Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing - Sept. 2, 2022

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

Poland’s ruling party leader said Warsaw would officially demand reparations from Berlin for losses caused by Germany in World War II, which are estimated to total 6.2 trillion zlotys ($1.3 trillion).

Brazil's Amazon forests recorded their worst August for fires since 2010.

Sexual assault is up 13% in the US military, according to an annual report released by the Department of Defense.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) delegation inspected the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine as fears have grown about a potential catastrophe.

Shamima Begum, a schoolgirl who left the UK to join the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group, has said she was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian intelligence agent.

A groundbreaking anti-terror protest in Türkiye’s southeastern Diyarbakir province entered its fourth year as families refuse to leave until they are reunited with their children, who they say were abducted by the PKK terrorist group.

The full extent of a surveillance scandal that has rocked Greece’s political scene should be revealed immediately, said former Greek premier Kostas Karamanlis.

Ukraine’s president urged Israel to join international sanctions against Russia.

US authorities arrested the attorney for the right-wing Oath Keepers group over charges in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol building riots.

Steel giant ArcelorMittal confirmed that the company will not reopen its factory in Bilbao, Spain as planned this week due to high energy prices.

A prominent Yemeni judge was killed Thursday, one day after being kidnapped in the rebel-held capital Sanaa.

The remains of Africa’s oldest dinosaur, which lived more than 230 million years ago, have been found in Zimbabwe.

The Japanese yen fell to its lowest level against the US dollar since 1998 as the monetary policy gap between the Bank of Japan and the US Federal Reserve is expected to widen.

Asylum seekers in the UK who will be deported to Rwanda as part of the government’s controversial deportation scheme include victims of torture and human trafficking, a critical report revealed.

Romania has expressed interest in buying 18 of the famed Turkish fighter drones known as Bayraktar TB2s, local reports said.

British households’ spending power is expected to be slashed by an average of £3,000 ($3,470) by the end of the year as living standards drop by the largest margin in a century, a think tank said in its report.

Russian energy giant Gazprom expressed its willingness to fulfill its obligations to provide gas to Europe, the Tass news agency quoted the Russian presidential spokesman as saying.

Moscow does not have to close itself to Europe in the wake of Schengen visa restrictions for Russians, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The chairman of Russian energy giant Lukoil, Ravil Maganov, died after falling from a hospital window, the Moscow police said.

After briefly halting traffic in the Suez Canal, the stuck tanker AFFINITY V has been refloated by tugboats.