* Kamil Idris was sworn in as Sudan's new prime minister on Saturday before Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the country's ruling Transitional Sovereign Council, the council said in a statement.
* Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Saturday urged citizens to participate in Sunday's judicial election, the first time the public will directly select members of the federal judiciary.
* The Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Defense Services of Myanmar on Saturday announced the extension of the temporary ceasefire until June 30, state-owned daily The Mirror reported on Sunday.
* Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Saturday that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is dedicated to promoting open and fair trade, while recognizing the potential risks associated with global fragmentation.
* China on Sunday began implementing a trial policy that unilaterally grants visa-free entry to citizens of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay. It is the first time that China has extended such access to nations in Latin America and the Caribbean.
* The Indian military on Saturday confirmed for the first time that it lost fighter jets during the clash with Pakistan earlier this month. The confirmation was made by India's Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) Anil Chauhan in an interview with foreign media in Singapore, Indian media reported.
* The Russian Investigative Committee on Sunday classified the bridge collapses in its border regions of Bryansk and Kursk as terrorist attacks.
* A bridge collapsed early Sunday in the Zheleznogorsk district of the Kursk Oblast, derailing a freight train and causing a subsequent fire, the region's Acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.
* The European Commission (EC) on Saturday sharply criticized the United States' decision to raise tariffs on steel imports from 25 percent to 50 percent, warning that the move could prompt swift European retaliation.
* Australia's Minister for Trade and Tourism Don Farrell on Saturday described U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to double tariffs on steel and aluminum as "unjustified" and an act of economic "self harm."
* The White House said on Saturday that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon announce a new nominee for the head of NASA, following his decision to withdraw former candidate Jared Isaacman, a close ally of Elon Musk.
* French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has condemned the acts of vandalism against five Jewish establishments in Paris, according to French news channel France 24.
* Slovakia has achieved its lowest-ever carbon footprint in energy production, thanks to the country's strong reliance on nuclear power, local media reported on Saturday.
* Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced on Saturday joint financial support for Syria's public sector employees, as part of their ongoing commitment to advancing Syria's economic recovery, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
* Syrian foreign affairs chief Asaad Hassan al-Shibani and visiting Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Saturday highlighted growing bilateral cooperation and shared commitment to Syria's reconstruction after the lifting of international sanctions against Damascus.
* Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud announced on Sunday that a consultative forum bringing together political and civil society leaders will be held in the capital, Mogadishu, on June 15 to help forge unity, strengthen peace and advance reforms in the country.
* A total of 500,000 Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan and Iran in April and May, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
* Iran's atomic chief said on Saturday indirect nuclear negotiations between his country and the United States have witnessed some progress, according to the official news agency IRNA.
* Iran on Saturday dismissed a report by the UN nuclear watchdog as "politically motivated and lacking balance," saying it failed to "accurately reflect the scale of Tehran's cooperation" with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
* Palestinian officials on Saturday strongly condemned Israel's decision to block a planned visit by foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic countries to the West Bank, calling the move a dangerous escalation and interference in Palestinian political affairs.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said on Saturday that Israel has accepted an updated U.S.-mediated proposal for a hostage release deal, while accusing Hamas of stalling progress by rejecting the framework.
* At least 31 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli gunfire near a humanitarian aid center in southern Gaza, according to Palestinian sources.
* Israel's military on Saturday confirmed the killing of Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas commander and head of the group's military wing in Gaza, in an airstrike earlier this month.
* A Hezbollah member was killed and a civilian injured on Sunday in two separate Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese sources.
* China's consumer goods trade-in program has generated 1.1 trillion yuan (about 153.1 billion USD) in sales in the first five months this year, the Ministry of Commerce said on Sunday.
* Egypt's startup sector attracted 228 million USD in funding from January to May, marking a 130-percent increase compared to the same period last year, the Egyptian government said on Sunday.
* At least 21 people were killed and three others injured when a bus carrying a group of athletes returning from the recently concluded Nigeria's National Sports Festival crashed on a busy expressway in the northern part of the country, the traffic police said.
* Heavy rainfall over the past two days triggered landslides and widespread flooding in India's northeast and south, killing at least 18 people and affecting thousands of others, officials said Saturday. Torrential rains hit the northeastern states of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram and Tripura.
* The death toll of landslides at a quarry on Friday in Indonesia's West Java province increased to 19 on Sunday, but further landslides forced a suspension of the search for 6 missing victims, officials said.
* Rain-triggered floods and geological disasters have struck Gongshan County in southwest China's Yunnan Province, affecting 4,857 people as of 9 p.m. Saturday, local authorities have said.
* More than 10,000 people across 14 districts in Sri Lanka have been impacted by severe weather as of Sunday morning, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.
