On Sunday, the United States announced that it desires a special forces military cooperation deal with Sri Lanka to get around bureaucracy.
On Sunday, the police of Hong Kong initiated a lock down of the city centre, as it prepared for another mass protest.
On Sunday, Japanese voters went to the polls to vote on changing the country's constitution. The government was expected to change the US-drafted pacifist document.
On Saturday, the UK authorities announced that the government sees the seizure of the British-flagged oil shop by Iran as a hostile act.
Amid a British-flagged oil tanker being held by Iran, on Sunday the Daily Telegraph reported that the British Cabinet of Ministers is planning sanctions against Iran.
The UK Sunday Times reported on Sunday that representatives of the Irish government have been secretly holding talks with Boris Johnson in an effort to avoid a no-deal Brexit.
On Sunday, the UK Sunday Times announced that the Justice Minister of the United Kingdom David Gauke is set to resign on Wednesday.
On Saturday, the National Security Adviser of the United States John Bolton began a tour of South Korea and Japan. Bolton was expected to mediate trade tensions between the two countries.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the newly elected Greek Prime Minister, stated on Saturday that Greece would submit its 2020 budget in the near time this year that would respect fiscal targets, which were agreed with the lenders.
Four Republican lawmakers of the US Congress, including the Committee of House Armed Services, called on the US President Donald Trump to take forward the Pentagon cloud contract, following complaints from various tech companies.
J.C. Penney picked advisers to consider various options on debt restructuring that would grant the money-losing US retailer more time to forge its turnaround, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Turkish Foreign Minister, held a telephone call with the US State Secretary Mike Pompeo to discuss Russia's S-400 missile system and the US F-35 fighter jet programme, the source of foreign ministry stated on Saturday.
The US President Donald Trump proposed to help easing tensions in the economic and political dispute between South Korea and Japan, as it threatens the smartphones and memory chips global supplies.
The Ryanair Irish pilot union's members are considering whether to join UK colleagues to conduct a strike action ballot in late August, according to a memo spread across the members.
The US Department of Transportation granted its final approval for a joint venture operation by Qantas Airways and American Airlines Group, after the initial effort had been rejected in 2016, according to the Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao.
On Saturday, Campari, the Italian drinks group, stated it entered exclusive talks to acquire the French liquor firm Rhumantilles, seeking to boost its rum business and expand its footprint in the French market.
Carlos Ghosn has filed a lawsuit against the Japanese carmakers Mitsubishi Motors and Nissan Motor in the Netherlands, who ousted Ghosn as their alliance chairman last year on embezzlement charges, according to Dutch newspaper NRC's report published on Saturday.
On Saturday, the French foreign ministry expressed its concerns over the British oil tanker seizure in the Gulf by Iran, adding that the situation affected de-escalation attempts in the region.
Jeremy Hunt, the British Foreign Minister, expressed his concerns that Tehran had followed a "dangerous path" after Iran seized the UK oil tanker in the Gulf on Friday.
On Saturday, CBS Corp announced that AT&T had removed CBS's TV stations from the customer channels of DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse TV, despite the negotiations are still going on between the two companies.
Tencent Holding, the Chinese online gaming company, is teaming up with the German carmaker BMW to open a computer centre based in China tp boost self-driving cars development in the world's largest auto market.
Equifax, the credit reporting company, is nearing to the deal to pay about $700M to settle the US data breach probes, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Barrick Gold Corp is set buy out fellow Acacia Mining's shareholders in a bid higher than it was originally proposed, gaining full control over the company and giving a hope for a tax dispute resolution between Acacia and the Tanzanian government.
Cummins, the US-based diesel engines maker, has made a proposal for MAN Energy Solutions, the Volkswagen-owned large engines unit, as the automaker seeks to trim its diverse assets portfolio.