26 August 2022•Update: 28 February 2023
ANKARA
Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments around the world.
- The California Air Resources Board (CARB) approved an historic regulation that will require 35% of all new vehicles sold in the state to run on electricity or hydrogen by 2026 and 100% by 2035.
- A federal judge gave the Justice Department one day to make public a redacted version of the warrant affidavit the FBI used to search former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate for classified documents.
- Women were allowed for the first time to watch a league match between two prominent football clubs at Azadi Stadium in Tehran.
- The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine was disconnected from the electricity grid for the first time, the state energy operator said.
- Any attempt to disconnect Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) and divert it to Russian-occupied areas is "unacceptable," said the US State Department.
- The UN human rights chief called for the immediate demilitarization of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to recruit 137,000 more staff into the country's armed forces for a total of nearly 2.04 million amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.
- The president of Germany said that far-right attacks in the northeastern city of Rostock 30 years ago had caused shame for the country.
- Karim Benzema was named the 2021-22 UEFA Men's Player of the Year.
- Russia rejected claims that it has “lost interest” in resolving the Syria issue amid the Ukraine war.
- Türkiye will continue with anti-terror operations until its southern border is secure, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
- The US carried out more retaliatory strikes against Iran-backed fighters in northeast Syria after American forces stationed in the area came under rocket fire that injured three troops.
- Italy’s Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Rome will not abandon the Ukrainian people.
- The ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) is leading in the country’s general elections, according to provisional results released by the National Electoral Commission.
- A senior aide to the Greek prime minister did not rule out the Russian factor as the wiretapping scandal continues to shake the country’s political scene, the local newspaper Avgi reported.
- Myanmar has detained former UK Ambassador Vicky Bowman and her husband in the city of Yangon, said British authorities.
- Israel and Türkiye are moving to the next phase of relations courtesy of a well-managed normalization process, said the Israeli chargé d'affaires in Ankara.
- Türkiye has never pursued a policy of dividing people in the Balkans, North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski said.
- The trial of three journalists from Finland’s largest newspaper accused of publishing classified defense intelligence will start next month, with proceedings kicking off in the capital Helsinki.