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

North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile toward its eastern waters, according to South Korean media Wednesday.

The European Commission’s president on Wednesday proposed an oil embargo on Russia as she presented the details of the bloc’s sixth sanctions package targeting Moscow for the war in Ukraine.

The European Parliament’s plenary session on Wednesday endorsed the EU institutions’ position on introducing the same type of chargers for all portable electronic devices marketed in the member states.

In a tit-for-tat move, Russia on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 63 senior Japanese officials, including Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

An artificial intelligence-based performance monitoring platform for solar power plants developed by Turkish software company Loggma Digital Energy Solutions in the western city of Izmir has begun reaching international markets with exports so far to five countries.

Russia’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday claimed that it has disabled a railway line used by the Ukrainian military to supply its troops in Donbas with weapons sent by the US and other Western countries.

Spanish politicians celebrated record-breaking employment figures released Wednesday, which showed that more than 20 million people were working in the country for the first time.

At least 20 people were killed and many others injured Wednesday after a bus overturned in western Uganda, police said.

The US trade deficit hit a record high of $109.8 billion in March, with imports increasing 10.3% to $351.5 billion, the highest value on record, according to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Persistent rains that started Friday have displaced 800 families so far in eastern Uganda, according to authorities Wednesday.

France’s General Inspectorate of the National Police in the public prosecutor’s office in Nanterre opened an investigation Wednesday into the beating of two women wearing headscarves by three officers in the town of Asnieres on April 14, according to French news outlet Le Figaro.

Italy and Japan vowed to exert pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine, Italian media reported Wednesday.

Turkiye registered 1,132 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, according to official data released Wednesday.

COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline worldwide, but South African scientists that identified the omicron strain have reported two more sub-variants, the World Health Organization chief said Wednesday.

The rise in crude oil prices causes higher inflation and the coronavirus lockdown in China worsens supply disruptions, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, the State Department announced in the latest episode of a senior Biden administration official contracting the coronavirus.

The Russian Defense Ministry on Wednesday announced a three-day cease-fire​​​​​​​ for the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's Black Sea port city of Mariupol.