Though the Ukraine peace summit on Sunday (16 June) outlined a roadmap to peace, many key Global South countries - including Saudi Arabia, Mexico, India, Brazil, South Africa, and Indonesia - did not sign the final declaration.

In this week's edition: Ukraine peace push in Switzerland, G7 aftermath and accession talks progress.

Three British opinion polls released late on Saturday (15 June) presented a grim picture for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party, and one pollster warned that the party faced "electoral extinction" in 4 July's election.

Former French Socialist president François Hollande on Saturday (15 June) said he is to stand again for parliament in legislative elections, the latest political twist after his successor Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly called snap polls.

Kazakhstan’s legislative reforms targeting domestic violence are at a pivotal moment, with new laws taking effect on 16 June which aim to protect women and children. Kazakhstan is seeking to establish zero tolerance for domestic violence.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday (15 June) refused to disclose whom she would be backing in the EU's top job discussions next week.

Russian officials privately admit their chances of preventing an Armenian exit from the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) are slim, former Moscow officials and diplomat admit

Swedish EU diplomat Johan Floderus and another Swede, Saeed Azizi, both held prisoner in Iran, have been released and are on a flight home to Sweden, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced on Saturday (15 June).

Italian anti-fascist activist Ilaria Salis was released from house arrest in Budapest after she was elected a member of the European Parliament (MEP) at the weekend, her lawyer Gyorgy Magyar told Reuters on Friday (14 June).

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his cabinet on Friday (14 June) to boost the government's battle with a cost-of-living crisis, but kept his foreign and finance ministers in place to show policy continuity.

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court are investigating alleged Russian cyberattacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes, four sources familiar with the case said.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus.