On Friday, Catalonia's regional government is willing to call a referendum on its withdrawal from Spain despite Madrid saw such an act as completely illegal.
On Thursday, China urged all sides to exercise restraint after North Korea had launched its land-to-ship ballistic missiles off the country's Eastern coast.
UAE's Emirates Post Group suspended all the postal services to Qatar as the Gulf leader had broken diplomatic and travel links with its neighbour until further notice.
On Thursday, Pierre Moscovici, the EU's Economic and Financial affairs Commissioner, warned Greece's creditors about "playing with fire", referring to the country's debt relief program, as the Euro zone's Finance Minister are not expected to reach a deal during their upcoming meeting on Monday.
On Thursday, the EU is considering to relaunch the capital markets union project amid approaching Brexit, as UK's exit from the Union would limit access to the region's largest financial center - London.
The Court of Seoul jailed a former South Korea's Minister of Health Moon Hyung-pyo to 2.5 years on Thursday as he was linked to the Samsung corruption scandal.
Alibaba's CFO Maggie Wu stated on Thursday that the company anticipated a 45-49% revenue growth in the fiscal year of 2018 compared to 56% revenue growth data for the same period in 2017.
The UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan expressed his condolences to the victims of the Parliament and Mausoleum deadly attacks in Iran on Thursday, criticising "the horrific crime".
On Thursday's night an attacker threw an explosive device into the US embassy's compound in Ukraine's capital of Kiev, injuring no one.
On Thursday, seven more bodies were found 35 km from the coastal town of Launglon in the search of the Myanmar military aircraft that had gone missing the day before with 122 people on board.
Iran's Foreign Minister rejected the condolences expressed by Donald Trump over Tehran's deadly attacks, calling them "repugnant" as the US President said that countries supporting terrorism reaped their own rewards.
On Thursday, the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan announced that Turkey, Russia and Iran had postponed the scheduled negotiations on Syria in Astana until an inexact date.
The Philippines military is expected to break the Marawi City's siege in a short time as its troops have already entered three areas and forced out the Islamic State militants.
Official data showed on Thursday that Chinese exports and imports for May beat expectations, in spite of weakening commodity prices. Upbeat data also suggests the Chinese economic situation is holding at a better-than-expected pace, despite a slowdown in the property market.
On Thursday, North Korea fired several land-to-ship missiles off its Eastern coast, ignoring the new set of sanctions by the US, showing that it would continue to develop its missile and nuclear program.
On Thursday, debris and bodies of the military aircraft that went missing early on Wednesday were discovered off the Southern coast of Myanmar.
Samsung plans to invest $300M for building an appliances factory in the US to make products such as gas oven ranges and washing machines, the South Korean newspaper revealed.
The US government is considering the expansion of a ban on laptops at flights from additional 71 airports in Africa, Europe and the Middle East, the Homeland Security revealed.
The final estimate of Japan's GDP growth in the first quarter was reported at 0.3%, down from a preliminary reading of 0.5%, due to descending revision of business inventories.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the country's trade surplus narrowed to A$555M in May from the prior month's revised up surplus of A$3.17B.
Qatar is talking to Iran and Turkey about securing food and water supplies to stave off possible shortages right two days after its biggest suppliers cut trade and diplomatic ties.
Iran announced that they have arrested five people suspected to be connected to Wednesday's terrorist attack on the country's parliament in Tehran.
Russia and Venezuela are holding talks on the possibility of restructuring the Caracas' debt of $1B, ambassador of Venezuela to Russia Carlos Rafael Faria Tortosa told on Wednesday.
Donald Trump, as part of his call for an infrastructure bill, will travel to Cincinnati on Wednesday to push his plan to upgrade the US inland waterway system of locks and dams.