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World in brief: June 28, 2023

NATO: The military bloc’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said today he is calling a summit of leaders from Turkey, Sweden and Finland on July 6 to address Turkey’s continued veto on Sweden’s accession.

Turkey accuses Sweden of harbouring Kurdish separatists it deems “terrorists.” Nato members must be unanimously in favour of a new member.

SOUTH KOREA: Citizens became one or two years younger today as the age-counting system was reformed to align with the West’s.

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