- American officials are trying to accurately identify the two latest objects shot down by F-22 fighter jets during a week of unprecedented incursions over the United States and Canada. They are carefully working to determine if China is responsible, as concerns escalate about what Washington claims is Beijing's large-scale aerial surveillance program.

- In Turkey, the authorities are targeting contractors allegedly linked to the buildings that collapsed during the powerful earthquakes on February 6th. On Sunday, rescuers found more survivors among the rubble, including a pregnant woman and two children, in the disaster that has claimed the lives of over 33,000 people.

- The United States has blacklisted six Chinese entities it said were linked to Beijing's aerospace programs as part of its retaliation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States airspace.