🇺🇸🪖❗️ — 📰 Reuters: US Army has decided to ground all helicopter pilots, except those on critical missions, for additional training after two recent helicopter crashes killing 12 soldiers

🇯🇵🌾📃 — 📰 Nikkei Asia: Japan to weigh food security law in face of Ukraine, Taiwan risks
— "Japan's government will consider proposing legislation to enable a nationwide response to a food emergencies as geopolitical and climate risks raise the specter of shortages, Nikkei has learned.

The new powers could include ordering emergency increases in grain production or the sale of private-sector food inventories.

After the disruption to global wheat and fertilizer supplies caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the risk of a Taiwan crisis has spurred greater awareness of the need to ensure import-dependent Japan can feed itself."

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https://archive.is/i0f2p

🇺🇸💸📉 — Infamous CNBC host Jim Cramer says the collapse of First Republic Bank $FRC could mark the end of the banking crisis

🇮🇷🤝🇮🇱 — 📰 Anadolu Agency (April 18, 2023): Son of Iran’s deposed Shah visits Israel, meets with Netanyahu

— "Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the eldest son of the late Shah of Iran, who was deposed in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

Pahlavi was officially welcomed at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, where he was greeted by Israel's Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel.

As part of his program, Pahlavi attended a ceremony at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in West Jerusalem marking the start of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, according to i24NEWS."

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https://archive.is/dJAtG