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Anadolu Agency’s Morning Briefing – March 18, 2022

Peru’s Constitutional Court on Thursday ordered the release of former President Alberto Fujimori, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses during his administration in the 1990s.

At least 65 Turkish citizens and their relatives have been evacuated from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, a local official said Thursday.

At least four Katyusha rockets struck an area around Balad Air Base in Iraq’s northern Saladin province, where US and other foreign contracted personnel are located.

Two people were killed Thursday in attacks by Russian forces that targeted the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov was detained Thursday during a police operation.

The US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Thursday to halt normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus over Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

The World Health Organization (WHO) gave Turkiye an award Thursday for its “successful fight” against the coronavirus pandemic.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday he agrees with President Joe Biden that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine.

The French Finance Ministry was partially evacuated due to a bomb threat Thursday afternoon, local media reported.

The number of civilian deaths recorded since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine has reached 780, while 1,252 others have been wounded, the UN Human Rights Office said Thursday.

The EU’s space agency said Thursday that it suspended a joint Euro-Russia project to determine if there has ever been life on Mars because of Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

The UN Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate of its mission in Afghanistan, which is now under Taliban control.

Britain said Thursday that it is sending an anti-air missile system alongside 100 military personnel to Poland to protect its airspace against any Russian aggression.

Thousands of Sudanese demonstrated in the capital Khartoum on Thursday to protest price hikes and poor living conditions.

Russia cannot take into consideration the ruling by the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) directing Moscow to stop the war in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.

Turkiye was re-elected to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) for the 2022-2028 term, the country’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

Three Panama-flagged ships have been hit by Russian missiles in the Black Sea since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the administrator of the Panama Maritime Authority (AMP) said Wednesday.

Source: Anadolu Agency