First ship with Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa

The ship is expected to dock off the Bosphorus Strait on Tuesday for inspections [Forward to a friend]( | [Subscribe]( | [View in your browser]( [Top of The World]( --------------------------------------------------------------- What The World is following First ship with Ukrainian grain leaves the port of Odesa toward Lebanon Credit: Michael Shtekel/AP Ukraine After a deal brokered by the UN and Turkey, a ship carrying Ukrainian grain [departed]( the Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday with over 26,000 tons of corn bound for Lebanon. The Razoni, a Sierra Leone-flagged cargo ship, is expected to dock at the entrance of the Bosphorus Strait on Tuesday, where it will undergo inspections by a joint team from Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish and UN officials. This is the first grain shipment since the war in Ukraine started. Sanctions imposed on Russia and a raging conflict in eastern Ukraine [have prevented]( export ships from leaving the ports safely. The war in Ukraine has led to a food and energy crisis with the UN warning of a risk of famine in different parts of the world. Taiwan House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in Singapore in the first stop of her tour of Asia, which will also include Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. There are speculations in Taiwanese media, including The United Daily News, China Times and pro-ruling party newspaper Liberty Times, that Pelosi [will visit Taiwan]( on Tuesday after visiting Malaysia and spend the night. Her visit would likely elicit an angry response from China, which considers Taiwan to be a breakaway province and objects to all acts that could be seen as support for Taiwan as an independent sovereign state. Lebanon Thursday will mark two years since the deadly blast at Beirut’s port — considered the world’s biggest nonnuclear explosion — and there [hasn’t been anyone]( held accountable in the country's probe into the negligent storage of dangerous chemicals. Over the weekend, grain storage silos at the port, which were damaged during the explosion that killed 200 people, [partially collapsed](after being consumed by fire for weeks. Many in Lebanon blame government corruption and mismanagement for the tragedy, but the political elite's stronghold on power is believed to be an impediment for justice. Some of those charged in the investigation were reelected to Parliament earlier this year. --------------------------------------------------------------- From The World [Humanitarian rescue boat stranded in Spanish port over ‘administrative persecution,’ NGO says]( [The Open Arms Uno, recently acquired by the Barcelona-based, nongovernmental organization, Open Arms, has a hospital, 26 hospital beds, four, semirigid inflatable boats, and a landing strip for a helicopter, and there’s room for over 1,000 people.]( Credit: Alan Ruiz Terol/The World Open Arms, a sea rescue nongovernmental organization, has a new vessel with a hospital and room for over 1,000 people, but says Spain is using bureaucracy to [block its departure](. [‘Memory speaks’: How to reclaim your mother tongue without having to relearn it from scratch]( [Julie Sedivy and other family members visiting her father’s family gravesite in his village of Moravská Nová Ves.]( Credit: Courtesy of Julie Sedivy When Julie Sedivy was 4, her family fled their native Czechoslovakia and settled in Canada. Years later, a return trip to the Czech Republic made her realize she could quickly recover her mother tongue through memories. Sedivy [recounts her linguistic journey]( in a new book called, "Memory Speaks." --------------------------------------------------------------- Bright spot Give it up for the Lionesses 👏🏽. For the first time in over a half century, England won a major international soccer tournament over the weekend — the Women's Euro 2022 championship ⚽. The team beat Germany 2-1 after extra time, and the [celebrations continue](. [Screen shot from Twitter.]( Credit: Twitter Lionesses In case you missed it on The World --------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to subscribe to The World's Latest Edition podcast using your favorite podcast player: [RadioPublic](, [Apple Podcasts](, [Stitcher](, [Soundcloud](, [RSS]( [The World logo]( [The World on Facebook]( [The World's Twitter account]( [Donate]( | [Forward to a friend]( | [Subscribe]( | [Edit your subscription]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [View in your browser]( Top of the World is written weekday mornings by the team at [The World](. [The World]( is produced by [PRX]( and [GBH](.