## India and China hail warming ties amid Trump-induced geopolitical shake-up

Authored by theguardian.com

It will be Modi’s first trip to China since 2018.

Relations between the two nuclear powers plummeted in 2020 when a border dispute in the remote Himalayas turned deadly.

Both sides have continued to fortify borders, but have agreed to a pact on border patrols, and withdrawn additional forces.

India’s foreign ministry on Wednesday said Wang and the Indian national security adviser Ajit Doval discussed “de-escalation, delimitation and boundary affairs”.

“The setbacks we experienced in the past few years were not in the interest of the people of our two countries.

“For now, India’s priority lies in managing tensions with China while navigating turbulent waters with the US.”.

After India, Wang will travel to Pakistan, a close ally of China but rival of India. »

### Video captures Rhode Island prosecutor warning officers will 'regret this' as she's arrested at restaurant

Authored by nbcnews.com

Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan and a friend had been asked to leave Clarke Cooke House in Newport when officers arrived, police video showed.

At numerous points of the video, police tell Hogan Flanagan and her friend, Veronica Hannan, that the confrontation would be over if they just left the Bannister’s Wharf restaurant.

Bodycam video shows Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan being arrested in Newport, R.I., on Thursday. »

### Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find

Authored by phys.org

Plastic bag use in the state dropped 91%, and three-quarters of those surveyed approved of the approach.

Now, researchers at the University of Vermont have dug deeper into the 745-person survey conducted by the University of Vermont Center for Rural Studies.

The researchers found the law's strongest effect, by far, was a near-complete elimination of plastic bag use following the ban's implementation—a 91% drop. »

### Zelenskyy gave Ukraine war veteran’s golf club as gift to Trump

Authored by theguardian.com

Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave Donald Trump a golf club during his visit to Washington this week that had belonged to a serviceman fighting Russia’s invasion, Kyiv said on Tuesday.

“The president of Ukraine presented the president of the United States with a golf club,” Zelenskyy’s office said.

Later on Tuesday, the Ukrainian veteran organisation United by Golf published a video of Trump holding the golf club and thanking Kartavtsev. »

### A new moon discovered orbiting Uranus is so small, you could walk it in two hours

Authored by yahoo.com

Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus.

The moon, which was first seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope on Feb. 2, joins a busy neighborhood of 28 other known moons around Uranus.

The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into one of the more mysterious planets in our solar system. »

## In pictures

## Also in the news

#### ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it

#### FDA warns public not to eat possibly radioactive shrimp sold at Walmart

#### Mamdani Pounces as Leaked Audio Shows Cuomo 'Expecting Trump's Help' to Win

#### Local Pastor Among Eight Arrested in Las Vegas-Area Child Predator Sting

#### Texas Democrat Nicole Collier Sues After Republicans Lock Her In Capitol