TOKYO—Global shares rose Thursday as investors tried to gauge U.S. inflation, tensions between Russia and Ukraine, and the impact of the pandemic. France’s CAC 40 added 0.5 percent in early trading to 7,168.36, while Germany’s DAX rose 0.7 percent to 15,595.10. Britain’s FTSE 100 edged up 0.1 percent to 7,651.65. U.S. futures were mixed with the contract for the Dow industrials up 0.1 percent to 35,678.00. The S&P 500 future was 0.1 percent lower, at 4,572.25. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.4 percent to finish at 27,696.08. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.3 percent to 7,288.50. South Korea’s Kospi added 0.1 percent to 2,771.93. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng edged up 0.4 percent to 24,924.35, while the Shanghai Composite edged up 0.2 percent to 3,485.91. Japan extended measures in Tokyo and some other places to curb outbreaks of the coronavirus for three weeks, until March 6, to try to bring the spread …