* The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday issued a general license temporarily lifting sanctions on Iranian oil at sea for 30 days to address the supply shortage amid shipping interruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he is considering "winding down" the U.S. military strikes against Iran, claiming the United States is "getting very close to" meeting its objectives.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Iran is seeking "not a ceasefire, but a complete, comprehensive and lasting end to the war," according to Kyodo News.
* Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that his country does not seek war with Muslim states, according to the official news agency IRNA.
* Britain has agreed to allow the United States to use British bases to carry out "operations to degrade the missile sites and capabilities being used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz," according to a Downing Street statement released on Friday.
* The United States and Israel carried out an attack on the Natanz uranium-enrichment facility in Iran on Saturday morning, according to Iran's local media.
* Iran fired two ballistic missiles at the U.S.-British Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.
* Russian air defense forces shot down 21 drones flying toward Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Friday. Emergency services are working at sites where debris from the intercepted drones fell, Sobyanin said on Telegram.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday defended his decision to maintain a veto on a large loan for Ukraine, linking it directly to the ongoing disruption of oil supplies via the Druzhba pipeline.
* Indonesia has signaled it might withdraw from the U.S.-proposed "Board of Peace" if the decisions of the board do not align with Indonesian or Palestinian interests, stated Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Thursday.
* Legislative and municipal elections in Guinea will be held on May 24 across the country, said a presidential decree published on Friday. The decree calls on voters in all relevant constituencies to cast their ballots in both elections.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for efforts to ensure the stable and safe supply of grain and other key agricultural products to underpin a sound start to the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030).
* Prices of premium quality petrol and industrial diesel rose in India by nearly 2.30 Indian rupees (nearly 2 U.S. cents) per liter and 22 Indian rupees (23 U.S. cents) per liter, respectively, on Friday, confirmed the oil marketing companies.
* The Cambodian government has reduced import duties and value-added tax (VAT) for gasoline and diesel to zero in an attempt to stabilize retail oil prices in the kingdom amid the escalation of the Middle East conflict, the Ministry of Commerce announced on Friday.
* Finland will receive 17 million euros (about 20 million USD) from the European Union (EU) to strengthen surveillance of its eastern border and the Gulf of Finland, the Finnish government said on Friday.
* Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Friday announced a series of urgent measures to bolster the country against the economic effects of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and protect consumers from rising prices.
* The Swiss Federal Council said on Friday that Switzerland has halted the export of war materiel to the United States during the ongoing conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran.
* The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Friday its air defense systems intercepted four ballistic missiles and 26 drones launched from Iran, while its security department dismantled a network related to Hezbollah and Iran.
* Poland has withdrawn its troops from Iraq amid a deteriorating security situation in the Middle East, Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Friday.
* The NATO mission in Iraq has commenced the temporary withdrawal of its personnel from the country due to security concerns, a high-ranking security source told the Iraqi News Agency (INA) on Friday.
* At least 20 people were killed and 57 others injured in Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon over the past 24 hours, according to official figures released on Friday.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Israel's closure of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem during the Eid al-Fitr holiday has raised concern across the world.
* Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have ordered the culling of over 20,000 birds amid an outbreak of avian influenza (commonly called bird flu), local media reports said Friday.
* Indonesia's National Nutrition Agency (BGN) has mandated waste management in the free nutritious meals program through a new regulation on Friday to ensure the initiative not only meets nutritional needs but also safeguards public health and environmental sustainability.
* A large-scale fire broke out Friday at an automotive parts manufacturing factory in Daejeon in the Republic of Korea, leaving 55 people injured and 14 others missing, local fire authorities confirmed.
