Anadolu Agency’s Morning Briefing

ANKARA

Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments around the world.

Nearly 200 Turkish citizens who were evacuated from Sudan via Ethiopia arrived in Istanbul early Wednesday as fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces entered a second week.

President Joe Biden issued a grim warning to North Korea on Wednesday, saying should Pyongyang launch a nuclear attack on the US or its partners, it would meet its "end."

China will send a special representative to Ukraine, President Xi Jinping told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday in the first phone call since Russia launched the war last year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on retaliatory measures to the seizure of Russian assets abroad.

NATO fighter jets intercepted Russian reconnaissance flights over the Baltic Sea, the German Air Force said Wednesday.

Oil trade routes are now at least five times longer than they were prior to the Russia-Ukraine war, raising the prospect of increased emissions from longer shipping routes.

Türkiye on Wednesday criticized the inauguration of the Nemesis Monument in the Armenian capital Yerevan which honors perpetrators of assassinations against Ottoman and Azerbaijani officials in the early 1920s.

Migrants who risk their lives to arrive in the UK on small boats are "criminals," British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said in a televised interview Wednesday as the government presses ahead with its crackdown on Channel crossings.

Ten security personnel and their driver were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, officials and local media said.

Average life expectancy at birth for Turkish citizens was at 78.3 years in the 2018-2020 period, down from 78.6 years in the 2017-2019 period, official data revealed Wednesday.

Manchester City grabbed a vital 4-1 English Premier League week 33 win against Arsenal on Wednesday.