Global Courant
ISTANBUL
Here’s a rundown of all the news you need to start your Monday, including Israel’s airstrikes on Palestinians, Emmanuel Macron’s calls for order in France, and Sweden tightening its border entry plans.
BEST STORIES
The Israeli army killed at least three Palestinians and injured 13 in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin in a deadly airstrike and raid early Monday.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that the condition of three of the injured is serious. According to Anadolu, Israeli warplanes targeted a house in Jenin with three missiles.
After the airstrike, the Israeli army with the help of armored military bulldozers raided the city and blockaded the Jenin refugee camp.
After the mass protests and violence sparked by the police killing of a teenager last week, French President Emmanuel Macron urged the government to take all necessary measures to restore order in the country.
At a meeting with senior officials, he asked ministers to “continue doing everything in their power to restore order and maintain calm”.
According to the Interior Ministry, 577 vehicles and 74 buildings were set on fire during the fifth night of the protests, and 871 fires were recorded in the streets and other public spaces.
The Swedish government said on Sunday it wanted to stop people “who come to Sweden and try to commit crimes” after a 37-year-old man of Iraqi descent burned a copy of the Islamic holy book, the Qur’an, in Stockholm last week. .
In May, the government decided to re-implement border controls due to the growing threat to Sweden in connection with events such as previous demonstrations where copies of the Qur’an were burned.
The incident received widespread condemnation from around the world.
NEWS IN BRIEF
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the burning of the Qur’an in Sweden last week and called for measures to be taken to ensure that such provocative acts are not repeated. USA, Baltimore, Maryland, local police said the search for the shooter is ongoing. Saudi Arabia summoned the Swedish ambassador to protest the authorities’ decision last week to allow extremists to burn a copy of the Qur’an in front of a mosque in Stockholm. Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said Poland will deploy 500 more police to the border with Belarus “due to the tense situation”. Additional officers will join the 5,000 border guards and 2,000 soldiers guarding the border.Iran has said it will not send its newly appointed ambassador to Sweden after the previous envoy’s term expired following the desecration of the Qur’an by a far-right extremist in Stockholm. .Greece’s main opposition party, SYRIZA, elected its interim leader on Sunday, after Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, following the party’s defeat in last month’s elections.Israel has purchased 25 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets from the US in a $3 deal approved the acquisition. Billion, the Department of Defense said. The number of F-35s in the Israeli Air Force inventory will now rise to 75. More than a dozen people abducted by members of the Allied Defense Forces (ADF) rebel group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo more than a month ago managed to escape, according to local sources.
SPORTS
The 2023 Wimbledon Championship, one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments and the oldest in the world, will kick off on Monday. Sports events will end with the men’s singles final to be held on 16 July.
Serbian superstar Novak Djokovic and Kazakh player Elena Rybakina won the men’s and women’s singles titles, respectively, last year.
Red Bull’s Dutch driver Max Verstappen won the Austrian Grand Prix, the 10th leg of the 2023 Formula 1 season.
Starting the race on pole, Verstappen first saw the checkered flag, completing the 71-lap race in one hour 25 minutes 33,607 seconds on Spielberg’s 4,318 kilometers (2.68 miles) Red Bull Ring circuit.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit Beijing on July 6-9 to meet with senior Chinese officials.
He will be the second member of the Biden administration’s Cabinet to travel to China, after Foreign Minister Antony Blinken, who visited China in June.
Yellen will discuss in Beijing the importance of managing relations responsibly, communicating directly about areas of concern, and working together to address global challenges with officials of the People’s Republic of China – the world’s two largest economies – said in a statement from the ministry.
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