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🪖 The Biden administration is preparing a military assistance package of roughly $750 million for Ukraine in its battles against Russian invaders, sources say. https://bloom.bg/3xoUAWA

🇺🇦 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy offers to exchange Putin ally Viktor Medvedchuk for captive Ukrainians. https://bloom.bg/37HXlHO

🇸🇪 Sweden’s ruling Social Democratic Party leaders will support the country’s bid to join NATO in a sign of how the war in Ukraine is redrawing the European security map. https://bloom.bg/3LZSalf

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🇺🇸 President Biden is sending Ukraine $800 million in heavy weapons that will test the limits of how far aid can go without drawing the U.S. directly into the war. https://bloom.bg/3vcwls2

🔮 Jack Dorsey has fashioned himself as Bitcoin’s unofficial spiritual leader over the past two years. The Twitter founder “hasn’t met a cult he didn’t wanna lead,” as one former employee put it. https://bloom.bg/37mV3xQ

💃 And India’s TikTok alternative is thriving — since the Chinese app is banned there. https://bloom.bg/3xrPFEw

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🇷🇺 The flagship Russian missile cruiser badly damaged off the coast of Ukraine is one of the most recognizable symbols of Ukrainian resistance since the war broke out. https://bloom.bg/3uGVzzS

👀 Russia threatens to deploy nuclear weapons in and around the Baltic Sea region if Finland and Sweden join NATO. https://bloom.bg/3vmmf8d

⚓ Clio, a $65-million superyacht tied to Oleg Deripaska, the Russian aluminum billionaire whose connections to Vladimir Putin have put him on sanctions lists, is on the move again after being anchored off the Maldives. https://bloom.bg/3Oe2w36

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💊 Twitter's board is considering adopting a so-called poison pill measure that would protect the company from Elon Musk's hostile bid to take it private, say sources. https://bloom.bg/3uKlg2z

😯 China’s central bank shocked markets and economists by leaving a key policy rate unchanged, when most expected a cut. https://bloom.bg/3vndURB

🇨🇳🦠 Despite its worst Covid surge yet, China’s curiously low death toll is out of step with what happened in other countries with similar outbreaks. Experts are skeptical. https://bloom.bg/3EdQMJc

🔒 China’s economy accelerated 4.8% in the first quarter beating estimates, but the figure doesn't fully reflect the damage from Covid lockdowns. https://bloom.bg/36ndJgx

😷 Meanwhile, Shanghai just reported three deaths — the first in its current outbreak — as skepticism grows over the country's official Covid death toll. https://bloom.bg/3JLpZoF

☁️ Beijing's tech crackdown led Alibaba to lose out on billions from its cloud business — an opportunity Amazon turned into a gold mine. https://bloom.bg/3EmOV4K

🌍 The World Bank warned of further downgrades to the growth outlook after cutting its 2022 forecast for economic expansion to 3.2%, down from 4.1%. https://bloom.bg/3vqMQRm

🎉 Blockchain.com is planning an IPO as soon as this year, sources say. The Coinbase rival said in March it was valued at about $14 billion in a funding round. https://bloom.bg/3xK5bLQ

🎨 Amateur detectives around the world are taking on art traffickers in a $10 billion black market. https://bloom.bg/36pkmin

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🇪🇺 The European Union is planning to establish a solidarity trust fund to finance the reconstruction of war-shattered Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3vuBY4R

🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Moscow has launched a new campaign focused on conquering the Donbas region of Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/36uDdJ2

🪖 President Vladimir Putin has given a special elite designation to an army unit that Ukraine accuses of committing war crimes in the town of Bucha. https://bloom.bg/3M9YIOg

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🦑 Netflix's stock tanked Tuesday after revealing its first decline in subscribers in over a decade. But Asia was a rare bright spot as the only region to report a gain — thanks to "Squid Game." https://bloom.bg/3xKGCid

💥 Ever notice North Korean propaganda is getting slicker? Kim Jong Un's Hollywood makeover is boosting the country's image with drones, graphics and even rocket-mounted cameras. https://bloom.bg/3OrgNt6

🐳 This is how a 30-year-old dubbed the "King of the Lunatics" became Bitcoin's most watched whale. https://bloom.bg/3MdtYfu

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🇷🇺 A small but growing number of senior Kremlin insiders are quietly questioning Vladimir Putin's decision to go to war. https://bloom.bg/385KmQm

🇺🇦 Ukrainian defenders at a sprawling steel plant in the key port city of Mariupol say they are outnumbered and are appealing to world leaders for help as they face what might be their last stand. https://bloom.bg/3EyER9e

🇫🇮 Finnish lawmakers begin NATO debate, debating how neighboring Russia’s attack on Ukraine will reflect on the Nordic country. https://bloom.bg/3OowjpP

🇨🇳 Xi Jinping says China will continue a commitment to open up its economy, but warns the world is still in the "shadow of a once-in-a-century pandemic." https://bloom.bg/3v139W9

📈 New Zealand inflation accelerates in the first quarter to the fastest pace in 32 years. https://bloom.bg/3MohWQD

💰Bill Ackman, one of Netflix's largest shareholders, ditches his stake after losing more than $430 million in less than three months. https://bloom.bg/3vAn4u8

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🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin says Russia has “liberated” Ukraine’s Mariupol, apart from the massive Azovstal steel plant, which he has ordered be blockaded. https://bloom.bg/3xN0voD

