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BRAZIL

G20 ministers stress sustainable growth

Ministers from the G20 group of largest economies agreed on Thursday that international trade and investment should foster sustainable development and enhance the participation of women in world trade. They also agreed on the need to speed up reform of the World Trade Organization to achieve a "faster, more agile and effective", conflict resolution system, Brazil's Vice-President and Trade Minister Geraldo Alckmin said. The proposals agreed by the G20 trade ministers meeting in Brasilia will be proposed to the group's leaders at the annual summit hosted by Brazil in November in Rio de Janeiro and be annexed to their joint statement. According to a final communique released on Thursday, finance chiefs expressed optimism for achieving a "soft landing" for the global economy and urged resistance to protectionism.

TURKIYE

PKK says it carried out attack on defense giant

The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for this week's attack on Turkish defense company TUSAS that killed five people in Ankara, it said in a statement. Two assailants, a man and a woman, carried out Wednesday's assault with automatic rifles and explosives on the headquarters of Turkish Aerospace Industries in Ankara. Twenty-two people were also wounded. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack, his spokesman Farhan Haq said on Wednesday. After the attack, on Friday, Turkiye carried out airstrikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight, hitting dozens of targets for the second night in a row, the Defense Ministry said.

Agencies via Xinhua