Kim Jong-un has celebrated the successful launch of a spy satellite, calling it a self-defense breakthrough for Pyongyang North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has heralded the military breakthrough achieved with the country’s first successful launch of a spy satellite, saying it would help protect Pyongyang from the “dangerous and aggressive moves” of its adversaries.

Türkiye’s markets plunged on Monday as investors braced for a runoff in the presidential election. Neither the country’s long-standing leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, nor his opponent, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, managed to win outright in the first round of voting.

Sanctions designed to hurt Moscow are destroying the global economy, the foreign minister says EU businesses have lost at least €250 billion ($266.6 billion) due to the sweeping sanctions imposed on Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Wednesday.