Anadolu Agency’s Morning Briefing - April 13, 2023

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

Leaked apparent US intelligence documents suggest the Biden administration is far from confident that Ukraine can quickly mount a counteroffensive that will oust Russian troops from the country, according to multiple reports Wednesday.

China asked the US on Wednesday to provide "an explanation" to the international community over the documents leaked from the Pentagon.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said Wednesday that the recently leaked Pentagon documents are “a mix of fact and fiction.”

There will always be ways to bring people together in Northern Ireland, US President Joe Biden said Wednesday as he was on a visit to Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement.

The leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said US President Joe Biden's visit will not change his party's more than year-long boycott of the region's power-sharing government.

"Türkiye will give a message to the West" through the country’s upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections, which not only the West but also the Islamic world closely follows, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrived in Jeddah on Wednesday in the first visit by a Syrian foreign minister to Saudi Arabia since 2011.

An Iranian technical delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday for the reopening of Tehran's embassy in Riyadh, Iran's official media reported.

Serbia on Wednesday denied selling weapons to Ukraine, saying it “will not sell weapons to the Ukrainian or Russian side.”

The UK on Wednesday announced a new package of sanctions targeting “those who have knowingly assisted sanctioned Russia oligarchs to hide their assets in complex financial networks.”

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday that he has postponed his visit to China after testing positive for the coronavirus.

A 56-year-old woman died from H3N8 bird flu in China, the World Health Organization said, in the first known human fatality from the avian influenza strain.

Annual consumer inflation in the US came in at 5% in March, significantly easing from 6% in February, according to official figures released Wednesday.