Burning through ammo, Russia is using 40-year-old rounds

The Reuters Daily Briefing Tuesday, December 13, 2022 by Linda Noakes Hello Here's what you need to know. Supporters of Brazil's defeated Bolsonaro attack police headquarters, Bankman-Fried is charged by the SEC, and the U.S. is about to reveal a scientific milestone Today's biggest stories A bus is seen on fire as supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro protest in Brasilia, December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Adriano Machado  WORLD Supporters of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attempted to invade the federal police headquarters in the capital Brasilia, in a flash of post-election violence on the day the president's electoral defeat was certified. Russia and Ukraine pounded each other's forces in heavy fighting in the eastern region of Donetsk as Kyiv's allies met in Paris to provide urgent aid to help Ukrainians survive freezing winter temperatures. Russia is turning to decades-old ammunition with high failure rates as it burns through its stockpiles, a senior U.S. military official said. People in China celebrated the withdrawal of a state-mandated app used to track whether they had traveled to COVID-stricken areas, in the latest loosening of some of the world's toughest anti-virus rules. Indian troops prevented Chinese soldiers from entering Indian territory on December 9 during a border scuffle, the first such clash since 2020, that led to injuries on both sides, India's defense minister said. The incident occurred in the Tawang sector of India's northeastern Himalayan state of Arunachal Pradesh. The European Parliament took steps to strip lawmaker Eva Kaili of her senior assembly post after she and others faced charges that World Cup host Qatar lavished them with cash and gifts to influence decisions, charges she has denied. Migrants queue near the border wall to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to request asylum in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez U.S. About 1,500 people crossed the Rio Grande on Sunday night from Mexico into El Paso, Texas, a Reuters witness said, amid an increase in migrant arrivals in the area ahead of the expiry of a pandemic-era order that blocks them at the U.S.-Mexico border. A federal prosecutor told a court that four members of the far-right Oath Keepers should be found guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to use force to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in order to keep Donald Trump in the White House. Fox Chairman Rupert Murdoch is set to be questioned under oath today in a defamation lawsuit over his network’s coverage of unfounded vote-rigging claims during the 2020 presidential election. The Senate will aim to vote on a bill to keep the federal government operating for one week past a Friday deadline, as Democrats and Republicans bicker over a longer-term measure likely to spend more than $1.5 trillion, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said. The Supreme Court agreed to hear President Joe Biden's appeal of a judge's ruling that found his plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt unlawful, taking up the matter alongside another challenge to the policy that the justices are due to hear in the coming months. BUSINESS FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with defrauding investors in what regulators called "a house of cards," hours before he was expected to appear before a magistrate in the Bahamas. Read our weekly analysis of the wild world of cryptocurrencies. United Airlines said it is ordering 100 Boeing 787 Dreamliners and 100 737 MAX airplanes, as the air carrier pushes for post-pandemic growth and replaces older less-efficient aircraft. The order has list prices of about $43 billion. China is working on a more than $143 billion support package for its semiconductor industry, sources said, in a major step towards self sufficiency in chips and to counter U.S. moves aimed at slowing its technological advances. European Union energy ministers are meeting in Brussels to try to agree a bloc-wide cap on gas prices after months of deadlocked talks over whether the measure will ease Europe's energy crisis. After all-night negotiations, the European Union struck a political deal to impose a carbon dioxide emissions tariff on imports of polluting goods such as steel and cement, a world-first scheme aiming to support European industries as they decarbonize. Britain's jobless rate rose for a second month and there were other signs in data that some of the inflationary heat in the labor market is cooling as the economy stumbles, including an increase in older people looking for work. The UK recorded the highest number of working days lost to labor disputes in October for more than ten years, official data showed. WORLD CUP Can Morocco or Croatia shatter the World Cup's glass ceiling? FULL COVERAGE Quote of the day "Cathodes, anodes, separators, assembly lines, the full battery supply chain is here. This is a foot in the door to Europe." Dirk Woelfer of the German-Hungarian Chamber of Commerce in Budapest German car giants and Asian battery kings: a match made in Hungary Video of the day London swimmers take a dip as cold snap hits As snow blanketed Britain, swimmers took to the water at the Serpentine Lido in Hyde Park. And finally… U.S. to reveal scientific milestone on fusion energy Scientists at a national lab have made a breakthrough on fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars that one day could provide a cheap source of electricity, sources said. More from Reuters World Cup Sustainable Business Breakingviews Year in Review Thanks for spending part of your day with us. You are receiving this email because you signed up for newsletters from Reuters. No longer want to hear from us? Unsubscribe from The Reuters Daily Briefing. Terms, conditions, and privacy statement © 2022 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. 3 Times Square, New York, NY 10036