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At least 16 people killed and 29 injured after a truck hurtled into pedestrians in Turkey, the health minister says. It was the second major crash of the day after a previous crash with a bus and an ambulance in the Gaziantep province killed another 16 people, according to local media.

Turkey surprised its Nato allies last week by saying it would not view their applications positively, mainly citing their history of hosting members of groups Ankara deems terrorists. The Swedish foreign office said earlier on Monday that senior representatives of Sweden and Finland plan to travel to Turkey for talks to address Ankara's objections.

Turkey has officially changed its name to Turkiye. Meanwhile, the United Nations has agreed to recognise the change while giving an approval on Thursday and said change will be immediate.

Turkish authorities arrested a man in connection with the July assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.

Turkey is rebranding its internationally recognised name as Türkiye. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the new name “represents and expresses the culture, civilisation, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way”. But the change is about more than phonetic pronunciation.

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto called it “a very necessary agreement” after signing a joint memorandum addressing Turkish concerns and clearing the way for the two Nordic nations to become NATO members.

Boncuk, a devoted pet, spent days waiting outside a hospital in Trabzon, Turkey, where her sick owner Cemal Senturk was being treated. Boncuk followed the ambulance that transported Senturk to hospital before making multiple visits to front door. According to Senturk's daughter, Aynur Egeli, she would take Boncuk home but the dog kept going back. After six days apart Boncuk and Senturk were reunited when he was discharged

'We demanded assurances and guarantees from the Ukrainian side that nothing like this would happen again, that the humanitarian corridors would not be used militarily,' said Putin during a video meeting with his coordination council. Putin added that should Russia pull out of the grain deal again, it would supply the equivalent volume of grain itself. The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, confirmed Russia's compliance with the deal and the continued movement of grain shipments on Wednesday. Russia said last week that it had suspended its involvement, accusing Ukraine of abusing Black Sea corridors enabled by the deal by using them for military purposes, reigniting fears of rising food prices