* The Republic of Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday and agreed to enhance cooperation on defence and bio-health sectors, Yoon's office said.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima on Saturday.
* Armenia and Azerbaijan are close to agreeing an end to a blockade of transport links but more work is needed to seal a peace deal between the warring neighbours, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
* An additional 500 American citizens, including former US President Barack Obama, have been indefinitely barred from entering Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.
* Canada announced new sanctions against Russia on Friday. According to a news release on the prime minister's website, Canada is imposing new sanctions on 17 individuals and 18 entities linked to Russian companies that provide military technology and know-how to Russia's armed forces, family members of listed persons, and members of the Kremlin elite.
* The 32nd Arab League Summit concluded on Friday in the Saudi city of Jeddah by adopting the Jeddah Declaration, which calls for Arab unity to solve regional issues, Al Arabiya TV reported.
* Iran and Russia on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to expand tourism cooperation, according to Iran's official news agency IRNA.
* Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday called on Arab brothers to assist Lebanon in securing a safe return of Syrian refugees to their homeland.
* Migrant encounters at the US-Mexico border have dropped 70% since COVID-era border restrictions ended last week, US Homeland Security official Blas Nunez-Neto said on Friday.
* Germany's Ministry of the Interior published draft legislation on Friday aimed at modernizing the country's citizenship law. It proposes a multiple-nationality option and makes it easier for people to apply for citizenship.
* Foreign direct investment (FDI) that flowed into Myanmar went down over 37 percent year on year to more than 3.73 million USD in April, according to the Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) on Saturday.
* Thailand is seeing a surge in the number of flights from China, although the figures remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to Thai transport authorities.
* Brazil's economic activity registered a growth of 2.41 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the last three months of 2022, according to preliminary estimates released by the Central Bank of Brazil on Friday.
* The European Union (EU), Germany and Estonia on Friday launched a 4-billion-shilling (about 29 million USD) digital transformation center (DTC) to support Kenya's transition toward a human-centered digital economy.
* The Mozambican government estimates that natural disasters have cost the country 1.3 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) over the last 20 years, according to a report by the state news agency AIM.
* The United Nations has released 22 million USD to aid people fleeing the hostilities in Sudan into four neighboring countries, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
* The United Nations and humanitarian partners are appealing for nearly 400 million USD to prevent widespread hunger and malnutrition in Nigeria's northeast region, a UN spokesperson said on Friday.
* At least 573,000 children under the age of five are at risk of suffering from malnutrition in Malawi, a United Nations spokesperson said on Friday, citing warnings from the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
* An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 struck southeast of the Loyalty Islands in the French territory of New Caledonia on Saturday, the authorities said, with no danger of a tsunami.
* Sandstorms and blizzards have hit Mongolia's eastern provinces of Sukhbaatar and Khentii, causing severe damage to buildings and crippling several power lines, authorities said Saturday.
* Eight people were killed and at least 15 others wounded in clashes between tribal gunmen in Yemen's northeastern oil-rich province of Marib, a government official said on Friday.
