1. Donald Trump is handed a plan to halt US military aid to Kyiv unless it talks peace with Moscow.

2. Western supplies of artillery shells, slowed by months of political wrangling in Washington, have started to reach Ukrainian units. Meanwhile, the EU is set to open membership talks with Ukraine.

3. Israel's Supreme Court ruled that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students into the military. Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes on Gaza City early today.

4. Iranians choose a president on Friday in a tightly controlled election following Ebrahim Raisi's death in a helicopter crash.

5. China's Premier Li Qiang used his address at a World Economic Forum meeting in Dalian to hit back at accusations from the US and EU that Chinese firms benefit from unfair subsidies and are poised to flood their markets with cheap green technologies.