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🇮🇷 Iran’s attorney general said the nationwide law requiring women to wear hijabs in public is under review. The country’s parliament and Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution will announce the result of their review on Friday of next week. The attorney general also claimed the country is abolishing its morality police, which are tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, but those comments were later refuted by Iranian state media.
🛢️ OPEC+ will stick with its previously-agreed-to oil production cuts amidst new Russian sanctions. In a statement, the Saudi-led group, which includes Russia, said the move will allow it more time to assess the market impact of a $60 per barrel price cap on Russian oil, which was imposed last week by the G7 nations and Australia. In October, OPEC+ voted to cut production by 2 million barrels per day despite pushback from the White House, citing a global slowdown in demand.
🇷🇺 Russia is burning through missiles in Ukraine faster than it can produce them, a top US official said Saturday. National Intelligence Director Avril Haines told NBC News that Russia is using up ammo at a rate too fast for its defense industry to keep up, prompting Moscow to look to other sources such as North Korea. The Pentagon last month said Russia is firing up to 20,000 artillery rounds per day, compared with 4,000–7,000 from Ukraine.
🌍 China loosened some Covid restrictions following anti-gov't protests, passengers on flights within the EU next year won’t be required to place any 5G-enabled device into airplane mode, and nearly 7.9 million Ukrainians have moved to neighboring countries since February.
🌍 Chinese residents who attended weekend protests are starting to be contacted by police, ISIS confirmed its mysterious leader was recently killed, and the French baguette was one of 23 items added to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list yesterday.
🌍 Around the world: China launched three astronauts into orbit to complete construction of its new space station, Christians are now a minority in England and Wales for the first time ever, and the US announced $53 million in new funding to help restore Ukraine’s power grid.
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