Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing - June 13, 2022

By Burak Dag

ANKARA (AA) - Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments around the world.

Türkiye’s security concerns about the NATO membership bids of Sweden and Finland are legitimate, the alliance’s chief reiterated Sunday.

Türkiye will discuss with Russia and Ukraine steps to ensure exports of Ukrainian grain to the world, the Turkish president said Sunday.

Touted as the largest-ever military drill in the Baltic Sea, NATO’s Baltops 22 exercise wrapped up on the Swedish Island of Gotland with the participation of member and partner nations.

More than 50 trade ministers at the World Trade Organization’s ministerial meeting in Geneva issued a supporting statement Sunday for embattled Ukraine and its ability to trade, underlining the importance of maintaining open and predictable markets.

A day after Argentina seized a Venezuelan Boeing 747 cargo plane at Buenos Aires Airport and detained its crew, Iran's top private airline on Sunday denied reports that the aircraft belonged to it.

The Iranian currency plummeted to an all-time low against the US dollar on Sunday amid soaring inflation and a nuclear deal standoff.

Moroccan authorities have banned a controversial British film about the daughter of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Italians are voting in an important round of local elections Sunday along with a referendum on reforms to five existing laws.

The Tripartite Mechanism that supervises talks between Sudan’s rivals postponed the intra-Sudanese dialogue.

In June 1958, during the heart of the US Civil Rights era, a young couple in the state of Virginia committed a crime when they fell in love and got married.

The US fast food chain McDonald's reopened in Russia under the new name Vkusno i Tochka, which translates as "Tasty, period."