The volume of weapons requested by kyiv exceeds NATO capabilities

The scale of military assistance requested by Ukraine exceeds NATO's production capacity, Rob Bauer, chairman of the alliance's military committee, said Saturday.

"The volume of weapons and ammunition that Ukraine is requesting is enormous. (...) The scale and volume of weapons used exceeds our production capabilities," Bauer said at a news conference in Oslo".

According to him, now NATO countries "give away weapons and order new ones, and there is no balance in this process".

In addition, the head of the military committee noted that, when deciding on the supply of weapons to Kiev, countries must also think about the risks to the security of their state and the North Atlantic Alliance as a whole.

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Chrome and Edge users must update the browser due to a security error

Google and Microsoft have released emergency updates to their web browsers to address a recently revealed security vulnerability. This worrying threat has the potential to impact the privacy and security of Internet users.

The security breach is a problem that is affecting the way images are processed in the WebP format, which is one of the extensions most used by different portals to upload their content, since it reduces the weight of the files and adapts to different formats.

This vulnerability could allow attackers to take control of compromised devices and there are reports that indicate that impacts have already been detected, which is why the world's most important browsers are taking measures to stop its advance.

How to update Chrome and Edge

Google has responded quickly to this threat. The company has already implemented an update in Chrome, for Mac, Linux and Windows platforms. This version directly attacks the recent vulnerability and strengthens the security of users.

For those who have automatic updates enabled, it is likely that the new version has already been downloaded and installed on the system. For those who do not have it, it is recommended to do the process soon to avoid risks. The process is as follows:

1) Open the Browser

2) Click on the three dots on the right side at the top of the screen.

3) Go to Settings.

4) Go to About (Browser)

After this, the browser will look for the latest update and if it finds one, it will start installing it, so we will have to restart the page.

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Kim Jong Un's armored train: "A sweet home"

Images in Russian and North Korean state media showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un traveling to Russia for a long-awaited meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on an armored train, a method of travel that has been used by the Kim dynasty for decades. Since taking power in 2011, Kim Jong Un has made 10 foreign trips in total to five countries and has traveled by train on several of those occasions, Reuters reported, including to Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, for a summit with the then President of the United States, Donald Trump, in 2019. In April 2019, Kim also traveled by train to the Russian port city of Vladivostok to meet Putin for the first time, the last meeting between the two men so far. "If you travel by train, you can command the entire country from anywhere, receive all faxes and emails, and access all reports because all communication facilities are available. So for Kim Jong Un, you can feel as comfortable as their home," former North Korean official Ko Young Hwan told Reuters news agency on Tuesday. Ahn Byung-min, a South Korean expert on North Korean transportation, told Reuters that the armored trains that have transported the North's leaders over the years have between 10 and 15 carriages each, some of which are reserved exclusively for Kim Jong Un, like a private bedroom, while other carriages carry key members of the leader's entourage as security guards. The green with yellow stripes train that Kim Jong Un was photographed boarding to Russia is the same design that the dictator's late father, Kim Jong Il, appeared to use to visit Russia in 2001, according to Reuters. Russian military commander Konstantin Pulikovsky, who spent time aboard the train with Kim Jong Il during the visit to Russia in 2001, recalled that "it is possible to order any dish from Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and French cuisine." In his memoirs, Pulikovsky said that live lobsters were transported to the train to ensure the availability of fresh seafood, while cases of red wine from Bordeaux and Burgundy were imported from Paris. Even Vladimir Putin's private train "didn't have the comfort of Kim Jong Il's train," he said. Kim Jong Il's train was also described as having "conference rooms, an audience room and bedrooms. Satellite phone connections and flat-screen televisions have been installed so the North Korean leader can be briefed and issue orders," according to a report. report by the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo in 2009. Kim Jong Un's father traveled by train for each of the three occasions he visited Russia. The train was described by North Korean state media as "a sweet home and office" for Kim Jong Il.

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Ruling for the expropriation of YPF: Argentina must pay US$16 billion.

When calculating compensation, the New York judge opted for the value closest to what the plaintiff fund was requesting. It was a measure by Cristina Kirchner's government.

As a result of an adverse ruling issued by the United States Justice Department, Argentina must pay $16 billion for the expropriation of YPF shares, carried out improperly.

The catastrophic sentence of the judge of the Southern District of New York, Loretta Preska, was known this Friday and she opted for the most unfavorable scenario for the country. For Argentina, the trial was already lost and it intended to pay no more than 5,000 million dollars.

The difference between the figure of the sentence and the Argentine claim lay in calculating interest according to the date of the arrival of Argentine officials in YPF and the date on which the expropriation was approved by law of Congress.

Argentina wanted Judge Preska to indicate that the date of expropriation had been May 7, 2012, when the expropriation law was passed. That way, the compensation would be from that day. In addition, she wanted the retroactive annual interest rate that they were going to apply (from 2012, when it was expropriated, to 2023) to be 0%. That would give close to USD 5,000 million.

However, the Burford fund considered that YPF's intervention materialized on April 16, when the Minister of Economy at that time, Axel Kicillof, was appointed auditor of the company and displaced the private shareholders. From that moment until May 7, YPF shares fell 25%.

In that scenario, Burford would have collected around USD 8.3 billion, even with 0% interest, as Argentina wanted. In any case, the litigants aspired to be recognized with a rate of 8% annually, which would bring the check to USD 16,000 million, an amount that the American judge finally decided.

Now, the $16 billion that Argentina will have to pay is more than the value of 100% of YPF today, whether measured by the official dollar or the blue dollar. In the first case, the oil company has a capitalization of USD 12,200 million, while in the second, in free dollars, its value would be USD 5,298 million.

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