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1 China demand: China on Wednesday demanded India rescind a ban on more Chinese mobile phone apps amid tension between Beijing and other governments over technology and security. A foreign ministry spokesman accused India of violating global free- trade rules and discriminating against Chinese companies.

2 Rejecting ransom: Denmark’s biggest news agency will stay offffline for at least another day following a hacking attack this week and has rejected a ransom demand by hackers to release locked data, the wire service said Wednesday. Ritzau CEO Lars Vesterloekke couldn’t say how big the ransom demand was because those behind the “professional attack” had left “a fifile with a message” the agency didn’t open following instructions from its advisers.

3 Possible pardon: President Donald Trump has told aides he plans to issue a pardon to his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The person said that while nothing is fifinal until Trump does it, he has made it clear it is one of a string of pardons he plans to issue before leaving offiffice.

4 Checking tanker: After four months of waiting, the United Nations said it had been granted permission by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to inspect and repair a rickety, rusting tanker moored near the coast that is threatening to leak four times the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.

5 Cyclone nears: A cyclone gathered speed offff India’s eastern shores in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday and was poised to make landfall around midnight. Cyclone Nivar, the fourth named storm in the North Indian Ocean this year, was expected to make landfall near Puducherry, a city about 90 miles south of the manufacturing hub of Chennai.