🇪🇺 The European Union is calling on citizens to play their part in breaking the continent’s dependence on Russian energy. https://bloom.bg/3rFWGOq

👀 Russia says it test fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile, a move President Vladimir Putin says will give the U.S. and its allies something to think about. https://bloom.bg/3Mfvi1k

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🛢️ The second wave of the Russian oil shock is starting, writes Javier Blas for Bloomberg Opinion. The Kremlin is doing its best to conceal the full impact of energy sanctions, but Moscow can’t hide from the satellite data. https://bloom.bg/3K6fsVx

💰 China urged some of the country’s biggest investors to buy more stocks, stepping up efforts to stem the market’s slide toward a two-year low. https://bloom.bg/3vzUSrg

🧐 And after weeks of questions over whether Elon Musk is truly serious about acquiring Twitter, his takeover bid got a lot more real. https://bloom.bg/3EDt9tL

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🇩🇪 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledges to continue shipping weaponry to Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3k0gyHJ

🇷🇺 A Russian general says Moscow aims to extend control over the entire south of Ukraine, including Black Sea ports critical to its export economy. https://bloom.bg/3jYoedz

🪦 New satellite images show apparent mass graves near Mariupol, where local officials accuse Russia of burying up to 9,000 Ukrainian civilians to conceal the slaughter taking place in the ruined port city. https://bloom.bg/3rJamb4

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🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron defeated far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election on a pro-business, pro-EU platform, bolstering the bloc in the midst of its worst security crisis in decades. https://bloom.bg/3OwvOtV

📱 “You are throwing me under the bus.” New texts, which came to light as part of an ongoing lawsuit, reveal more about Elon Musk’s spat with a Saudi fund in 2018 and show how the billionaire does business. https://bloom.bg/3va9xKz

👀 And the iPhone 14’s debut is less than six months away. Here’s what to expect: https://bloom.bg/3rQoP5f

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🇺🇸 The U.S. announces additional military aid for Ukraine as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says that Washington wants to see Russian forces ground down so they can’t attempt a repeat of the war. https://bloom.bg/38ki7gQ

❌ Neutral Switzerland has turned down German requests to approve the shipment of ammunition made in the country to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s invasion. https://bloom.bg/38f6Z4Z

🌍 Global military expenditure surpasses $2 trillion per year for the first time, and looks set to rise further as European countries beef up their armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3EN25bO

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💰 Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion, using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take the 16-year-old social network private. The sale was unanimously approved by the company’s board, and is expected to be completed later this year. https://bloom.bg/37DZo03

📢 Users greeted the news with... plenty of memes. With free speech a central pillar of Musk's plans for Twitter, many are wondering if Trump will be returning to his old megaphone — but the former president says he plans to stick to his own social-media platform, Truth Social. https://bloom.bg/3vBuDk0

💭 Just about everyone has thoughts on the deal, including Jeff Bezos and Jack Dorsey. Twitter's cofounder chimed in to say he supported taking the company private, noting "Elon is the singular solution I trust." https://bloom.bg/3MAnqrD

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🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warns there’s a “serious” risk of nuclear war over Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3vgxekA

🗣 U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is hosting talks with officials from more than 40 countries at Ramstein Air Base in Germany to discuss ways of boosting weapons supplies to Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3rO62Y7

📻 Authorities in the breakaway Transnistria region of Moldova report an attack on a military unit, hours after a pair of antennas broadcasting Russian radio were blown up. https://bloom.bg/37Ld4Gv

🇲🇲 Breaking: Myanmar sentences deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in prison, in the first of several corruption charges leveled against her. It brings her total jail term to 11 years since the 2021 coup. https://bloom.bg/3xU92pS

🇸🇬 Singapore executed a mentally disabled man despite international outcry, AP reported. Supporters say the 34-year-old Malaysian, convicted of a drug offense, had an IQ of 69. https://bloom.bg/3LkXwI9

↔️ Elon Musk's emphasis on promoting free speech is making him particularly popular with the American right — putting him at odds with employees, left-leaning users and advertisers, who would in general prefer more content moderation. https://bloom.bg/37FP3AJ

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⛔️Russia stops natural gas flows to Poland and Bulgaria in a major escalation, following threats to cut off buyers if they refuse Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand to pay in rubles.
https://bloom.bg/3OCJLGL

🗣Four European gas buyers have already paid for supplies in rubles, buckling to demands of President Vladimir Putin.
https://bloom.bg/3rV1S0O

🚫Shenzhen-based drone-maker DJI halts all business activities in Russia and Ukraine, becoming the highest-profile Chinese company to withdraw from the war-torn region.
https://bloom.bg/38pEzW0

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⬆️⬇️ Bill Hwang’s Archegos catastrophe was wilder than anyone knew. A year after the asset management company’s collapse sent shock waves through global finance, Hwang was arrested on Wednesday – and, for the first time, federal prosecutors offered an official account of what really happened at the secretive family office. https://bloom.bg/3MSEUzF (Hwang pleaded not guilty and will be freed on $100 million bail.)

⛔️ Chinese cities are rolling out hardline Covid measures to avoid another Shanghai scenario. An outpouring of resentment about Covid Zero on social media is overwhelming censors. https://bloom.bg/3EXCsVO

💸 A powerful dynasty bankrupted Sri Lanka in just 30 months. Read the full story: https://bloom.bg/3LrC8B1