* Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday announced four new cabinet appointments, following a wave of resignations linked to a corruption scandal involving the misuse of European Union (EU) agricultural subsidies.
* The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Saturday raised the alarm over a surge in the number of Afghans returning from Iran under harsh conditions, cautioning that large-scale returns could exacerbate Afghanistan's already fragile situation.
* Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia officially submitted their withdrawal notices from the Ottawa Convention to the United Nations Secretary-General on Friday.
* The U.S. Senate on Saturday narrowly advanced President Donald Trump's major tax-cut and spending bill, marking a key procedural step toward passing the legislation before the upcoming July 4 recess.
* The Israeli military said on Saturday its forces had killed a senior Hamas commander in an airstrike in Gaza City, identifying him as a key figure in the group's military buildup and in the planning of the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.
* Iran on Saturday reopened its airspace in central and western areas to passing international flights, the Roads and Urban Development Ministry announced.
* Yemen's internationally recognized government said on Saturday it had dismantled a major terrorist cell and arrested the primary suspects in the 2023 assassination of a World Food Programme (WFP) official.
* The Sri Lankan government has launched the "Dream Destination" project to renovate 100 railway stations around the country, the President's Media Division (PMD) said in a statement on Saturday.
* More than 1 million Afghan refugees have returned to their motherland since the beginning of this year, local media outlet Tolonews reported Saturday.
* Bangladesh on Saturday recorded two new COVID-19 deaths during the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 22 so far this month. The country on June 5 recorded its first COVID-19 fatality this year when a man died from the infectious disease in the capital Dhaka.
* Fourteen terrorists were killed in a security operation in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province following a suicide bombing on a military convoy, the Pakistani army said on Saturday.
* The 2025 Mekong Tourism Forum concluded successfully, with Laos officially handing over a symbolic flag to Myanmar, the designated host for the 2026 forum.
* A data transmission failure at the Area Control Center in Milan on Saturday evening led to the suspension of over 300 flights in multiple cities across northwest Italy, ANSA news agency reported.
* Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered three ancient rock-cut tombs in the Qubbet el-Hawa necropolis near Aswan, dating back to the Old Kingdom period (2686-2181 BC), the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Saturday.
* At least 38 people were killed and 63 others injured in separate rain-related accidents across Pakistan since the onset of monsoon season in the country on June 26, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.
* China's national observatory issued a yellow alert on Sunday, warning of downpours in some regions of the country.
