Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi vowed on June 29 there will be “no immunity for any corrupt person,” saying his government will pursue those who steal public funds.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, a key Russian ally, in Beijing on June 29, state media said.
Tehran and Washington on June 29 offered conflicting messages concerning the revival of technical discussions this week, as the region anxiously awaits a back-on-track ceasefire following a brief escalation.
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the country was suffering from "a certain shortage" of fuel in an interview published by the Kremlin on June 28, after repeated Ukrainian strikes in their four-year war.
Tehran said on June 28 it carried out a third day of retaliatory strikes against U.S. attacks on Iranian territory, as both accused the other of violating their fragile ceasefire, straining negotiations meant to end the Middle East war.
The defense ministers of South Korea and Japan reaffirmed on Sunday their countries’ commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, despite Pyongyang’s repeated pledges to expand its nuclear arsenal.
French health officials said on Sunday there had been around 1,000 more deaths than expected during a record-breaking heat wave that has baked much of western Europe for days.
A "massive" Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded another in southern Russia and caused a fire in a refinery, the regional governor said on Sunday.
Rescue crews raced Saturday to find survivors in the rubble of Venezuela's powerful earthquakes as the death toll reached 1,430 and hopes dwindled more than three days after the earth roared and rumbled.
The death toll from twin earthquakes in Venezuela rose on June 26 to 920, with tens of thousands reported missing as international rescue teams boosted a desperate and slow-moving search for survivors.
The United States and Iran traded military strikes after Washington on June 27 accused Tehran of attacking a cargo ship, jeopardizing a fragile ceasefire as diplomats struggle to contain the Middle East war.
Lebanon, Israel and the United States on June 26 signed a trilateral framework agreement aimed at paving the way for a peace deal between the two long-time Middle East adversaries.
Lebanon, Israel and the United States on Friday signed a trilateral framework agreement aimed at paving the way for a peace deal between the two long-time Middle East adversaries.
Ukraine and Russia swapped 160 captured soldiers on Friday, Moscow and Kiev said, the latest prisoner of war exchange in the four-year war.
The Israeli foreign minister is set to submit a draft proposal to the cabinet recognizing the 1915 events between the Ottoman Empire and Armenians as genocide, a move that could further strain already tense relations with Türkiye.
Iran maintained its insistence on controlling the Strait of Hormuz on June 26, a day after an attack on a ship in the strategic waterway led the U.N. to suspend efforts to evacuate trapped mariners.
