3️⃣ *Stephen Curry and Jayson Tatum combined for 27 points* as Shaquille O'Neal's *_"Team Shaq"_ cruised to victory in the new-look NBA All-Star game* in San Francisco. 🏀 🇺🇸 *Curry,* playing on his home court at Golden State's Chase Center on Sunday, *reeled off a string of trademark three-pointers* to help his star-studded line-up *coast to a 41-25 victory over Charles Barkley's _"Team Chuck."_* *Boston Celtics star Tatum finished with 15 points after delivering a dominant performance* in a starting line-up that also included Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard and James Harden. *Team Shaq's preparations for the game had been dealt a blow* shortly before tip-off when *Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James withdrew from the line-up*, citing a nagging foot and ankle injury.

2️⃣ A *Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people on board crash-landed at Toronto's main airport,* flipping upside down and leaving *at least 18 people injured but causing no deaths*, officials said. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 *Endeavor Air Flight 4819 with 76 passengers and four crew was landing* on Monday afternoon *in Canada's largest metropolis,* having flown from Minneapolis in the US, the airline said. *No explanation of the cause of the accident*, or how the plane ended up flipped with its wings clipped, has been provided. *Paramedic services told AFP three people were critically injured* -- a child, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s. *Images on local broadcasts and shared on social media* showed people *stumbling away from the upside down CRJ-900 plane*, shielding their faces from wind and snow.

3️⃣ *Japan has pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60% in the next decade from 2013 levels* but climate *campaigners said the target fell short of what was needed under the Paris Agreement* to limit global warming. 🇯🇵 🏭 *Under the Paris accord,* each country is supposed to provide *a headline figure to the United Nations for cutting heat-trapping emissions by 2035,* and a detailed blueprint for how to achieve this. *Japan is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels* as the world's *fifth largest single-country emitter of carbon dioxide* after China, the United States, India and Russia. On Tuesday, *Tokyo's environment ministry said the country would slash emissions by 60% by the 2035* fiscal year. But Masayoshi Iyoda from *environmental group 350.org* noted that *scientists say an emissions cut of 81% by 2035 is needed for Japan to honour its commitments* to the 1.5 degree objective.

2️⃣ A *Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people on board crash-landed at Toronto's main airport,* flipping upside down and leaving *at least 18 people injured but causing no deaths*, officials said. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 *Endeavor Air Flight 4819 with 76 passengers and four crew was landing* on Monday afternoon *in Canada's largest metropolis,* having flown from Minneapolis in the US, the airline said. *No explanation of the cause of the accident*, or how the plane ended up flipped with its wings clipped, has been provided. *Paramedic services told AFP three people were critically injured* -- a child, a man in his 60s and a woman in her 40s. *Images on local broadcasts and shared on social media* showed people *stumbling away from the upside down CRJ-900 plane*, shielding their faces from wind and snow.

Japan has pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60% in the next decade from 2013 levels* but climate *campaigners said the target fell short of what was needed under the Paris Agreement* to limit global warming. 🇯🇵 🏭 *Under the Paris accord,* each country is supposed to provide *a headline figure to the United Nations for cutting heat-trapping emissions by 2035,* and a detailed blueprint for how to achieve this. *Japan is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels* as the world's *fifth largest single-country emitter of carbon dioxide* after China, the United States, India and Russia. On Tuesday, *Tokyo's environment ministry said the country would slash emissions by 60% by the 2035* fiscal year. But Masayoshi Iyoda from *environmental group 350.org* noted that *scientists say an emissions cut of 81% by 2035 is needed for Japan to honour its commitments* to the 1.5 degree objective.

3️⃣ *Japan has pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60% in the next decade from 2013 levels* but climate *campaigners said the target fell short of what was needed under the Paris Agreement* to limit global warming. 🇯🇵 🏭 *Under the Paris accord,* each country is supposed to provide *a headline figure to the United Nations for cutting heat-trapping emissions by 2035,* and a detailed blueprint for how to achieve this. *Japan is heavily dependent on imported fossil fuels* as the world's *fifth largest single-country emitter of carbon dioxide* after China, the United States, India and Russia. On Tuesday, *Tokyo's environment ministry said the country would slash emissions by 60% by the 2035* fiscal year. But Masayoshi Iyoda from *environmental group 350.org* noted that *scientists say an emissions cut of 81% by 2035 is needed for Japan to honour its commitments* to the 1.5 degree objective.

1️⃣ President Volodymyr *Zelensky is set to meet US Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference* with a warning against trusting Russia's Vladimir Putin, as *concerns mount in Kyiv* and among its European allies *that the Ukraine war will be settled over their heads.* 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 The conference starts on Friday, *days after US President Donald Trump and Putin held a watershed phone call* that has shaken Ukraine and America's NATO allies, almost *three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion.* *Trump said he had agreed with Putin to start Ukraine peace talks soon* and exchange friendly visits. The *new US administration also signalled Ukraine would have to give up territory to Russia* and that NATO membership for Kyiv was _"impractical"_. *Vance, ahead of his speech in Munich on Friday, sought to dampen European fears*, saying _"of course"_ European allies should be involved in any talks to end the war in Ukraine.

2️⃣ *Israel has threatened to resume _"intense fighting"_ in Gaza if hostages were not released this weekend,* while Hamas insisted it remained committed to the ceasefire deal after accusing Israel of violations. 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇺🇸 *Under the terms of the truce,* which has largely halted more than 15 months of fighting in Gaza, *captives were to be released in batches in exchange for Palestinians in Israeli custody.* So far, *Israel and Hamas have completed five hostage-prisoner swaps.* *The deal has come under increasing strain in recent days,* prompting diplomatic efforts to salvage it. Israeli PM Benjamin *Netanyahu said that* _*"if Hamas does not return our hostages by Saturday noon, the ceasefire will end,* and the IDF (Israeli military) will resume intense fighting until Hamas is decisively defeated"._

3️⃣ *An Indonesian court has handed lengthy prison terms to poachers who killed dozens of rare Javan rhinos,* court rulings seen by AFP show, *drawing praise from conservationists* who said it would help deter lucrative wildlife crime. 🇮🇩 🦏 *The rhinoceros, endemic to Indonesia's most populous island, is critically endangered.* Authorities believe there are *only around 82 remaining in Ujung Kulon National Park* in western Java -- their last stronghold. In 2023, authorities uncovered the *criminal gang that confessed to killing 26 rhinos over the span of five years* in the 120,000-hectare park. *A court in Indonesia's Banten province this week sentenced the mastermind of the gang to 12 years in prison* and gave five of his co-conspirators 11 years, according to rulings posted on its website.

2️⃣ *US President Donald Trump has offered to sell state-of-the-art fighter jets to India* as he and *Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to ramp up trade,* rekindling a bond that defies the new US administration's punitive approach to much of the world. 🇺🇸 🇮🇳 *Modi,* only the fourth world leader to visit the White House since Trump's return, *described the fellow nationalist as a friend* and told him he was *adopting a take on his _"Make America Great Again"_ slogan.* *Trump said that he found a _"special bond"_ with Modi and India* and, in an uncharacteristic if ironic show of humility, *complimented Modi as being a "much tougher negotiator" than he is.* *Successive US administrations have seen India as a key partner* with like-minded interests *in the face of a rising China,* and Trump announced that the new administration was *ready to sell one of the top US military prizes -- F-35 jets.*