* Iran's semi-official Mehr News Agency reported Friday details of a draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Iran and the United States.
* At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, President of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing will pay a state visit to China from June 15 to 19, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Friday.
* Colombia's Foreign Ministry said Thursday that a group of European lawmakers had formally rejected what they called U.S. government interference in the country's presidential election.
* Latvia's parliament, the Saeima, on Thursday passed a new immigration law in its final reading, introducing significantly stricter immigration controls and revising the rules governing the entry and residence of third-country nationals.
* The active phase of Türkiye's largest naval exercise concluded on Thursday with the Distinguished Observer Day in the Gulf of Antalya off Türkiye's southern coast, the National Defense Ministry said.
* The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has lost its external power supply and suffered a complete blackout following an attack on a substation, the plant's press service announced Thursday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres voiced concern over the latest escalation in the Middle East, his spokesman said on Thursday.
* The future administration of the Strait of Hormuz will be resolved as a regional matter through dialogue and joint-decision making between Iran and Oman, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported Friday.
* With regard to the Iran situation, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson on Thursday said relevant parties should immediately stop military actions and resume dialogue and negotiations.
* Egypt and Qatar on Thursday urged the United States and Iran to continue negotiations to ease tensions and end the conflict, following renewed military clashes between the two sides.
* The African Union (AU) on Thursday warned that renewed escalations in the Middle East threaten international peace and security, with "significant implications" for Africa.
* Singapore has launched a Standards and Conformance 2035 roadmap to help businesses remain competitive amid geopolitical tensions, evolving trade rules and rapid technological change, Enterprise Singapore said Friday.
* Indonesia is expanding crude oil supplies from African nations to lessen the impact of tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, Vice Foreign Minister Arif Havas Oegroseno said Thursday.
* Senior security officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran have held a face-to-face meeting for the first time since the United States and Israel launched massive attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, U.S. media reported Thursday, citing anonymous sources.
* India's shipping ministry Thursday said 13 Indian-flagged vessels are currently stranded in the Strait of Hormuz. The details were revealed by a senior shipping ministry official, Mukesh Mangal, during a press briefing in New Delhi.
* Three Indian seafarers who had been reported missing after a U.S. attack on a commercial vessel off the coast of Oman have been confirmed dead, India's federal Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said Thursday.
* Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Thursday that peace with Israel hinges on meeting key Lebanese demands, including an Israeli withdrawal.
* At least 23 civilians were killed and 19 others wounded in drone attacks targeting the city of El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State in western Sudan, local sources said Thursday.
* The number of West Bank settler attacks causing casualties or property damage so far this year has surpassed 1,000, UN humanitarians said Thursday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the settler attacks have affected more than 230 communities across all parts of the West Bank.
* At least 408 Afghan nationals imprisoned in Iran have been transferred to Afghanistan, where they will serve the remainder of their sentences, Afghan prison authorities said on Thursday.
* The security area of Hamburg Airport in Germany was evacuated on Friday due to a "police operation," with all passengers ordered to leave the area after security checks, German Federal Police said.
* The World Bank on Thursday lowered its global growth forecast to 2.5 percent for 2026, down from 2.9 percent in 2025, marking the lowest rate since late 2019. The bank's semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report cited higher energy prices, steeper inflation and increased borrowing costs amid the Middle East conflict for the growth cut.
* Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment projects worth 3.26 billion USD in the first five months of 2026, said a press release from the Council for the Development of Cambodia on Thursday.
* Indonesia's investment management agency Danantara has raised 1.5 billion USD in its debut U.S. dollar bond sale, drawing strong demand from international investors, local media reported on Friday.
* The Bangladeshi government has unveiled a record 9.38 trillion taka (nearly 77 billion USD) in the proposed national budget, targeting economic growth of 6.5 percent for the next 2026-27 fiscal year starting in July.
* Indonesia said on Thursday it will restructure its Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program, following reports of massive budget inefficiencies leaking up to 1 trillion Indonesian rupiah (54 million USD) per month.
* Cambodia has become the first country in Asia and the Pacific to achieve the global 95-95-95 HIV targets, said a joint press release on Friday. This historic milestone "marks a major step in Cambodia's progress towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030," said the joint press release issued by the Cambodian government and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
* Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake instructed state agencies to prepare detailed plans to protect food security, drinking water supplies and electricity generation from the possible impact of El Nino conditions, the President's Media Division (PMD) said on Thursday.
* The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 676, including 136 deaths, as health authorities warned of continued community transmission and the risk of a sudden geographic expansion of the outbreak.
* Seven new measles cases were confirmed in Mongolia over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases nationwide to 15,389, the National Center for Communicable Diseases (NCCD) reported on Thursday.
* At least 55 people were killed, 38 missing and 1,120 injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mindanao, the Philippines, on Monday, said the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Friday.
* Indonesia has dispersed 11 tons of salt in the airspace of Aceh province, located on the northern tip of Sumatra island, to induce artificial rain and prevent forest and land fires before the dry season reaches its peak, officials said Thursday.
* Three active volcanoes in eastern Indonesia erupted on Friday morning, sending ash columns up to 500 meters into the air, the Geological Agency of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said. The eruptions occurred within a short period at Mount Dukono in North Halmahera, Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki in East Flores, and Mount Ibu in West Halmahera, according to the agency.
* China's National Meteorological Center on Friday issued a blue alert for rainstorms, as heavy rain or rainstorms are expected to hit parts of southwest China, east China and south China from Friday to Saturday.
