Russia and Ukraine held a new prisoner of war exchange on Wednesday. The swap has become the largest exchange since the beginning of the ongoing conflict, with each side surrendering 144 prisoners. Ukraine’s military intelligence service was the first to announce the exchange, releasing photos of the swap.

The bloc’s economy may contract later this year, Morgan Stanley economists predict The euro area will slip into a mild recession in the fourth quarter of this year amid reduced energy supplies from Russia, according to a report by Morgan Stanley published on Wednesday and seen by Bloomberg.

Pending approval from regulators, the US government will buy jabs specially ‘adapted’ to the Covid-19 Omicron strain, Pfizer said The US government is set to purchase more than $3 billion in additional coronavirus vaccines from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, which said the sale could include a new drug designed to protect against the Omicron variant, currently under review…