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Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies are developing an underwater fiber-optic cable Internet network worth $500 million, which will connect the countries of Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

Weak progress on women's rights around the world is rapidly deteriorating. It will take at least another 300 years to achieve gender equality. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned about this.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during the announcement of the address to the Federal Assembly, said that the West had unleashed a war in Ukraine. And Russia is trying to stop it.

Armenia has completed work on a draft peace agreement with Azerbaijan and handed it over to the country. This was announced by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

In Seoul, a court ordered the government to pay 30 million won ($24,000) to a Vietnamese woman who was shot during an attack by South Korean marines on her village during the Vietnam War in 1968.