The shipment was reportedly refused in Lebanon due to a five-month delivery delay, Bloomberg reports The first grain cargo to leave Ukraine’s newly reopened ports has been rejected by a buyer in Lebanon due to a five-month delay in shipment, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

The telephone conversation could take place very soon, a state news outlet reports The leaders of Turkey and Syria – Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Bashar al-Assad – could hold telephone talks after it was suggested by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish state media reported on Tuesday citing sources within the Ankara government.

Warsaw will square up to EU leadership in a row over funding, a ruling party politician said Senior officials in the Polish conservative Law and Order (PiS) party have blasted the EU for what they perceive as a broken obligation to release billions of euros in funding, which had been frozen by Brussels as pressure…