🇹🇷 Turkiye is making every effort to have Russia and Ukraine extend a deal that secured grain export through the Black Sea last year, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday.

🗣 "We are working hard to ensure the smooth implementation and further extension of the grain deal. I discussed it with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday," the top Turkish diplomat told the 5th UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) in Qatar.

Cavusoglu recalled that the initiative had helped households in the least developed countries by bringing down global food prices.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️ Russian troops destroyed up to 180 Ukrainian soldiers near Krasny Liman during the day;

▪️ In the DPR, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed over 210 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

▪️ In the Kharkov region, Russian troops eliminated up to 40 Ukrainian soldiers;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the control posts of Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and electronic warfare equipment in the Avdeevka area;

▪️ Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and Zaporozhye region per day amounted to 80 troops;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Tonenkoe and Avdeevka in the DPR;

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces hit the command post of the nationalist "Azov" regiment (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia) in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️ Russian troops hit the command and observation posts of units of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the territorial defense in the DPR and Zaporozhye region;

▪️ In the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed the warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of the 110th Brigade of Territorial Defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

▪️ Russian air defense systems destroyed 12 UAVs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a day.

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"Do not blame France for what depends on you"

🇫🇷 🇨🇩 During his African tour, French President Emmanuel Macron started arguing with the DR Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi when the latter recalled France's role in the 1994 genocide.

Tshisekedi inquired about how France was going to help restore security in DR Congo. Instead of a diplomatic response, Macron started railing against his counterpart, right in front of journalists.

🗣 "Since 1994, and it is not France's fault, I'm sorry to say it in such blunt terms, you have not been able to restore the sovereignty, neither military, nor security, nor administrative, of your country. This is also a reality. We must not look for culprits outside this affair," said Macron.

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What's in Historic Ocean Treaty Reached After Decade of Talks?

Representatives of more than 100 countries have signed The High Seas Treaty after ten years of negotiations. The agreement was reached on March 3 at the UN Headquarters in New York City. The latest round of negotiations lasted 38 hours.

According to the document, 30% of the world's oceans will now become a protected area by 2030, bringing in serious restrictions on their use, possibly including a complete ban on fishing and exploration activities like deep sea mining.

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Serbian President Denies Reports of Supplying Weapons to Ukraine

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that media is peddling blatant lies when it claims that his administration authorized sales of weapons to Ukraine on Sunday.

"It is a blatant lie. Serbia did not send weapons to anyone. Serbia makes and sells munitions… We have sold no munitions or other weapons to either Ukraine or Russia," he told reporters in Qatar.

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‘Whole Nation Strategy’: Beijing Calls for ‘Key Tech Breakthroughs’ Amid China-US Chip Race

The booming global microchip industry is believed to prosper even further over the next seven years, probably growing to more than $1 trillion in revenues by 2030.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has pledged to effectively use state resources to secure key breakthroughs in such areas as semiconductors, amid the tech competition between Beijing and Washington.

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🇭🇺 Supplies of lethal military assistance to Kiev make some EU and NATO nations parties to the Ukraine conflict, even if they are not directly involved in the hostilities, Hungarian Parliamentary Speaker Laszlo Kover said on Sunday.

💬 "NATO and EU members have already sent almost $60 billion worth of lethal military aid to Ukraine, one of the warring parties. It means that separate EU and NATO member states are participants of this war, even though they are not fighting yet," Kover told a Hungarian broadcaster.

📌 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban cautioned the European Union last month that it could sleepwalk into an armed conflict with Russia by sending increasingly deadly weapons to Ukraine. He argued that a negotiated solution was needed to avoid further casualties.

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Thar She Blows! Study Reveals How Toothed Whales Vocalize Through Nose

A team of researchers has discovered how toothed whales manage to produce incredibly powerful sounds that help them track down prey deep underwater.

The new study, published earlier this week, suggested that the whales possess a "sound production system based on air driven through nasal passages" that is similar in function to "laryngeal and syringeal sound production."

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