* Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Sunday pledged to unswervingly advance opening up and cooperation amid rising global instability and uncertainty when he made the remarks in a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the China Development Forum 2025 in Beijing.
* Philippine Senator Imee Marcos said on Saturday that she is still studying whether to conduct another Senate committee hearing on the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte.
* Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was officially arrested Sunday on corruption charges, the Turkish state-run Anadolu news agency reported. Imamoglu faced accusations of "bribery, corruption, qualified fraud, illegally obtaining personal data for profit and tampering with a tender," according to the agency.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Sunday met with U.S. Senator Steve Daines and some American business people, who are here to attend the China Development Forum 2025 in Beijing.
* Several European countries have updated their travel advisories for the United States this week following the detention of multiple European nationals, including German citizens, upon arrival.
* Venezuela announced Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the U.S. government to resume repatriation flights for its citizens, with the next flight scheduled for Sunday.
* The World Bank on Saturday approved a 67.34-million-USD support package to help boost the Philippines' civil service level.
* The Australian government has announced an extension of energy rebates, offering households and small businesses an additional 150 Australian dollars (around 94 USD) in electricity bill relief from July 1.
* The Brunei Meteorological Department continues to strengthen the ability of the early weather warning system to provide accurate and fast information on weather to the public, the Ministry of Transport and Infocommunications said in a statement on Saturday to mark the World Meteorological Day.
* China's e-commerce sector demonstrated sound growth momentum in the first two months of 2025, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday. Official data showed that China's online retail sales of physical goods rose 5 percent year on year during the Jan.-Feb. period, outpacing the 4 percent growth of retail sales of consumer goods.
* The trade volume of Afghanistan reached nearly 13 billion USD in the year of 1403 (in the Persian calender, which ended on March 20, 2025) and the major portion of the transaction is composed of imported goods, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said on Sunday.
* At least six people in a remote area in the eastern province of Papua Highlands reportedly died on Friday in an ambush by armed insurgents, the Indonesian military told local media on Sunday.
* A shooting at a park in the U.S. state of New Mexico on Friday night left at least three people dead and 14 others injured. Local authorities confirmed the victims included two 19-year-old men and a 16-year-old boy.
* The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has topped 50,000, Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Sunday.
* Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Saturday exchanged views with his Saudi Arabian and Egyptian counterparts on Israel's renewed attacks on Gaza.
* The U.S. naval forces carried out three strikes on the Hodeidah airport in the Yemeni Red Sea port city, and five strikes on the Majzar district in Yemen's central province of Marib on Saturday night, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed on Saturday the latest regional developments with his Lebanese and Iranian counterparts during two separate phone calls, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
* France on Saturday expressed deep concern over the renewed tensions in southern Lebanon, condemned the rocket fire into Israel from Lebanese territory, and called on Israel to exercise restraint following its retaliatory strikes.
* Salah al-Bardawil, a senior Hamas leader and member of its political bureau, was killed Sunday along with his wife in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his tent inside a camp for displaced persons west of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
