6. No respite for Ukraine`s east despite Putin`s truce
• Artillery exchanges pounded war-scarred cities in eastern Ukraine on January 6, 2023 despite Russian leader Vladimir Putin unilaterally ordering his forces to stop attacking for 36 hours.
• The brief ceasefire declared by Putin earlier this week was supposed to begin at 0900 GMT on Friday and would have been the first full pause since Moscow`s invasion in February.
• But witnesses heard both outgoing and incoming shelling in the frontline city of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine, after the time when the Russian ceasefire was supposed to have begun.
• Moscow`s forces also struck Ukraine`s second-largest city Kramatorsk in the east, the deputy head of Ukraine`s presidential administration said
7. Iran foils cyber attack on central bank
• Iran has foiled a cyber attack on its central bank, the country`s telecommunications infrastructure company said on January 6, 2023.
• Anonymous and other global hacking groups threatened in October to launch cyber attacks on Iranian institutions and officials in support of anti-government protests and to bypass internet censorship there.
• Amir Mohammadzadeh Lajevardi, head of the Infrastructure Communications Company, said the central bank was targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Thursday night, the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying. DDoS attacks attempt to cripple servers by overwhelming them with internet traffic.
• `These days, the largest volume of foreign attacks is against banks and financial institutions, internet providers and communications infrastructures, which have been repelled,` Lajevardi said
8. International fusion energy project faces delays
• An international project in nuclear fusion may face `years` of delays, its boss said on Friday, weeks after scientists in the United States announced a breakthrough in their own quest for the coveted goal.
• The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project seeks to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy. Installed at a site in southern France, the decades-old initiative has a long history of technical challenges and cost overruns.
• Fusion entails forcing together the nuclei of light atomic elements in a super-heated plasma, held by powerful magnetic forces in a doughnut-shaped chamber, called a tokamak
9. Israel, Palestine trade heated barbs at UN over Al-Aqsa visit
• Israeli and Palestinian envoys to the United Nations have traded heated barbs at a Security Council meeting over the controversial visit by an Israeli minister to Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem.
• Israel`s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, called the session `pathetic` and `absurd` while the Palestinian envoy accused the Jewish state of acting `with absolute contempt.
• The 15-member Security Council discussed the visit, which has enraged Palestinians, at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday following a request by the United Arab Emirates and China
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10. Tailenders hang on after Sarfraz`s fighting ton as Pakistan earn share of spoils with NZ
• In an incredibly tense finale, in the dying light, tailenders Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed staged Pakistan`s last act of defiance. New Zealand were looking to grab the final wicket to win this second and final Test and the clinch the series. They pleaded with the umpires to let play go on for as long as possible and bowled 21 deliveries to Pakistan`s last pair in desperate hope of getting that wicket.
• Every block by the duo was being cheered on after Sarfraz Ahmed`s dismissal for a magnificent 118 had brought them together at the crease. Amid nerve-shredding drama, Naseem even got a six and a four while Abrar fetched a boundary as Pakistan finished at 304-9 in their fourth innings to grab a draw after New Zealand had set the hosts a target of 319.
• The credit for Pakistan pulling off a draw, though, was largely due to Sarfraz`s anchoring knock
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