* U.S. House Republican leaders on Thursday canceled a scheduled vote on a resolution to limit President Donald Trump's war powers in Iran.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday his predecessors have mulled intervening in Cuba for decades and now it looks like he will be the one that does it.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that six people died as a result of a Ukrainian drone strike targeting educational buildings and a student dormitory in the Luhansk region.
* U.S. President Donald Trump has ruled out using military force to take control of Greenland, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Ken Howery said on Thursday during the opening of a new U.S. consulate building in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
* German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Friday that the federal government will spend 4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on defense this year.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday his administration will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland.
* Leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Norway and the Netherlands on Friday warned Israel against further settlement expansion in the West Bank, saying such moves undermine stability and prospects for a two-state solution.
* U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday the likelihood of a negotiated agreement with Cuba is not high at the moment.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that U.S. control of Iran's enriched uranium stockpile would be part of any potential peace deal with Iran to guarantee that Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States does not want to impose tolls on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, reversing remarks he made last month suggesting Washington would collect such tolls.
* Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir has departed for a visit to Iran, security sources said on Friday. According to the sources, Munir will hold discussions on the ongoing Iran-U.S. negotiations, regional peace and other issues of mutual interest during the visit.
* Nine Indonesian nationals detained after the Israeli military intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla 2.0 humanitarian aid vessel bound for Gaza are now on their way home, Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono said on Thursday.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday highlighted the impact of regional crises on global energy security, calling for stable supply and diversified energy routes.
* A potential peace agreement between Iran and the United States would include nine clauses, Al Arabiya reported Friday, citing informed sources.
* The Navy of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said Friday that 35 more vessels, including oil tankers, containerships and commercial vessels, have crossed the Strait of Hormuz within the past 24 hours in coordination with and under the protection of its forces.
* Israel said on Thursday it had deported all activists from a Gaza-bound aid flotilla after a video showing activists kneeling with their hands bound sparked international outrage. The aid vessels, carrying 428 people, were intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters on Monday morning.
* Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has issued a directive stressing that the country's stockpile of enriched uranium must not be transferred abroad, Reuters cited two senior Iranian sources as saying on Thursday.
* Pakistani security forces killed 23 terrorists in a series of intelligence-based operations conducted in different areas of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military has said.
* Indonesia's State Logistics Agency (Bulog) plans to expand its rice storage capacity to seven million tons as government rice reserves continue to rise, prompting the agency to lease additional warehouse space nationwide, Bulog President Director Ahmad Rizal Ramdhani said on Friday.
* Trade volume between China and Russia has surged 19.7 percent year on year to reach 85.2 billion USD during the January-April period, marking a good start to this year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.
* India and Cyprus on Friday signed several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) in the fields of counter-terrorism, research and innovation, education, and culture, in New Delhi. The MoUs were signed in the presence of visiting Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
* Indonesia will extend its work-from-home (WFH) policy for civil servants, employees of state-owned enterprises and private sector workers by two months amid ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, a senior minister said on Friday.
* Malaysia is working to ensure its energy supply can be extended until December as disruptions to the global supply persist, Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof said on Friday.
* Kazakhstan exported 11.7 million tons of grain and flour since the start of the current agricultural year in September, up 13.6 percent, the agriculture ministry said on Friday.
* Myanmar exported more than 3 million tons of beans and pulses, maize and sesame seeds in the 2025-2026 fiscal year, earning over 1.8 billion USD, according to the Myanmar Pulses, Beans, Maize and Sesame Seeds Merchants Association on Friday.
* Cambodia attracted a total of 1.01 million international tourists in the first quarter (Q1) of 2026, down 44.8 percent over the same period last year, said a report of the Ministry of Tourism on Friday.
* At least 24 people were killed on Thursday in Honduras in two armed attacks in the northern departments of Colon and Cortes.
* Norway will contribute 50 million Norwegian kroner (5.39 million USD) to the World Health Organization's Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE) following a new Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with confirmed imported cases in Uganda, the Norwegian government said Friday.
* The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is spreading rapidly, prompting the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday to revise its risk assessment to "very high" at the national level, while remaining "high" at the regional level and "low" globally.
* UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher announced on Friday that he is allocating up to 60 million USD from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund to accelerate the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the wider region.
*The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday the latest developments regarding the hantavirus outbreak on board a cruise ship, with the number of reported cases rising to 12.
