal is for Germany and its allies to provide Ukraine with a total of two battalions, or 88 tanks.

  3. Aircraft giant Boeing will answer a fraud charge in court later over two plane crashes which killed 346 people.

    Both accidents were down to flaws in the flight control systems on the 737 Max aircraft which caused nosedives.

    Boeing was found to have failed to disclose information about the system but avoided a trial by agreeing to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) in fines and compensation.

    Relatives of those who died are trying to reopen the settlement.

    It means that for the first time, the company will be formally charged in court in relation to the two crashes, and will have to plead guilty or not guilty.

    Boeing has previously opposed reopening the agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), saying to do so would be "unprecedented, unworkable and inequitable." It declined to comment on the arraignment.

     

    Boeing 737 Max aircraft were cleared to fly again in the US in 2020 and the UK and EU in 2021 after being grounded following the crashes in 2019.

  4. The truck brand is developing a new small pickup, and prototypes have been caught on camera while being tested in the European Arctic.

    The vehicle is set to be called the Ram 1200 and initially built on the other side of the world in Brazil for global sale.

    The trucks in the photos are covered in camouflaging panels that make them look like cardboard SUVs, but underneath they are fully functional vehicles.

  5. A man in Germany fatally stabbed two people and injured seven others on a train before police finally arrested him Wednesday.

    "It is terrible," Interior Minister of Schleswig-Holstein state Sabine Suetterlin-Waack told German public broadcaster NDR. "We are shocked and horrified that something like this has happened."

    The man, identified as 20 to 30 years old, boarded a train traveling from Kiel to Hamburg and attacked several passengers at around 3 p.m. before the train reached the Brokstedt station in northern Germany. 

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    ITV News' Emma Burrows explores the speculation surrounding the Russian leaders' health and assesses what impact any illness he may be suffering could have on the war in Ukraine


    Is Vladimir Putin unwell? Does he have Parkinson's? Cancer? A chronic illness? Does he use body doubles? Could he even be dead?As the war in Ukraine has progressed, more and more rumours have swirled about the state of Putin's health.

     

     

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  7. WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. will send 31 of its frontline battle tanks to Ukraine, reversing his previous reluctance to provide armored vehicles as Ukrainian forces prepare for a new Russian offensive.

    The M1 Abrams tanks, which Kiev requested and Biden faced international pressure to deliver, are viewed as critical to stave off a springtime offensive by Russian forces and to help the Ukrainians claw back parts of their country seized during the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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