* Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely to return to normal immediately despite a U.S.-Iran agreement to reopen the key waterway, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing the head of tanker operator Mitsui OSK Lines.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon under the deal with the Middle East country.
* The United States could soon reimpose sanctions on Russia's oil shipment, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France, where efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine are high on the agenda.
* U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the G7 summit in France on Tuesday, saying that "Russia should make a deal" to end the war in Ukraine.
* There are currently no official communication channels between Moscow and Kiev, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that it is "very important" that the next U.S. mediated talks with Russia should take place before this winter.
* Equatorial Guinea's Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said Tuesday that Prime Minister Manuel Osa Nsue Nsua and the entire cabinet have resigned.
* Energy cooperation is at the top of Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's agenda as he arrives in Russia for a two-day working visit in conjunction with the ASEAN-Russia Commemorative Summit on Wednesday.
* Malaysia and Timor-Leste are exploring opportunities to expand cooperation in various strategic areas, including the economy, trade and investment, to drive sustainable growth in both countries, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday.
* Israel launched airstrikes and artillery attacks on the Nabatieh area in south Lebanon on Wednesday, Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
* Iran warned Tuesday that if Israel does not end its "malice" in southern Lebanon, it will have to wait for the Iranian armed forces' "harsh" response.
* Türkiye's Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that NATO will deploy an Italian SAMP-T missile defense system in the central province of Konya to enhance the country's airspace security.
* France will allocate an additional 655 million euros (754 million USD) to the development of artificial intelligence under its France 2030 investment program, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday.
* Lithuania plans to make issues of defense, internal and social security, the bloc's enlargement, and transatlantic bond high on the European Union's (EU) agenda after taking over the EU rotating presidency next year, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said in his annual address to parliament on Tuesday.
* Following news of a U.S.-Iran deal, displaced people began returning to their homes in southern Lebanon despite challenges, UN humanitarians said Tuesday.
* Pakistan will facilitate the repatriation of 30 Iranian nationals through the southern port city of Karachi in coordination with the Iranian, U.S., and British authorities, Ishaq Dar, the country's Foreign Minister, said on Wednesday.
* The Australian government on Wednesday lowered travel warnings for several Middle Eastern countries, including Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), after the United States and Iran reached a peace deal.
* Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Tuesday declared a new 60-day state of emergency in 10 provinces and three municipalities, citing serious internal unrest caused by rising criminal violence, according to an executive decree.
* UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Tuesday urged relevant parties of the Yemeni conflict to seize the opportunity created by regional de-escalation following the Iran-U.S. deal and revive the stalled political process.
* Overseas investors held about 600 billion USD worth of Chinese equities at the end of the first quarter of 2026, Zhu Hexin, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, said on Wednesday.
* Japan ran a trade deficit of 378.6 billion yen (about 2.36 billion USD) in May, its first red ink in four months, government data showed Wednesday, as the weak yen inflated the value of imports even as volumes fell.
* Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) surged 38.4 percent year-on-year in May, accelerating from a 24.4 percent increase in April, driven largely by strong demand for electronics linked to artificial intelligence (AI), official data showed on Wednesday.
* Myanmar aims to export over 1.3 million tonnes of corn in the 2026-2027 fiscal year, according to the Myanmar Corn Industrial Association (MCIA) on Tuesday.
* The Bank of Latvia has cut the Baltic country's economic growth forecast (GDP) for this year to 2 percent from a previous estimate of 2.8 percent, the bank's representative Uldis Rutkaste said at a news conference on Tuesday.
* Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved measures to obtain 300 million USD from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for post-cyclone recovery and trade, investment and industrial development, the Department of Government Information said in a statement on Tuesday.
* Afghanistan's Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation has signed a 1.63 million USD cooperation agreement with a leading domestic aid organization to provide humanitarian assistance to recent returnees, the ministry announced Tuesday.
* Iranian crude oil tankers have exited a U.S. blockade zone in the Gulf, reported TankerTrackers on Wednesday. The TankerTrackers website, a maritime intelligence company that tracks the crude oil trade, marked Iran's "first crude oil exports in two months," citing digital tracking data corroborated by satellite imagery.
* Thailand is developing high-resolution climate data and risk-mapping tools to prepare for the El Nino weather pattern that global agencies expect to persist through early 2027, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said on Tuesday.
* Zimbabwe on Tuesday pledged 1 million USD to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to help fight the ongoing Ebola disease outbreak.
* The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has risen to 837, including 196 deaths, as health authorities and international partners warned that the outbreak continues to deteriorate with sustained community transmission and geographic expansion.
* At least 68 people were killed and 33 are missing 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 Tuesday.
* An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8 jolted Sulawesi, Indonesia, at 03:27:45 GMT on Tuesday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.
