1. President Joe Biden easily won the Democratic presidential primary in Michigan, amid a protest vote by Democrats angry over his support for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Donald Trump won the state's Republican presidential primary by a large margin.

2. French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to create "strategic ambiguity" by openly discussing the idea of sending Western troops to Ukraine.

3. Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich pledged to continue expanding settlements in the occupied West Bank, defying international pressure on Israel to stop building on land Palestinians see as the core of a future independent state.

4. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's funeral service and burial will take place in Moscow on Friday, his spokesperson said, after a search for a hall to allow his supporters to bid farewell to him failed.

5. North Korea's first spy satellite is "alive", a Netherlands-based space expert said, after detecting changes in its orbit that suggested Pyongyang was successfully controlling the spacecraft - although its capabilities remain unknown.

6. Apple has canceled work on its electric car, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, a decade after the iPhone maker kicked off the project.

7. Toyota did not respond to a trade union's wage demands in a second round of pay talks, a senior union official said, keeping investors guessing about the outcome of closely-watched annual wage talks due to conclude on March 13.

Source: Reuters
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