Russian forces launched 611 drones and 70 missiles at Ukraine on Saturday night, setting the historic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery ablaze and killing at least four people in the capital.
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A Russian drone struck Kharkiv’s Art Museum on Saturday, setting a 1,200 square metre blaze and killing five emergency workers in the city as volunteers rushed to save artworks.
The US-Iran peace framework leaves Iran’s 440kg of 60-percent enriched uranium in Tehran untouched, with the stockpile’s fate left to a 60-day negotiation starting after the June 19 Geneva signing.
Mediators resumed phase two talks on the Gaza ceasefire in Cairo this week, with Egypt, Qatar and Turkey pushing to advance negotiations stalled by mutual accusations of violations.
President Trump held separate phone calls with Zelensky and Putin before travelling to the G7 summit in Évian, where Ukraine war negotiations form a key part of the agenda.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has stayed out of public view since taking office in March, as Iran prepares for the June 19 peace deal signing in Geneva.
G7 leaders opened their three-day summit in Évian-les-Bains on Monday, with the US-Iran peace deal, Trump’s tariff deadlines and Ukraine war at the top of the agenda.
The United States and Iran will formally sign their peace agreement in Geneva on June 19, with Vice President JD Vance set to attend as the Strait of Hormuz reopens.
Pakistan confirmed that the text of the Iran-US peace memorandum has been agreed, cementing Islamabad’s role as the pivotal mediator in a conflict that has reshaped the Middle East.
Switzerland held a referendum on June 14 on a proposal to cap its population at 10 million by 2050, a vote that could reshape the country’s relationship with the European Union.
Mojtaba Khamenei, who became Iran’s supreme leader just three months ago after his father was killed in US airstrikes, now faces the defining decision of signing a peace deal with Washington.
India is cautiously supporting the Iran-US peace process while maintaining a formal diplomatic complaint over the deaths of Indian sailors killed in US airstrikes on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz.
Britain and France have contacted more than 35 nations to form a naval coalition ready to demine the Strait of Hormuz the moment a US-Iran ceasefire takes effect.
Russia launched 118 attack drones at Ukraine overnight, killing eight people at a market in Dnipropetrovsk and wounding 62 others in attacks across several regions.
King Charles III led his third Trooping the Colour birthday parade in London on June 13, joined by the full royal family including Prince William and the Wales children.
President Trump marked his 80th birthday on June 14 by hosting UFC Freedom 250 on the White House South Lawn, a first in presidential history.
The No Kings movement brought protests to more than 2,100 locations across the United States on Sunday, coinciding with President Trump’s 80th birthday.
G7 leaders begin gathering in Evian, France for a three-day summit dominated by the Iran peace deal, Ukraine war, and simmering trade tensions with the US.
Iran announced the state funeral for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin July 4 in Tehran and conclude with burial in Mashhad on July 9, four months after he was killed.
The US and Iran are close to signing the Islamabad Declaration in Geneva, a framework deal brokered by Pakistan that would end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The draft Islamabad Declaration leaves Iran’s 440 kilograms of enriched uranium untouched at signing, deferring all nuclear questions to sixty days of follow-on talks.
Chinese authorities detained Min Zin, director of a Myanmar-focused think tank, on espionage charges while he was travelling through China, raising alarm among regional policy analysts.
Nigeria and the United States signed a bilateral security framework this week expanding US training, intelligence sharing, and equipment support for Nigerian forces fighting armed groups in the northwest and northeast.
Niger’s junta-led government adopted a new penal code criminalising same-sex relationships with up to three years’ imprisonment, making it the latest Sahel state to introduce such legislation since the wave of military takeovers in the region.