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Ongoing

• ↑ Google’s parent company Alphabet cuts 12,000 jobs, approx. 6% of the workforce — GOOGLE

• → 10 people killed in a shooting near Los Angeles after a Lunar New Year festival — UNITED STATES

• ↓ Elon Musk defends 2018 tweets in a securities fraud trial in San Francisco — TESLA

Long term

• → Russia’s war in Ukraine

• ↓ Anti-government protests in Iran