* Portugal will hold a snap parliamentary election to fill all 230 seats in the Republic Assembly. Voting will take place between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. (0700-1800 GMT) on Sunday, with preliminary results expected later the same evening. About 10.85 million voters are registered to participate.
* Poles will vote in the first round of their presidential election from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. (0500-1900 GMT) on Sunday. If no candidate secures an outright majority, a second-round runoff will be held on June 1.
* On Sunday, Romania will hold a decisive second-round presidential runoff between nationalist George Simion, 38, leader of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), and Nicusor Dan, 55, the pro-European mayor of Bucharest. Nearly 18 million Romanians are eligible to vote.
* Former Republic of Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol announced departure from his conservative People Power Party on Saturday ahead of the June 3 presidential election. Yoon noted that his departure from the party, he believed, would be the best way he can to win the snap presidential election and protect the country's liberal democracy.
* The president of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Bolivia, Oscar Hassenteufel, said Friday that former President Evo Morales will be able to register as a candidate for the general elections on Aug. 17 if he is with a legally constituted political party and presents the required documentation.
* The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Thursday visited a group of the Guards 1st Air Division of the Korean People's Army, and supervised the anti-air combat and air raid drills, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Saturday.
* The upcoming Belarus-Russia military drills Zapad 2025 have no plans to attack anyone, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday during his meeting with Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov in Minsk.
* German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has explicitly ruled out the possibility of restarting the operation of the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline.
* Ten European countries have agreed to strengthen the protection of critical underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea, the Baltic News Service (BNS) reported on Friday.
* Kazakhstan and the United Kingdom (UK) discussed key areas of bilateral cooperation, including engagement in security, defense, and peacekeeping, the press service of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Friday.
* Norway, along with Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovenia, and Spain, on Friday issued a joint statement expressing concern over the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and calling for an immediate change in Israel's policy, according to a press release by the Norwegian government.
* The 56th meeting of the Council of Heads of Security Agencies and Special Services of the Member States of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, the state-run Khovar news agency reported on Friday.
* Mexico will deploy "the best political and legal defense" against the U.S. initiative that proposes to impose an additional tax on remittance transfers, Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said Friday.
* Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid met with visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in Baghdad on Friday to discuss advancing regional peace and the upcoming 34th Arab League Summit.
* Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid on Friday reaffirmed Iraq's support for the Palestinian cause, and urged a unified Arab stance against Israel's ongoing attacks on Gaza.
* Iran and three European powers of France, Germany, and Britain, collectively known as the E3, held a high-level meeting in Istanbul on Friday to discuss the latest developments in the ongoing indirect negotiations between Tehran and Washington.
* Iran will under no circumstances abandon its "hard-earned" right to uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Friday on the social media platform X.
* The Israeli military said on Friday it had stepped up its operations in the Gaza Strip, launching a wave of airstrikes and deploying additional ground forces in an effort to establish operational control in parts of the enclave.
* The Israeli military carried out retaliatory airstrikes on Friday targeting Yemen's port city of Hodeidah and the Salif oil terminal on the Red Sea, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
* A massive protest against the Government of National Unity (GNU) erupted in Libya’s Tripoli on Friday amid the resignation of several senior government officials, local media reported.
* Fighting between rebel groups in Colombia has forced more than 66,000 people from their homes in the first five months of this year, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
* Global food insecurity and malnutrition continued to worsen in 2024, with 295 million people suffering from acute hunger across 53 countries, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and its partners said in a report released on Friday.
* More than 3.4 million Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland, Afghanistan, from neighboring Iran and Pakistan since 2023, local media TOLOnews reported Saturday.
* Moody's Ratings on Friday slashed U.S. long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to Aa1 from Aaa citing rising government debt and interest payment ratios. Meanwhile, Moody's Ratings changed the outlook of U.S. sovereign rating from negative to stable.
* Russia's gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 1.4 percent year on year in the first quarter of this year, according to preliminary data published by the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).
* Prices in Italy rose by 1.9 percent in April, according to the country's main statistics entity on Friday, slightly lower than preliminary data released more than two weeks ago and up 0.1 percent compared to March.
* The United States has reported 1,024 measles cases so far in 2025, marking a sharp increase from previous years, according to the latest data released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
* China's national observatory on Saturday morning renewed a yellow alert for thick fog in some parts of the country.
* At least 14 people were killed and several others injured due to lightning strikes in India's eastern state of Odisha on Friday, officials said Saturday.
