EU agrees to Turkey demands for refugees

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

• The European Union has agreed to meet Turkey’s demands over the refugee crisis. As part of the agreement, Turkey will receive three billion Euros as well as an additional funding to spend on the accommodation of the Syrian asylum seekers. Talks on better EU-Turkey ties will also be accelerated.
• The United Nations has raised the alarm over an imminent humanitarian crisis for asylum seekers stranded near the Greek-Macedonian border. The spokesman for the U-N High Commissioner for Refugees Babor Baloch says the asylum seekers are going through harsh weather conditions.
• Syrian planes, assisted by Russian Air Force, have airdropped aid for residents of the city of Dayr al-Zawr which is under the control of Daesh terrorists. The packages had food and medical supplies in them. Some 200,000 people living in the city had been deprived of any sort of aid since last year.
• The United States says it won’t scale down its ongoing joint military drills with South Korea despite the North’s threat. The Spokesman for the US State Department said Washington is committed to South Korea’s security adding that Pyongyang’s posturing will only make the war games more important.
• Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid says the terrorists behind Monday deadly attack on security forces were planning to establish a Daesh emirate. The attack killed at least 53 people, including 35 militants and eleven members of the security forces as army and police barracks came under attack in Ben Guerdan.
• In the Indian-controlled Kashmir, a massive funeral ceremony has been held for a slain pro-independence fighter. Dawood Sheikh was killed during a joint operation by the Indian army and police forces in Kashmir’s Kul-gam district on Sunday. He was accused of killing an army soldier and a local leader back in 2014.
• Iran's economy minister says the country’s crude oil sales will reach two million barrels a day in the near future. Ali Tayyebnia says appropriate steps have been taken to set the stage for Iran’s return to global markets. Iran is currently selling up to one-point-five million barrels of oil per day.
• The UN is warning that hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia is reaching an alarming level. The agency has blamed the crisis on a prolonged drought caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon. It also says scarcity of water and animal feed nationwide could lead to crop failures and livestock deaths.

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