1. EU agreed to impose sanctions on seven people and seven organisations, including airline Iran Air, for their links to Iranian transfers of ballistic missiles to Russia.

2. The Pentagon said it will send US troops to Israel along with an advanced anti-missile system, in a highly unusual deployment meant to bolster the country's air defenses following missile attacks by Iran.

3. China's military launched a new round of war games near Taiwan, saying it was a warning to the "separatist acts of Taiwan independence forces".

4. Zelenskiy said that defense relationships with his country's partners would have to change in light of North Korean transfers of people as well as weapons to Russian forces in Ukraine.

5. Chinese and European automakers are going head-to-head at the Paris car show, with tensions running high.