The two sides agree a deal is close and agree on almost nothing else, including whether it gets signed on Sunday and who controls the Strait of Hormuz.

Min Zin, a U.S. citizen who runs a Myanmar-focused think tank, was detained at Kunming airport on June 3. Beijing confirmed the espionage arrest on Friday.

The 30-year term for the drone operation stacks on top of an existing life sentence, deepening the legal reckoning over Yoon's six hours of martial law.

U.S. Central Command intercepted multiple Iranian attack drones targeting commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz early Friday, even as Pakistani and U.S. officials said the two countries were within days of finalizing a peace agreement to end the Middle East war.

Swiss voters decide on a far-right proposal to cap the population at 10 million — a measure with no precedent anywhere, and one that could force the country out of its EU free-movement deal.

After Hungary lifted its two-year veto, the 27 EU states agreed to open the first cluster of accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova in Luxembourg on 15 June.

Rationed to 20 liters a week and watching pumps run empty, Russian-occupied Crimea is living through its worst fuel crisis since 2014 as Ukrainian drones close the peninsula's supply routes one by one.

Somaliland's envoy used Friday's office opening in Taipei's Tianmu district to declare that pressure from China and Somalia has failed, months after Israel handed the breakaway republic its first state recognition.