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Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments around the world.
Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke to South Korea’s President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol and stressed the need for improvement in bilateral relations.
Politicians, diplomats, opinion makers, and academics from around the world have gathered in Turkiye to discuss hot-button global issues at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, of which Anadolu Agency is the global communications sponsor.
The Russian Defense Ministry said it hit Ukraine's military airfields in Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk with high-precision weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered fighters from the Middle East "who want to support" the rebel regions of Donbas, to come to Ukraine.
As the Ukraine-Russia war marks its 16th day, NATO said it "understands frustration" in Ukraine while noting that "an escalation beyond Ukraine's borders would actually just cause even more suffering more death."
Google said it paused Google Play's billing system for users in Russia.
The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine since Russia launched a war on its neighbor has crossed 2.5 million, according to the UN refugee agency.
The office of the special UN envoy on Syria said a new round of talks involving the Constitutional Committee seeking a solution to the ongoing 11-year war will resume in Geneva for five days from March 21.
An informal summit of EU leaders continued in France with the bloc’s new strategies on energy and defense on the agenda.
The European Commission announced that it started an investigation on Google and Meta, formerly Facebook, to determine if the company broke EU competition rules with their online display advertising services.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the Vienna talks to revive the Iran nuclear deal need to be suspended due to “external factors.”
Britain sanctioned members of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, according to a government statement.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will make his first visit to Turkiye next week, said a deputy government spokesman.
More than one-third of the world is being represented at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, according to the Turkish foreign minister.
Senior officials from Afghanistan, Qatar and the US held a meeting on the sidelines of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) in Turkiye.
Turkiye's president strongly criticized the Western world for Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying a stronger response could have prevented Moscow’s current war in Ukraine.
Putin announced "positive shifts" in Russia-Ukraine peace talks at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow.
The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against US tech giant Meta after reports that it changed rules to allow calls for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers on its platforms in the context of Moscow's war on Ukraine.
Ukraine’s prime minister used an address to a high-level diplomatic forum to urge leaders to stop Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The governor of Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv province claimed Russian forces targeted a boarding school for special children with psychoneurological difficulties, which had 330 students inside at the time of the attack.
The Turkish Embassy in Kyiv is moving to Ukraine's southwestern Chernivtsi city, said Turkiye's Foreign Ministry spokesman.
The Russia-Ukraine war is the biggest disaster in European security since the end of the Cold War, according to a former head of the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe (OSCE).
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned about the possible involvement of Syrian mercenaries in Russia's war against his country.
North Korea started restoring tunnels at its nuclear site that was closed in 2018, said South Korean officials.
US President Joe Biden issued a stark warning to Russia, telling the Kremlin it will pay a "severe price" if it carries out a chemical weapons attack in Ukraine.
Biden announced the US has revoked normal trade relations with Russia.
Russia banned access to Instagram after media reports that its parent company, Meta, said it would allow calls for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of Moscow’s war on Ukraine.
The European Union is ready to impose new sanctions against Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said following a EU leaders’ summit in Versailles.
The United Nations said it has no evidence of any biological weapons programs in Ukraine despite Russia's repeated and so far unsubstantiated claims.
The G7 announced member countries have committed to take further measures in a series of actions against the Russian economy as soon as possible amid the war in Ukraine.
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador blasted a European Parliament resolution on the killings of journalists and activists in the Central American country.
Canada imposed new sanctions on individuals including billionaire Roman Abramovich and barred 32 Russian companies from receiving defense equipment, according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
The EU is preparing a fresh round of tougher sanctions against Russia, said the European Commission head, adding that the bloc will work to "suspend Russia’s membership rights in leading multilateral financial institutions,” including the IMF and the World Bank.
The UN warned of potential war crimes being committed in Ukraine as Russia continues its military operations in its eastern European neighbor.
Argentina lawmakers approved a deal with the IMF to refinance around $45 billion in debt.
YouTube said it is blocking channels affiliated with Russia-backed media outlets worldwide.
The Russian war on Ukraine has hit poorer countries with surging wheat and energy prices, Niger’s president said at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.
The US continued its sanctions campaign against prominent Russians, including three immediate family members of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The US welcomes Turkiye's role in finding a diplomatic solution to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, according to a State Department spokesman.
NATO’s chief stressed the alliance’s role in the Ukrainian resistance to ongoing Russian attacks during a speech delivered at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum.
Humanitarian association COJEP is committed to building an orphanage in Mali following a report by Anadolu Agency.
