Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing - June 12, 2022

By Burak Dag

ANKARA (AA) - Anadolu Agency is here with a rundown of the latest developments around the world.

Montenegro has frozen 44 properties owned by 34 Russians who were sanctioned by the European Union, according to the country’s Interior Ministry.

European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen reached Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal as heavy fighting continues in eastern Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged the European Union to open accession talks with North Macedonia.

Even as Finland and Sweden’s continued support for the YPG/PKK terror group has held up their NATO membership bids, supporters of the terror group took to the streets of those countries’ capitals and held protests.

The US will stand by its friends as China adopts a more "coercive and aggressive approach to its territorial claims," its defense chief said.

A Bolivian court sentenced former President Jeanine Arez to 10 years in prison for an alleged plot to topple her rival Evo Morales in 2019.

Iran and Venezuela on Saturday signed a 20-year cooperation agreement during President Nicholas Maduro's visit to Tehran.

Israel placed early warning radar systems in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain to detect "missile threats" from Iran, according to local media.

Turkiye is pressing France to explain the death in police custody of a Turkish national last year after the emergence of a new video contradicting police accounts.

Since the coronavirus pandemic, the globe has seen a rise in the use of child workers, the International Labor Organization (ILO) warned on the eve of World Day Against Child Labor.