World News: 29 December 2022

Russia fires 120 missiles from air and sea on Ukraine
Blasts were also heard in the cities of Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv and Zhytomyr.
The regional leader of the southern province of Odesa, Maksym Marchenko, spoke of a "massive missile attack on Ukraine".
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia was attacking the country from "various directions with air and sea-based cruise missiles". It added that a number of Kamikaze drones had also been used.

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Uzbekistan links child deaths to India cough syrup
Doc-1 Max syrup was manufactured by Noida-based Marion Biotech and imported into the country by Quramax Medical LLC.
The Central Asian country said that the children with acute respiratory disease died after drinking the cough syrup.

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Energy giant ExxonMobil sues EU to block energy windfall tax
ExxonMobil reported a third-quarter profit of around $20 billion, nearly triple the previous year. According to the company's chief financial officer, the EU tax is estimated to cost the firm over $2 billion through to the end of 2023.

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United States imposes Covid testing for visitors from China
Italy, Japan, Taiwan and India also announced mandatory tests, but Australia and UK said there were no new rules for travellers from China.
After three years of being closed to the world, China will let people travel more freely from 8 January.
But the country's ongoing Covid surge has sparked wariness.

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Iraq prime minister orders crackdown on trademark violations
It said that Iraqi authorities had taken “legal measures” against a number of businesses found to be operating under fake trademarks, but did not specify which ones.

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Google, YouTube content providers must face U.S. children's privacy lawsuit
This law gives the Federal Trade Commission and Attorneys General, but not private prosecutors, authority to regulate the online collection of personal information from children under the age of 13.
The lawsuit alleged that Google’s data collection violated similar state laws and that YouTube content providers such as Hasbro Inc (NASDAQ:), Mattel Inc (NASDAQ:), the Cartoon Network and DreamWorks Animation lured children to their channels , because they knew they would be persecuted.

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