* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held separate phone talks with his Indian and Pakistani counterparts on Saturday, during which he urged calm and self-restraint after the recent attack in the Indian-controlled Kashmir, the Egyptian foreign ministry said Sunday in two statements.
* The 11th session of the Cambodia-Russia Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation will be held on Monday via video conference, the Cambodian Foreign Ministry said in a press release on Sunday.
* Bolivia and Chile on Saturday signed an agreement to scrap visa and official residency requirements for holders of diplomatic and official passports from the other country.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia's readiness to negotiate with Ukraine without preconditions during his earlier talk with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Saturday.
* French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that Ukraine is ready for an unconditional ceasefire. On his official social media X account, Macron wrote that he held a "very positive" exchange with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome.
* Russian authorities had detained a man suspected of planting a car bomb that killed a senior Russian army official, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Saturday.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday expressed satisfaction with the latest round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States, according to the official news agency IRNA.
* The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) approved on Saturday the appointment of Hussein al-Sheikh as vice president of its executive committee and the State of Palestine.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday called for the expansion of regional cooperation in the fight against terrorism in phone talks with Pakistani and Indian prime ministers.
* The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said Sunday that its flour supplies in Gaza have been depleted as Israel continues to restrict the entry of food and humanitarian aid.
* At least 25 people were killed and 800 others injured in a huge explosion at a port on Saturday in Iran's southern province of Hormozgan, media reported Sunday. The exact cause of the incident has not been determined yet.
* At least 34 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in airstrikes carried out by the Israeli army across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Gaza's civil defense said.
* Israel's military said on Sunday that it had intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen toward the Dead Sea early in the morning before it crossed into Israeli territory.
* A major Kurdish conference concluded Saturday in the northeastern city of Qamishli with the adoption of a joint political vision for resolving the Kurdish issue within a democratic, decentralized Syrian state.
* Multiple casualties were reported after a driver drove into a crowd at a street festival in Vancouver, Canada, on Saturday evening, according to local police.
* The trade turnover between Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan has risen 20 percent since the beginning of this year, the press service of the Uzbek president announced on Saturday.
* Myanmar attracted 690.19 million USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the fiscal year 2024-25, according to figures released by the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) on Saturday.
* Saudi Arabia's non-oil exports soared to an unprecedented 515 billion Saudi Riyals (137.33 billion USD) in 2024, marking a 13 percent increase from 2023, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.
* The Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has signed four memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with leading aid agencies to assist returnees and displaced families, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
* Filipinos have been coping with dangerous high temperatures as parts of the Philippines, particularly on the main Luzon Island, endure heat indexes reaching up to 43 degrees Celsius, the state weather bureau PAGASA said Sunday.
* Uganda on Saturday declared an end to the Ebola Sudan Virus Disease (SVD) outbreak after completing a 42-day mandatory countdown without any new confirmed cases reported, less than three months after the virus was detected in the capital, Kampala.
* Israeli researchers have discovered a key mechanism bacteria use to activate disease-causing genes, providing new insights into how infections begin and might be stopped, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) said Sunday in a statement.
