Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing – Oct. 24, 2022

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

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pulled out of the Conservative leadership race.

Former British Finance Minister Rishi Sunak announced that he will seek to replace the departing Liz Truss as prime minister.

Italy’s new government was officially sworn in. Along with the country’s first-ever woman premier, Giorgia Meloni, 24 Cabinet ministers, including six women, took their oaths of office before President Sergio Mattarella in Rome.

Former US President Donald Trump has suggested that he might have to run for president in 2024. In reference to his supporters who voted him into office in 2016, Trump said they are "stronger than ever before."

Türkiye’s president slammed the failure of Western human rights defenders to do anything to help a group of mothers protesting and seeking the return of their children, who they say were kidnapped by the PKK terrorist group.

Author Salman Rushdie has lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand following a stabbing attack in New York in August, according to his agent.

A Russian warplane crashed in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing both pilots, local media reported.

Russia's defense minister discussed the ongoing war in Ukraine with his French, British and US counterparts in separate phone calls, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

Israel’s High Court rejected petitions seeking the annulment of a US-brokered maritime deal with Lebanon, paving the way for the agreement to be approved, according to local media.

A Pakistani soldier was killed in what the army said was a terrorist attack from Afghanistan's soil.

A Palestinian NGO has documented over 5,300 arrests by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank this year.

The Algerian presidency has announced that for health reasons, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will not attend the Nov. 1-2 Arab summit in Algiers.

At least three people were killed and eight others wounded when the al-Shabaab terrorist group attacked a popular hotel in the southern port city of Kismayo, police said.​​​​​​​

Authorities in Burundi announced that the country’s land borders with Rwanda had been reopened more than five years after they were closed.