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China's foreign ministry says the US has flown balloons into its airspace more than 10 times in the past year. It comes after the US on 4 February shot down a suspected spy balloon over its airspace - which China said was one of its weather balloons gone astray. Relations between the two countries have since deteriorated. In recent days, the US has also shot down a number of other unidentified objects. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64621598

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Elon Musk Resorts To Asking Users To ‘Like’ Competing Electric Car Ad On Twitter Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter who’s reportedly struggling with engagement on his social media platform, personally asked Twitter users to like a car ad for Hyundai on Friday, it was the latest sign that Musk may be out of ideas on how to make Twitter profitable. “Press the heart,” Musk tweeted to his followers on Friday about the car ad. The ad, which features actor Kevin Bacon and his daughter Sosie Bacon, is for the Hyundai Ioniq 6 electric car, which is a direct competitor of Musk’s own electric vehicle company Tesla. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/11/elon-musk-resorts-to-asking-users-to-like-competing-electric-car-ad-on-twitter

"U.S. citizens residing or travelling in Russia should depart immediately," the US Mission Russia said in an updated travel advisory issued by the US State Department. "Exercise increased caution due to the risk of wrongful detentions," it said. "Russian security services have arrested U.S. citizens on spurious charges, singled out U.S. citizens in Russia for detention and harassment, denied them fair and transparent treatment, and convicted them in secret trials or without presenting credible evidence." https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-2-13-23/h_a08c482659854a2cbecaf429141c0a3c

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(Bloomberg) -- China is getting ready to take down an unidentified object spotted flying over waters near the port city of Qingdao, The Paper reported. An employee at the marine development authority of Qingdao’s Jimo district said “relevant authorities” are preparing to bring down the object, the report said. The employee was not informed what the object was. The person said fishermen in the area have been told to be careful about safety, the report added. https://news.yahoo.com/china-spots-unidentified-object-flying-113000791.html

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn; Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard Ratcliffe; and the son of the late Dame Vivienne Westwood were among 2,000 supporters at the event in central London on Saturday. Campaigners fighting for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be freed have staged a "night carnival" in London. Around 2,000 people from the Don't Extradite Assange campaign assembled at Lincoln's Inn Fields, close to Holborn, before marching past Parliament Square at around 6pm on Saturday. https://news.sky.com/story/julian-assange-hundreds-of-supporters-stage-night-carnival-calling-for-wikileaks-founders-freedom-12808976

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New YorkCNN — More than half of Twitter’s top 1,000 advertisers in September were no longer spending on the platform in the first weeks of January, according to data provided to CNN by digital marketing analysis firm Pathmatics, in a striking sign of how far reaching the advertiser exodus has been following Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company. Some 625 of the top 1,000 Twitter advertisers, including major brands such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Jeep, Wells Fargo and Merck, had pulled their ad dollars as of January, according to estimates from Pathmatics, based on data running through January 25. Wells Fargo said it “paused our paid advertising on Twitter” but continues to use it as a social channel to engage with customers. The other brands did not immediately respond to a request for comment. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertiser-decline/index.html

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New classified document found in FBI search of Pence home WASHINGTON — The FBI discovered an additional document with classified markings at former Vice President Mike Pence ’s Indiana home during a search Friday, following the discovery by his lawyers last month of sensitive government documents there. Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said the Department of Justice completed “a thorough and unrestricted search of five hours” and removed “one document with classified markings and six additional pages without such markings that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president’s counsel.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fbi-searching-pence-home-as-part-of-classified-docs-probe/2023/02/10/139e030a-a962-11ed-b2a3-edb05ee0e313_story.html

CNN — A document with classified markings was removed from former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home Friday during a search by the FBI, according to Pence spokesman Devin O’Malley. Six “additional pages without such markings that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president’s counsel” were also removed, O’Malley said. Pence is currently on the West Coast with his family after the birth of two grandchildren, according to his spokesperson. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/10/politics/mike-pence-house-fbi-search/index.html

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Anatoly Salmin, a convicted thief and murderer, is home from prison years ahead of schedule, his reward for volunteering for a suicide mission in Russia’s war in Ukraine – and then managing to survive. Hundreds of convicts recruited into the ranks of Wagner, a private military company tied to the businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, have been killed or severely wounded in Ukraine, where the mercenaries have been tasked with some of Russia’s most desperate campaigns. But a video released last month showed several dozen former convicts – among them murderers, drug dealers and domestic abusers – now heading to their home towns in northern Russia, supposedly having earned pardons by surviving six months in Wagner’s ranks in Ukraine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/wagner-convict-soldiers-return-from-ukraine-russia-mercenary-group

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