* French police arrested more than 1,300 people during a fourth night of rioting ahead of the funeral of teenager Nahel M, whose shooting by police sparked the unrest that on Saturday prompted President Emmanuel Macron to postpone a trip to Germany.
* Dutch King Willem-Alexander on Saturday apologised for the Netherlands' historic involvement in slavery and the effects that it still has today.
* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation on Saturday, discussing the latest developments in the two countries and ways to boost bilateral ties, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
* India and Pakistan Saturday exchanged a list of civilian prisoners in each other's jails, officials said. The exchange was carried out through diplomatic channels simultaneously at New Delhi and Islamabad, India's foreign ministry officials said.
* The foreign ministers of Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom on Friday expressed concern about recent events in the West Bank and Israel’s approval of new settlement units there.
* United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited Haiti on Saturday to shine a spotlight on the crises faced by the impoverished Caribbean country as it struggles to combat violent gangs that have largely overrun the capital Port-au-Prince.
* The destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant and its dam has caused direct damage of at least 2 billion USD to the Ukrainian economy, according to a study published Friday by the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) and government agencies.
* Palestine on Saturday warned of the growing violence of the Israeli settlers in the West Bank, including increasing attacks on the Palestinians and their properties.
* The 23rd ordinary summit of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) kicked off on Saturday in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, with 11 member states discussing issues of regional security and integration.
* Russia's stability is essential for world peace, security, Mali's Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop said on Twitter on Friday.
* The Central Bank of Argentina has announced it will allow financial institutions to use the Chinese yuan, or renminbi, as a currency for collecting deposits by individuals and legal entities.
* The United Nations Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution to end the mandate of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) as of June 30.
* The Philippine economy "returns to its high-growth" trajectory, supported by a strong labor market performance and cooling inflation, National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Secretary Arsenio Balisacan said on Saturday.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Friday that his government's stand-by agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for 3 billion USD will help in bringing economic stability and growth to the country.
* Myanmar's cross-border imports and exports surged 11.87 percent year on year to over 2.01 billion USD in the first nearly 3 months of the 2023-24 fiscal year, official data showed on Saturday.
* Sri Lanka's parliament approved a domestic debt restructuring plan on Saturday that is crucial to continue a $2.9 billion bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
* At least 48 people were killed in a road accident in Londiani, western Kenya, on Friday evening when a lorry carrying a shipping container veered off the road and ploughed into several vehicles, police and witnesses said.
* A bus crashed and burst into flames killing at least 25 people in India's western state of Maharashtra in the early hours of Saturday, police and officials said.
* A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Friday evening, injuring at least 10 people, while one person died of suspected heart attack during the quake, the country's disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) said.
