* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a peace deal with Iran is scheduled to be signed on Sunday and that the Strait of Hormuz will reopen immediately afterward.
* Russia's Defense Ministry said on Saturday that Russian troops targeted energy and transport infrastructure serving the Ukrainian military, and shot down 540 Ukrainian drones in the past 24 hours.
* Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) will meet in the French town of Evian from June 15 to 17, as they seek to address mounting geopolitical crises and global economic imbalances amid growing differences within the group.
* More than 1,000 public and private sector stakeholders will gather in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, this month for a global summit aimed at unlocking sustainable financing for Africa's agri-food systems.
* Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed developments in Gaza and the West Bank on Saturday over phone.
* The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Saturday that it had received a report of a tanker struck by an unknown projectile approximately six nautical miles east of Oman.
* The funeral for Iran's late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is scheduled to begin in the capital Tehran on July 4, Iran's state media reported on Saturday. The burial is set to be held in the northeastern city of Mashhad on July 9.
* Three people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA).
* Myanmar plans to plant 21.36 million tree saplings across more than 30,000 forest plantation sites nationwide during the current rainy season, The Mirror reported on Sunday.
* Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsiya has introduced restrictions on aircraft refueling for foreign airlines at several airports across the country after overseas carriers increasingly purchased excess fuel to reduce operating costs, local media reported Saturday.
* Turkish customs seized over one ton of illicit drugs on Friday during a major anti-smuggling operation at the country's northwestern border, Türkiye's Trade Ministry said.
* The World Bank has raised its forecast for Uzbekistan's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2026 to 6.4 percent, according to the bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report. The new projection is 0.4 percentage points higher than the bank's January estimate for 2026.
* Myanmar aims to achieve growth momentum in foreign trade, targeting over 29 billion USD in the 2026-2027 fiscal year, The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Sunday.
* At least 61 people were killed, 40 missing and 1,403 injured after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mindanao, the Philippines, on June 8, said the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) on Sunday.
* At least four people are missing and nine others have been rescued after a boat capsized in a river in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, local authorities reported late Saturday.
* The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 710, including 149 deaths, the country's health ministry said Saturday, while dismissing social media rumors that a nationwide lockdown had been imposed in response to the outbreak.
