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"We live in an increasingly hostile and unpredictable world, so it is crucial to nurture strong alliances with countries that share the same values.

Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz, Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek have traveled to the United Arab Emirates for a one-day working visit.

The duo will hold a series of meetings and will meet with President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to discuss cooperation opportunities between the two countries, said the Turkish Presidency's Communications Directorate.

At the beginning of his address, he said that he would still go to Brussels, immediately after the special envoy, Josep Borrell, announced that he and the Prime Minister of the so-called Kosovo, Albin Kurti, are summoned to an urgent meeting.

June 21, is the 20th anniversary of the EU-Western Balkans Summit in Thessaloniki, Greece. At this historic event, the European Union and the acceding and potential candidate countries from the Western Balkans at that time committed themselves to each other.

Türkiye was widely expected today to raise interest rates to fight inflation.

The central bank is expected to change course and raise rates on Thursday after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appointed a former Wall Street executive to head the institution following his re-election last month.

Kapidani is cataloguing any documents that he can find about his ancestors. "We've collected documents and testimonies from the elders, aiming to reconstruct their trip by land and sea," Kapidani told BIRN.

Back in the 1870s, Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the most culturally diverse parts of the Balkans, was mired in a multisided conflict.

Foreign companies are shifting investments and their Asian headquarters out of China as confidence plunges following the expansion of an anti-spying law and other challenges, a business group said Wednesday.

Greece and Saudi Arabia discussed on Wednesday that they are withdrawing their joint bid - along with Egypt - to co-host the 2030 FIFA World Cup.

In the show "Evenings with Vladimir Solovyov" on the Russia 1 channel, attacks on Western capitals are often discussed, and the guests and the presenter present President Vladimir Putin's full invasion of Ukraine as a proxy war between NATO and Moscow.

A large explosion occurred at the Romanian oil refinery Petromidia in Navodari, Romania - on the coast of the Black Sea. This was reported by the Romanian media digi24.ro.

According to initial data, the explosion was followed by a fire. A video with the consequences of the explosion also appeared on social networks.