Morning Briefing: June 14, 2024

Here is a rundown of all the news that you need to start your Friday with, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hailing a "historic day" after signing a 10-year security agreement with the US, a G7 agreement on a $50 billion loan for Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets, and a report by the UN Refugee Agency on the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide surging for the 12th consecutive year, hitting 120 million in 2023.

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• 'Historic day': Ukrainian president says after signing 10-year security agreement with US

• G7 agrees on $50B loan for Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets, says German chancellor

• Number of forcibly displaced people worldwide surges for 12th consecutive year, hitting 120M in 2023: UN Refugee Agency

• The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had conducted training launches during exercises of non-strategic nuclear forces.
• South Australia's premier has announced plans to ban political donations from state elections.
• Italy's prime minister kicked off a G7 summit in the southern region of Puglia to discuss global issues, including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
• Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira has stated that Brazil strongly advocates for an end to the violence in Gaza.
• Contracts have been signed between Ankara and Washington for the procurement of F-16s from the US, and work on the details is ongoing between respective delegations, Turkish National Defense Ministry sources said.
• The Palestinian group Hamas has accused US Secretary of State Antony Blinken of seeking to exonerate Israel from obstructing a cease-fire.
• The Israeli army reported heavy rocket fire from southern Lebanon, shortly after airstrikes on Hezbollah targets amid growing border tensions.
• The US military's V-22 Osprey transport aircraft will remain grounded until at least 2025 due to ongoing safety and performance evaluations.
• The Japanese parliament adopted a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Palestinian besieged enclave of Gaza.
• The Spanish prime minister said his country and Türkiye share the "urgent and imperative" need to achieve a cease-fire in Gaza.
• China indicated that it is taking countermeasures against a hike of tariffs by the European Commission on electric vehicle (EV) imports from the world's second largest economy.
• Ukraine and Japan signed a bilateral security agreement during the 50th G7 summit being held in Italy.
• Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that another "American, Anglo-Saxon veto" in the UN Security Council on any document aimed at ending the killing of civilians in Gaza and bringing peace to the region "will simply be a bloody crime."
• Some Apple employees and shareholders have accused the tech company of sending employee donations to organizations that have ties to the Israeli army and illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
• Indonesia announced that it will evacuate 1,000 victims of the ongoing Israeli military offensive in Gaza for medical treatment in the Southeast Asian country.
• The election results of the EU Parliament show that the majority of people rejected their respective countries' rulers for their policies, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, urging European citizens to wake up and realize where their governments' policies have brought them.
• At least 11 Israeli soldiers have been injured in the past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army reported.
• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's decision to transfer $35 million in Palestinian tax revenues to victims of Palestinian attacks is "extraordinarily wrongheaded" and should be reversed, the State Department said.
• Israel must conduct its military operations "consistent with international humanitarian law," the State Department said in response to Anadolu's questions about an ongoing raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
• UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Virginia Gamba pushed back against criticisms about the "relative silence" over the crisis in the Gaza Strip, asserting that she has "publicly spoken" about it several times.
• The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance group Islamic Jihad, said it launched rockets against cities and settlements adjacent to the Gaza Strip for "crimes committed by the Zionist enemy against our Palestinian people."
• President Joe Biden said the US would continue to push for a cease-fire proposal he announced for the conflict in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 37,000 people.

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