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1. North Korea fired off two fresh rounds of short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Monday, marking the regime's second missile test in just eight days in its latest series of protests against the ongoing Seoul-Washington joint military drills.

2. According to the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov in a tweet on Sunday, Russia has made a 'nuclear hostage' out of Belarus, and taken "a step towards the internal destabilization of the country."

3. Germany’s Deutsche Bank stocks took a nosedive on Friday amid growing investor fears about the banking sector once again, dragging down other major banks across Europe.

1. According to the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency, North Korea tested a new nuclear underwater attack drone under leader Kim Jong Un's guidance this week from March 21st to 23rd for three days.

2. Terraform Labs co-founder Kwon Do-Hyung, more commonly known as Do Kwon, has been charged with fraud by U.S. prosecutors several hours after his arrest on Thursday local time in Montenegro.

3. More than a million people in France joined the 9th nationwide protests on Thursday to reject the government's proposed pension reform bill that would raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

1. The Fed raised its key rate by 25 basis points to a range of 4.75 percent to 5 percent on Wednesday, lower than a 50 basis points hike forecasted by analysts.

2. The National Assembly on Thursday passed a revised grain management act that obligates the South Korean government to purchase rice when rice production exceeds 3 percent of estimated consumption or when the price drops by more than 5 percent. 

3. South Korea on Thursday decided to drop a complaint it filed with the World Trade Organization against Japan over Japan's export curbs on high-tech materials as Japan started its procedures to put South Korea back onto its “white list”.

1. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Chips and Science Act will limit the expansion of semiconductor producing capacity in foreign countries of concern, including China, to 5 percent for companies that receive funds under the new act.

2. The meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended on Tuesday. After their meeting, the two leaders signed and released a joint statement at the Kremlin in Moscow.

3. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on Wednesday indicted Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung without arrest for his alleged profiteering scandals regarding the Wirye and Daejang-dong development project.

1. President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday during a Cabinet meeting that South Korea and Japan have to overcome history to normalize relations with Japan. Yoon also said there “still exist forces that hail exclusive nationalism, shout anti-Japanese sentiments, and take political gains”.

2. According to the latest climate report released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Earth’s temperature will rise 2.8 degree Celcius by 2100 if countries continue to maintain their current ways of acting.

3. South Korea revised down its 2030 targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector on Tuesday from 14.5% to 11%.

1. A U.S. B-1B strategic bomber came back to South Korea for joint exercises on Sunday, as North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the East Sea.

2. The South Korean government lifted the indoor mask mandate on public transportation starting from Monday which means the mask requirement is lifted for most indoor facilities with the exception of hospitals and high-risk areas.

3. Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first state visit to Russia on Monday, stirring speculations from the global community on his intentions.

1. In regards to the South Korea-Japan summit, the ruling party gave a positive evaluation, stating that a new era of mutual prosperity between the two countries have opened, while the opposition party criticized the meeting as "the most humiliating moment" in the country's diplomatic history.

2. South Korea's finance ministry said Friday that the country continues to experience an economic slowdown amid sluggish exports and a slowdown in the recovery of domestic demand due to the tightening of monetary policy.

3. According to South Korea's industry ministry Friday, the latest acts announced by the European Union on critical raw materials and net-zero goals do not contain discriminatory clauses against foreign companies, unlike the United States' Inflation Reduction Act.

1. President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met for a summit in Japan today signaling a significant warming of long-strained relations between the two countries. The summit will be followed by a joint press briefing and a state dinner.

2. According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Thursday, North Korea fired a long-range ballistic missile, presumed to be an intercontinental ballistic missile, toward the East Sea, hours before President Yoon Suk Yeol is to embark on a two-day visit to Japan.

3. Fears of a banking crisis spread into Europe, with stocks of Credit Suisse crashing on the back of recent bank failures of Silicon Valley Bank in the U.S.

1. The South Korean government announced Wednesday that it will end the mask mandate for public transportation next week, while the mandate will remain in place for medical facilities, pharmacies and other vulnerable facilities.

2. Just a day ahead of South Korea-Japan's Presidential summit, South Korea's leading steelmaker POSCO Holdings has donated four billion won, or around three million U.S. dollars, to a fund providing compensation to victims of Japan's wartime forced labor.

3. According to the U.S. Pentagon Tuesday, a Russian jet struck a U.S. spy drone over the Black Sea and knocked it out of the sky, in one of the first direct military confrontations between the two nations’ forces since the war in Ukraine began more than a year ago.

1. According to Seoul's military Tuesday, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea on Tuesday, a day after South Korea and the United States kicked off its Freedom Shield exercise.

2. The United States released the details of its largest-ever defense budget on Monday as it increased its missile defense budget in preparation for the hypersonic and ballistic missile threats from China, Russia and North Korea.

3. According to statistics released by the Bank of Korea on Tuesday, the import price index as of February rose 2-point-1 percent from January. This figure was due to last month's increase in international oil prices and a rise in the won-dollar exchange rates.