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Joe Biden during the speech. Jacquelyn Martin/AP 

Biden's state of the union speech  

Analysis: Biden delivered the first broadside before the election 

Joe Biden's State of the Union speech last night was likely the start of his re-election campaign, writes Sky News' James Matthews in an analysis. The message he wanted to convey was that he himself gets things done while the Republicans mostly obstruct. 

"We likely got to see Biden's upcoming campaign narrative - Joe the Builder vs. Republican demolition workers," he writes.  

Hufvudstadsbladet's Juri von Bonsdorff also sees the speech as part of Biden's expected re-election campaign. A sign of this, he believes, was that it took close to an hour before Biden got into foreign policy issues. 

"It is the American people who elect the country's president, and you rarely convince them with foreign policy," he notes.  

The Hill's Niall Stanage writes that Biden certainly said he wanted to find unity across party lines, but that the speech was actually about drawing dividing lines. Those lines will become even clearer when Biden formally announces he is running for re-election, which Stanage believes will happen shortly. 

"Tuesday's speech was in many ways his first broadside," he writes. 

Volodymyr Zelensky. Efrem Lukatsky / AP  

The Russian invasion. The outside world's response  

Zelenskyy visits London - to speak in parliament  

During Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj travels to London for a meeting with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, several media reports. The trip will be Zelenskyi's first visit to the country since the Russian invasion last February.  

During the visit, Zelenskyy will speak before the British Parliament and meet Ukrainian soldiers who are currently being trained in the UK.  

In a statement from Downing Street, Sunak also says that the training program should be expanded to include fighter pilots so that in the future Ukrainian pilots will be able to fly advanced NATO planes.

Erdogan. AP 

Reactions to the earthquakes  

Expert: The disaster has already become a political game  

The earthquake disaster in Turkey has already become politics, says Turkey expert Paul Levin on Twitter. He notes that President Erdogan is calling for a rally, but at the same time has only contacted the leader of the nationalist opposition party IYI – and not the leader of the main opposition party CHP.  

At the same time, CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu has been filmed in the disaster area saying that he does not intend to meet with Erdogan or any of his "profiteers", according to Levin. 

Sweden's ambassador to Turkey, Michael Sahlin, even fears that the election, which is scheduled for May, may be cancelled, Aftonbladet reports.  

President Erdogan has declared a state of emergency until then. The turbulent situation also means that Sweden's and Finland's NATO applications will end up in the backwater, says Sahlin. 

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. JAMES AKENA  

Political situation in Uganda  

Uganda closes UN human rights office  

Uganda will not extend the mandate of the UN Human Rights Council's local office in the country, several news agencies report. According to the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Uganda now has the capacity to independently monitor how human rights are maintained in the country. 

In the future, the government will instead communicate directly with the UN human rights office in Geneva. 

The announcement comes at a time when Uganda has been repeatedly accused of violating human rights, including by torturing political prisoners, AP writes.