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“Seconded personnel have arrived in Sweden by regular flight,” the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs told TT news agency in a written statement on Friday.Hundreds of Iraqis stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set fire to the building in the early hours of Thursday, in protest against burning of the Quran and the Iraqi flag in Sweden, Xinhua news agency reported.The Iraqi government on Thursday decided to ask the Swedish ambassador to leave Iraq and recall its charge d’affaires from Sweden.A statement by the government said Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani issued the directives “in response to the repeated…

Mohammad Al-Bayedd, a 17-year-old from Al-Jalazoon refugee camp near Ramallah, was killed after he was shot in the head by Israeli soldiers during clashes in the Umm Safa village, the Ministry said in a press statement on Friday.Two other Palestinians were injured by Israeli soldiers, with one in serious condition, the Ministry added.Israeli soldiers stormed the village and fired teargas at dozens of Palestinians who clashed with the soldiers, causing their suffocation, according to Palestinian eyewitnesses.In a joint statement, the Israel Defense Forces and Border Police said Palestinians hurled stones and rocks at Israeli forces in Umm Safa, while a…

“Assailants riding a motorcycle targeted and killed the head of the WFP’s team in Taiz, who was on his way to the province for humanitarian and relief purposes,” the local security official said on condition of anonymity on Friday.The attackers targeted the UN employee, identified as a Jordanian national, with a barrage of bullets when he was leaving a local restaurant in At Turbah region, south of Taiz, resulting in his immediate death, the official added.The World Food Programme is an essential international organisation dedicated to combating hunger and malnutrition in crisis-ridden regions like Yemen, Xinhua news agency reported.The identity…

In the report, entitled “Climate in Italy in 2022”, the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) and the National System for Environmental Protection (SNPA) revealed a significant deterioration in the climate conditions compared to 2021 and to previous record temperatures.The report said that temperatures in Italy last year were on average 1 degree Celsius higher than in 2021, and 0.58 degrees Celsius higher than in 2018, when the previous heat record was registered. It was the hottest year since at least 1961, the first year modern record-keeping methods were employed, the report said.Temperatures last year were also 1.23…

Erdogan said Turkey had made significant efforts to let the peace prevail during the phone call made upon the request of Zelensky, according to the statement on Friday.The initiative, which allowed Ukraine to export its grain and other agricultural products from its Black Sea ports, was brokered by Turkey and the UN in July 2022 and expired on Monday after Russia’s unilateral withdrawal, Xinhua news agency reported.Initially valid for 120 days, the grain initiative was extended in mid-November 2022 for another 120 days until March 18, 2023. Russia then agreed to extend the deal for only 60 days. On May…

“We are appalled by reports that a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) team was assaulted by armed men in Khartoum yesterday (Thursday),” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday.According to OCHA, MSF reported that a 16-person team in Khartoum was aggressively assaulted by a group of armed men who physically beat and whipped them. The assailants detained one of the MSF drivers and, before his release, threatened to kill him. They also stole a vehicle.MSF said the incident happened as the team was moving medical supplies from the organisation’s warehouse to the Turkish Hospital, one…

“The procedure of the bank’s nationalisation, including the appointment of a new management, will be ensured as soon as possible for its smooth operation,” said a statement by the government on Friday.The Ukrainian Finance Ministry will temporarily take control of the bank, and seek to attract private investors once the martial law in the country comes to an end, it added.The resolution was adopted after the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) proposed to nationalise the bank, saying that the owners of the financial institution are Russian citizens, who were put under Ukrainian and international sanctions, Xinhua news agency reported.Sense Bank,…

“The termination of the Black Sea Grain Initiative will have a series of consequences, ranging from an increase in global food prices, famine in some regions, to potential new waves of migration,” Erdogan told reporters on his flight back to Turkey on Friday.”I believe we will ensure the continuation of this humanitarian movement by discussing the issue in detail with Putin,” he said.The Turkish President noted that Moscow’s expectations of the grain initiative should also be met, Xinhua news agency reported.”We know he also has some expectations from Western countries. Western countries need to take action in this regard,” Erdogan…

“We will not surrender to any decision issued against the interest of Lebanon, and I believe the country cannot bear such a decision,” Lebanese Director General of Public Security Elias al-Baissari told a delegation from the Lebanese Press Syndicate on Friday.On July 11, the European Parliament issued a series of decisions on the situation in Lebanon, emphasising that conditions are not met for the voluntary, dignified return of refugees in conflict-prone areas in Syria, Xinhua news agency reported.But al-Baissari, who has paid a visit to Damascus, said Syrian authorities have no problem with any voluntary and safe return of the…

NSW Health said on Friday in a statement that both cases of the same family contracted the disease overseas. They arrived in Sydney on July 14 and then visited several locations in the city while being infectious, Xinhua news agency reported.People who were in the same locations as the cases have been urged to stay alert to signs and symptoms of measles until August 7 and check their vaccination status.According to the statement, those most likely to be susceptible to measles are infants aged under 12 months who are too young to be vaccinated, anyone who is not fully vaccinated…