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🇧🇾 A court in Belarus sentenced Ales Bialiatski, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner, to 10 years in prison on Friday. Bialiatski, who founded human rights organization Viasna, was among the thousands of Belarusians who were detained in 2020 while protesting against President Alexander Lukashenko following disputed national elections. A Minsk court found Bialiatski and two of his colleagues guilty of smuggling money from abroad to finance the anti-government demonstrations, though opponents of Lukashenko’s government said the charges were politically motivated.

🌊 The UN ratified the first international agreement on ocean protection in over four decades on Saturday. The new High Seas Treaty, which aims to place 30% of the world’s seas and oceans into protected areas by 2030 in order to safeguard marine nature, was agreed upon after nearly two decades of negotiations between UN member-countries. This agreement focuses on the "high seas," aka the 60% of the world's oceans that lie outside of national boundaries; currently ~1% of those areas are protected. The protected areas established by the treaty would place limits on how much fishing, shipping, and deepwater mining can take place within the region. A recent international study found ~10% of all global marine species are currently at risk of extinction.

🇮🇳 Foxconn, Apple’s largest supplier, plans to invest $700 million in a new manufacturing plant in India, Bloomberg first reported. The facility will mainly manufacture iPhone parts and create 100,000 new jobs in the Indian state of Karnataka. Apple has been shifting its production away from China in recent years due to disruptions from the country’s strict zero-Covid policy, as well as to avoid any risk from political tensions between Beijing and Washington, per Reuters. Some 90% of Apple’s products are currently made in China, but the tech giant has committed to moving 25% of its production to India by 2025.