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French President Emmanuel Macron was caught in a heated exchange with residents of Mayotte, a French territory devastated by Cyclone Chido last week. On Thursday, Macron faced a crowd of angry locals in the island's largest slum, where many were still struggling with water shortages nearly a week after the storm.

Arrest warrants issued yesterday against Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, former Defense Minister Yoav Galland and the head of the armed forces department of Hamas Mohammed Daif represent a historic development for the International Criminal Court, which has been struggling for 22 years to have its jurisdiction recognized and to gain enforcement powers.

Turkish energy company Aksa Enerji has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the Shymkent Governorship in Kazakhstan to establish a natural gas combined cycle power plant.

The installed capacity of the gas power plant will be 500MW, Aksa said in a filing with Borsa İstanbul.

Heads of state and government, dozens of foreign ministers, academics and think tanks from across the world will be in Antalya to attend the annual diplomacy forum, which will focus on the role of diplomacy in the age of conflicts.

"For all our family members that might not hear this announcement and the measures to be taken, please inform them by giving them a phone call. We must move to a safer place to protect ourselves from the potential rising waters during this cyclone."

With an average daily calorie intake of 3,762, Türkiye came in fifth place out of 184 countries on the ranking created by Oxford University.

Researchers from Oxford have recently ranked 184 countries in terms of their citizens' average daily calorie consumption, where Bahrain ranked first, followed by the U.S., Ireland, Belgium and Türkiye.

Voice actors around the globe are mobilizing against the unregulated use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and clone human voices that they fear poses a threat to their livelihoods.

Greek Journalist Thanasis Koukakis attends a European Parliament Inquiry hearing in Brussels amid an investigation into the use of the Pegasus spyware in Greece, 8 September 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET

Dutch MEP and president of the spyware investigation committee Sophie in 't Veld presents draft findings of the inquiry in Brussels, November 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET

The death toll from Cyclone Freddy has risen to more than 1,000 people, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera said today.
The president did not give an explanation for why the death toll jumped so much from an estimate of more than 500 people on March 20, but hundreds of people are still missing in Malawi, Reuters said.