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  • Biden prepared to leave Washington for an emergency Nato summit as Ukraine said it was running out of weapons.
  • The pro-Kremlin Komsomolskaya Pravda published, then deleted, a new Russian defence ministry tally of 9,861 Russian combat deaths in Ukraine.
  • Morad Tahbaz, a British-Iranian national still held hostage in Iran, went on hunger strike.
  • Ash Barty, the world tennis number one, retired from the sport saying she was “spent” at 25.

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