ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP: India signed a comprehensive economic partnership agreement with Oman today as part of its broader strategy to offset the impact of steep United States import tariffs and widen export destinations during growing global trade uncertainties.

The India-Oman agreement was signed in Muscat in the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Oman’s head of state, Sultan Haitham bin Tarik.

SENTENCE REDUCTION: Brazil’s Senate passed a Bill on Wednesday that could significantly reduce the 27-year prison sentence of the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup.

But Gleisi Hoffmann, Brazil’s Minister of Institutional Relations, said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will veto the Bill, as he called the decision “a sign of disrespect to the Supreme Court.”

GERMANY: Germany’s federal prosecutor brought charges today against eight suspects for their alleged membership in a “right-wing extremist terrorist” group that allegedly aimed to destabilise the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents.

The prosecutors also charged the seven alleged members and one supporter of the group, some of them teenagers, of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and grievous bodily harm.

UNITED STATES: President Donald Trump’s administration announced on Wednesday that he was putting forward a massive package of arms sales to the Chinese breakaway province of Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion (£7.5bn) that includes medium-range missiles and drones.

If approved by Congress, it would be the largest-ever US weapons package to Taiwan, exceeding the total amount of $8.4bn in (£6.3bn) US arms sales to Taiwan during president Joe Biden’s Democratic administration.