ANKARA (AA) - Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments around the world.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres thanked Türkiye for its "pivotal role" in the signing of a recent grain export deal, officially known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Two more ships left a Ukrainian port under the Istanbul grain export deal, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry.
A Russian envoy in Europe has been criticized for a tweet targeting Ukrainians. "No mercy to the Ukrainian population!" said Russia's Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov in a tweet that has since been deleted.
For Greece's main opposition party, SYRIZA-PS, expanding the scope of an investigation into a surveillance scandal is a “supreme patriotic duty,” according to media reports.
The party expects that the wiretapping scandal will help accelerate the collapse of the government for circumvention of democratic freedoms and authoritarian governance through opaque practices, according to I Avgi, a newspaper affiliated with SYRIZA.
An arson attack took place on a mosque in Veldhoven, near the Dutch city of Eindhoven, according to an official statement. The public news agency NOS reported that police suspected arson and the building was severely damaged.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group condemned the launch of a police investigation in Germany against President Mahmoud Abbas for his comments that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians.
The UN said it is in contact with Israeli authorities for the closure of seven Palestinian civil NGOs in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails threatened to stage a hunger strike to protest Israeli abuses. Detainees accused prison authorities of rescinding previous understandings reached in March under which they suspended their strike.
Tunisia’s Ennahda movement said the country’s new Constitution “lacks legitimacy and represents an attempt to legitimize the coup against (Tunisia's) revolution and dismantle its institutions and gains.”
Raging flooding along with relentless rains killed an additional 33 people across Pakistan in the past two days, aside from inundating large swaths, washing away infrastructures and triggering landslides, according to officials and media reports.