Anadolu Agency's Morning Briefing

ANKARA

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

• North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile, the Japanese Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday.

• US President Joe Biden "is disappointed" by an OPEC+ decision to cut oil production, which he said would have negative effects on lower and middle-income nations, officials said Wednesday.

• Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will meet Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev during an informal EU summit in the Czech capital of Prague on Thursday, state media said.

• Anti-Muslim attitudes are widespread in Germany, according to a recent study conducted by the Expert Council on Integration and Migration.

• After Sweden's public broadcaster aired content insulting Türkiye and its president, the Nordic country's ambassador was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

• Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke to his Czech counterpart over the phone on Wednesday.

• The discussion with Jan Lipavsky focused on the European Political Community Summit, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement, without giving further details.

• The Turkish parliament on Wednesday ratified a motion to send troops to Qatar to help boost security during the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

• The German chancellor said Wednesday that he “explicitly supports” the MidCat pipeline, which would transport natural gas, and later hydrogen, from Spain to France and the rest of Europe.

• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday discussed Kyiv’s recent gains against Russian forces as well as further steps on its admittance to the 30-member military alliance.

Zelenskyy said Wednesday that three more settlements in the country’s Kherson region were liberated from Russian occupiers.

• Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the government Wednesday "to take into federal ownership the facilities of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and other property necessary for the implementation of its activities."

• The Delaware state judge overseeing the trial to have Tesla CEO Elon Musk complete his $44 billion offer to purchase Twitter said Wednesday that the Oct. 17 start date is still on.

• Over 1,100 people have been injured from a 5.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Iran's northwestern province of West Azerbaijan in the early hours of Wednesday, according to a health official.

• Brazil's two presidential candidates are beating the campaign trail this week as they seek to gain crucial endorsements ahead of a second runoff vote on Oct. 30.

• NASA and SpaceX launched a new crew including the first Native American woman into space Wednesday on the SpaceX Dragon rocket at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

• In sports news, the Turkish women's national volleyball team qualified Wednesday for the 2022 FIVB Women's World Championship quarterfinals with two matches to spare.

Portugal and Spain included war-torn Ukraine on Wednesday in the bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.