TURKEY: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has “broken off” high-level talks with Greece over disputes in the Mediterranean, he told MPs yesterday.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis “no longer exists” for him, he said, after Mr Mitsotakis allegedly sought to block Turkey from purchasing US weaponry.

The mutually hostile neighbours are both in Nato and Mr Erdogan highlighted the rift within the US-led bloc, reiterating his opposition to allowing Finland or Sweden in.

MYANMAR: The military dictatorship and opposition accused each other yesterday of planting a bomb that went off in central Yangon on Tuesday, killing one and wounding nine.

State-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar said the bomb came from the People’s Defence Forces, an armed movement set up by the National Unity Government (NUG), comprised of elected officials unseated by last year’s military coup.

But the NUG said the bombing was part of the junta’s “genocidal” terrorism against the civilian population.

ISRAEL: Dozens of warplanes carried out long-distance drills over the Mediterranean on Tuesday in what analysts said was a simulated attack on Iran.

The Israeli Defence Force said yesterday it had tested “long-range flight, aerial refuelling and striking distant targets.”

Israel regularly bombs the besieged Gaza Strip and neighbouring Syria and has repeatedly threatened to pre-emptively strike at Iranian facilities it regards as a threat, but Iran is much further away.

POLAND: A deal to release €36 billion (£31bn) in withheld EU pandemic recovery funds could be struck this week after MPs voted to scrap a disciplinary body the EU said interfered with judicial independence.

Critics said the powers have been transferred to illegally selected judges, with Dutch party Renew Europe saying Poland was getting away with “small, cosmetic changes” while continuing to undermine the rule of law.

Poland had also been fined €1 million a day since last October for breaching EU law, though it has refused to pay.