Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing

ANKARA

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Sunday with US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the capital Kyiv, the presidency said.

Russia said Sunday that it destroyed weapons supplied to Ukraine by the US and European countries and a runway at a military airfield near Odessa.

International Workers' Day, also known as May Day or Labor Day, was marked in Turkiye and across the world Sunday.

The evacuation of civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol has started and around 100 people are on their way to safety, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday.

Six rockets hit Khabat district of Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), officials said Sunday.

A riot broke out when the leader of the far-right Danish party Stram Kurs (Hard Line) burned another copy of the Muslim holy book, the Quran, on Sunday.

May Day demonstrations in the German capital Berlin on Sunday evening were overshadowed by street clashes between police and mostly young radical leftist protesters as well as anarchist groups, according to local media reports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that more than 350,000 civilians have been rescued through humanitarian corridors since the beginning of the war with Russia.

The evacuation of civilians who are trapped at the Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's city of Mariupol continues, the UN said Sunday.

A three-story building collapsed in Nigeria’s Lagos state Sunday night.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Sunday denied reports claiming that Moscow will end its war on Ukraine on May 9, the anniversary of Russia’s victory over the Nazis in World War II.

The Russia-Ukraine war has deepened the food, energy and economic crises in Africa and worldwide, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday.