Morning Briefing: July 20, 2023

Nazim Sheikh

World Courant

ISTANBUL

Right here’s a rundown of all of the information it is advisable to begin your Thursday, together with the storming of the Swedish Embassy in Iraq, billion greenback offers signed between Türkiye and the UAE, a capturing incident in New Zealand, and a warning from Russia.

TOP STORIES

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Protesters in Iraq stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad and set it on hearth early Thursday over a latest burning in Stockholm of the Quran.

Followers of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stormed the embassy after an Iraqi nationwide burned a duplicate of the Muslim holy ebook in Sweden final month.

Movies circulating on-line confirmed lots of of protesters breaching the embassy and waving flags and chanting.

Smoke was rising from the embassy constructing, in accordance with an Anadolu reporter in Iraq.

Türkiye and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday signed a complete of 13 offers value $50.7 billion, the Turkish Communications Directorate mentioned.

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Each nations have additionally reached an settlement to ascertain a Excessive-Degree Strategic Council, to be chaired by the presidents of Türkiye and the UAE.

The events additionally determined to advance current cooperation in fields together with vitality, transportation, infrastructure, and e-commerce.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mentioned that nation will be certain that relations with the UAE are addressed often on the highest degree by the high-level strategic council mechanism.

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No less than two individuals had been killed and several other others injured Thursday after a person opened hearth at a development web site in Auckland, New Zealand.

”A number of accidents have been reported, and at this stage, we are able to affirm two individuals have died,” the New Zealand Police mentioned, confirming that he male offender additionally died, along with his victims.

The incident comes forward of the primary match of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup scheduled for Thursday between New Zealand and Norway.

Police launched an investigation and urged the general public to avoid the world.

Russia on Wednesday mentioned that it’s going to think about all ships en path to Ukrainian ports within the Black Sea “potential carriers of navy cargo,” after Moscow withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Initiative earlier this week.

A Russian Protection Ministry assertion mentioned that the choice went into impact as of Wednesday midnight (2100GMT), and that it was taken “in reference to the termination of the Black Sea (Grain) Initiative and the curtailment of the maritime humanitarian hall.”

“Accordingly, the nations of such vessels will likely be thought of to be concerned within the Ukrainian battle on the facet of the Kyiv regime,” the assertion added.

NEWS IN BRIEF

The US is continuous to hunt info after an American soldier unlawfully entered North Korea, the White Home saidUkraine mentioned Tuesday that its forces have superior towards Russian troops on the Kupiansk entrance in Kharkiv, Deputy Protection Minister Hanna Maliar mentioned on Telegram.Greece struggled with raging wildfires for the third day in a row on Wednesday, with firefighting planes from France and Italy arriving to assist put out the flames.A suspected gasoline explosion ripped aside a busy street in South Africa’s largest metropolis of Johannesburg on Wednesday, damaging a number of passenger automobiles and injuring dozens of individuals.Thailand’s parliament has delayed its subsequent spherical of voting to decide on the nation’s thirtieth prime minister till subsequent week, a prime lawmaker mentioned Wednesday.Hundreds of writers have urged AI firms to hunt permission earlier than incorporating copyrighted works into their applied sciences.Japan’s crime fee rose greater than 21% within the first six months of the present 12 months in comparison with 2022, its first rise in 21 years on a year-on-year foundation.Fb mum or dad firm Meta’s well-liked WhatsApp messaging service suffered a mass outage on Wednesday within the second such incident in simply over per week.

SPORTS

Dutch midfielder Xavi Simons moved to Crimson Bull Leipzig on a season-long mortgage from Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday.

With 19 objectives beneath his belt, Simons completed the Dutch top-tier Eredivisie as the highest objective scorer final season with PSV Eindhoven and was a part of the PSV facet that gained the 2022-23 Dutch Cup.

He helped Paris Saint-Germain win the 2021-22 Ligue 1 title.

Colombian winger Juan Cuadrado on Wednesday inked a contract with Inter Milan on a free switch till June 30, 2024.

“Juan’s childhood was marked by difficulties, with the younger Cuadrado serving to his mom pack the fruit she bought on the market,” Inter mentioned in a press release.

The Nerazzurri heaped reward on Cuadrado, saying, “His want to face out, nevertheless, led him to hunt pleasure and happiness on the earth of soccer.”

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

Euro space annual shopper inflation fee dropped to a 17-month low in June, primarily led by falling vitality costs, in accordance with flash estimates launched on Wednesday. Client costs rose 5.5% year-on-year in June, the slowest hike since January 2022, in accordance with the EU’s statistical authority.

Headline inflation slowed from 6.1% in Might 2023 and eight.6% in June 2022.

On new agreements signed between Türkiye and the UAE value round $51 billion, the Turkish Treasury and finance minister mentioned that offers additional cemented ties between the 2 nations.

“We’re grateful for the UAE’s continued robust assist for Türkiye and their confidence in our program,” Mehmet Simsek mentioned on the UAE-Türkiye Enterprise Discussion board, which was organized by Türkiye’s Overseas Financial Relations Board (DEIK) within the capital Abu Dhabi.​​​​​​​



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