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Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, July 6th.

And this is your FT News Briefing.

Ukraine hasn't received a lot of the heavy weapons allies have promised

Latin American bonds and currencies are having a moment.

Plus, we'll meet some conservationists working to protect elephants

from poachers in the Congo.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

Western allies are falling behind in delivering the weapons they promised to Ukraine.

That's according to new data from the Keel Institute, a research group in Germany.

Overall, Ukraine has only received half of the heavy weapons its allies said they would deliver.

The US has sent just a quarter of the tanks its promised

and none of the infantry fighting vehicles.

And Ukraine could really use some of that extra support since it's trying to ramp up its counteroffensive.

Big asset managers are flocking to Latin American bonds and currencies.

The region's high interest rates and low inflation are really appealing.

Here's the FT's bonds and currencies reporter Mary McDougall.

I think it's really a story of central bank discipline.

Latin American countries acted much more quickly than the fed and other central banks by putting

interest rates up more quickly when inflation worries started emerging in 2021.

And now you're in the situation where they have high interest rates and they've succeeded in

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