* Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday appointed former Justice Minister Eduardo Arana as the country's new prime minister, following the resignation of Gustavo Adrianzen.
* The Russian delegation will address political and technical issues at upcoming talks with Ukraine in Istanbul, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Wednesday.
* Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha on Wednesday in Turkey's city of Antalya before the upcoming Russia-Ukraine peace talks scheduled in Istanbul.
* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has departed for Indonesia on his first international visit since winning re-election.
* U.S. President Donald Trump held a meeting on Wednesday with Syrian interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to discuss normalizing bilateral ties, while expressing his willingness to reach a deal with Iran.
* The United States on Wednesday announced deals totaling more than 243.5 billion USD with Qatar, calling the series of agreements with the Gulf Arab country will generate an economic exchange worth at least 1.2 trillion dollars.
* The United States on Tuesday announced an arms deal worth nearly 142 billion USD with Saudi Arabia, calling it "the largest defense sales agreement in history."
* Russian authorities have detained six people suspected of planning armed attacks on educational institutions in the cities of Moscow and Tyumen, local media reported on Thursday.
* French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced on Wednesday that France is set to expel additional Algerian diplomats in a reciprocal move.
* Uzbekistan is stepping up its efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), notably by formalizing its international commitments within the framework of the global trade body by the end of this year, said the president's press service on Wednesday.
* The Indonesian military (TNI) said on Thursday that its patrol had shot and killed 18 suspected armed separatists in the country's Intan Jaya regency of Central Papua province.
* German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, reaffirming Germany's steadfast commitment to UN peacekeeping operations.
* Malta on Wednesday assumed the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe for the fourth time during a ceremony in Luxembourg.
* A total of 50 Afghan nationals released from Pakistan jails recently returned to their homeland on Wednesday, reported the state-run Radio and Television of Afghanistan (RTA) on Thursday.
* At least 10 militants were killed in a gunfight with paramilitary troopers in the northeastern state of Manipur, the Indian army said Thursday.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a warning on Wednesday evening, urging the immediate evacuation of the Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City, ahead of an Israeli strike.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi announced on Wednesday that a new round of talks with Germany, France, and Britain will take place on Friday in Istanbul, according to the official news agency IRNA.
* China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Sun Lei, on Wednesday called on all parties to ease tensions in the Red Sea, resume political dialogue in Yemen, and scale up humanitarian assistance to address the country's worsening crisis.
* Libya's Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) declared a ceasefire on Wednesday following intense overnight clashes between rival militias that spread into central and residential districts of the capital, prompting international calls to protect civilians and prevent further escalation.
* At least 65 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on six residential buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp and the nearby town of Jabalia in northern Gaza early on Wednesday, Palestinian civil defense and medical officials said.
* The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday said the escalating violence in and around the Libyan capital Tripoli over the past two days threatens to impact nearly half a million children.
* The 7th Central Asian Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2025), themed "Achieving the Global Climate Finance Goal through Regional and National Actions in Central Asia," was held in Ashgabat on May 13-14, according to the International Information Center of Turkmenistan on Wednesday.
* The 19th high-level parliamentary meeting of the Parliamentary Union of the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (PUIC) kicked off on Wednesday at Indonesia's parliamentary building in Central Jakarta.
* The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announced on Wednesday to maintain its previous forecasts for global oil demand growth in 2025 and 2026.
* The European Union announced 8 million euros (about 9 million USD) on Wednesday to support stability and security in Lebanon, after months of conflict with Israel devastated the country's infrastructure and caused significant loss of life.
* The State Treasury of Latvia issued five-year eurobonds on Wednesday to raise 1 billion euros (1.12 billion USD) on international financial markets. According to the organization, the bonds were issued with a yield of 2.971 percent and a fixed coupon rate of 2.875 percent.
* Ethiopia has earned 1.868 billion USD from coffee export over the past 10 months, the highest-ever revenue in the same period, the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority (ECTA) disclosed Wednesday.
* At least 21 people have been killed Wednesday in a major highway accident in Mexico's central-eastern state of Puebla, local authorities said.
* Nearly 2,000 buildings in areas affected by the recent devastating earthquake in Myanmar require major renovation, state-owned daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Thursday.
* NASA and the Saudi Space Agency have signed an agreement for a Saudi Arabia CubeSat to be launched aboard NASA's upcoming Artemis II test flight, the U.S. space agency said Tuesday.
