Daily brief
Amazon has agreed to buy satellite communications company Globalstar for approximately $11.6 billion, a move widely seen as a direct challenge to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service. The acquisition is a major step in Amazon's Project Kuiper, its own satellite network initiative.
Friedrich Merz said the EU’s €90 billion loan for Kyiv should be disbursed now.
Russia is struggling to restore oil exports from a key Black Sea port after it was damaged.
Ukraine said it would repair the Druzhba pipeline supplying Russian oil to Hungary by the end of April, and the EU tied €35 billion in Hungary funds to reforms and support for Kyiv.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant lost external power supply, and Ukraine tested a rail route linking Kyiv with Chisinau airport.