* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir met an Iranian delegation led by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on the sidelines of U.S.-Iran technical level talks being held in Burgenstock, Switzerland, on Sunday, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.
* Germany's Left Party on Saturday elected Ines Schwerdtner and Luigi Pantisano as its new co-leaders during a federal party congress in Potsdam. Schwerdtner, who has been the party's co-chair since October 2024, was overwhelmingly confirmed in her position with 85.7 percent of the votes, according to the party's latest election results.
* Polls opened across Colombia on Sunday for the second round of the country's presidential election, with voters choosing a president and a vice president for the 2026-2030 term.
* The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) on Sunday declared the ruling Prosperity Party (PP) the winner of the country's seventh general election, clearing the way for it to form a new government.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Sunday met with his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis at the Buergenstock mountain resort in central Switzerland before the scheduled talks with the United States.
* Switzerland on Saturday said that it continues to provide a "discreet and reliable setting" to facilitate talks at the central Swiss resort of Burgenstock on the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi met on Sunday with the foreign ministers of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Türkiye in Cairo to discuss regional developments and the implementation of the U.S.-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU), the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.
* U.S. Central Command said on Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz remained open, with increasing commercial ship traffic through the waterway.
* Russian Armed Forces have struck a military airfield, oil refining facilities, as well as fuel, energy, and transport infrastructure in Ukraine over the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
* Ukraine conducted multiple drone attacks on Russia overnight on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring dozens, said regional officials and the Russian Defence Ministry.
* Iran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the war in Lebanon is not ended, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday, citing a source close to the Iranian negotiating team.
* Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday that the Israeli army will not withdraw from the "security zone" it holds in southern Lebanon, despite a recent ceasefire announcement.
* Israeli drones dropped sound bombs in the city of Nabatieh and an Israeli tank opened fire toward the outskirts of the village of Hadatha in southern Lebanon on Sunday, marking the first reported violation of a ceasefire announced a day earlier, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
* Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said on Sunday that the parties to the Iran-U.S. talks in Switzerland had established technical groups to negotiate the terms of a final peace deal between Tehran and Washington, which is due within 60 days of negotiations.
* Türkiye marked its first-ever export of a warship to a member of both NATO and the EU on Saturday, delivering the vessel named CAm. Roman to Romania through a sales agreement.
* African leaders and their global partners in the advocacy for reparative justice have concluded their three-day conference in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, with clear pathways toward energizing global advocacy for reparative justice.
* Afghanistan's Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund met Kazakhstan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Economy Serik Zhumangarin in Kabul on Saturday, as the two nations moved to strengthen economic and political relations.
* Chinese authorities on Sunday called for enhanced precautions against mountain torrents, geological disasters, flooding of medium and small rivers, and urban waterlogging, as heavy downpours are expected to hit multiple regions over the next three days.
* Bangladesh reported 220 new dengue cases and two new deaths on Sunday, taking the tally to 4,900 and the death toll to nine so far this year. According to data released on Sunday by the Directorate General of Health Services, 1,703 dengue cases were recorded so far in June, after 714 in May.
