Live updates: Germany boosts defense budget above 2% of GDP

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : BERLIN -- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany is committing 100 billion euros ($112.7 billion) to a special fund for its armed forces, raising its defense spending above 2% of its GDP.
52% : It markets itself as "ideally suited" for areas where internet service is unreliable or unavailable.___UNITED NATIONS --
51% : On Saturday, the agency also reported closing the Russian airspace for planes from Romania, Bulgaria, Poland and the Czech Republic in response to them doing the same.____WASHINGTON -- The U.S., European Union, and United Kingdom on Saturday agreed to block "selected" Russian banks from the SWIFT global financial messaging system and to impose "restrictive measures" on its central bank in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine.
50% : Britain has slapped sanctions on Russian banks, companies and oligarchs in response to the invasion, and agreed with the European Union and the U.S. to block some Russian banks from the SWIFT global financial messaging system.
38% : The United Nations says it has confirmed at least 240 civilian casualties, including at least 64 people killed, in the fighting in Ukraine that erupted since Russia's invasion on Thursday -- though it believed the "real figures are considerably higher" because many reports of casualties remain to be confirmed.

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