Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing

ANKARA

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

• Moscow criticized the European Parliament’s decision to designate Russia as a "state sponsor of terrorism."

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed that the UN Security Council adopt a resolution condemning all forms of "energy terror" as Russian strikes on cities across Ukraine decapacitate the country's energy infrastructure.

• France will mobilize international support for Ukraine in December, President Emmanuel Macron announced early Thursday, after Russian missiles struck multiple regions including the capital, Kyiv.

• Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was given the title of an honorary citizen of Kyiv by the Ukrainian capital’s city council.

• Foreign affairs ministers from 42 member states unanimously endorsed the accession of North Macedonia to the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM).

• More than 70,000 university staff in the UK went on their biggest strike Thursday over pay and pensions.

• The number of victims of domestic violence in Germany rose 3.4% in the last five years and the vast majority of them were women, according to a government report released Thursday.

• The UN Human Rights Council voted Thursday to establish an independent international fact-finding mission to investigate alleged human rights violations in Iran related to protests that began on Sept. 16.

• Hungary will ratify the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden in early 2023, the country's prime minister said Thursday.

• The Greek surveillance scandal is bigger than the US Watergate scandal, according to the rapporteur for the European Parliament's Inquiry Committee into Pegasus and other spyware, local media reported Thursday.

• Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as the country’s 10th prime minister Thursday following a days-long post-elections deadlock.

• A search and rescue operation for the recovery of 39 missing people continued for a fourth consecutive day Thursday following a devastating earthquake that struck the town of Cianjur in Indonesia’s West Java province.