An Afghan official said on Saturday at least two US soldiers had been killed and two more wounded in a gunfire opened by a local commando in eastern Afghanistan.
On Saturday, Iraqi military forces repelled a deadly Islamic State attack launched on the town of Shirqat earlier in the day.
Referring to hunger crises in Africa, Gerd Mueller, the German Development Minister, called on the UN to set up a permanent €10B crisis fund.
A German newspaper reported on Saturday the CEO of Opel Karl-Thomas Neumann was set to resign after the sale of Opel to the French PSA Group.
On Saturday, Iranian authorities detained seven people on suspicion of helping Islamic militants to carry out attacks in Tehran earlier this week.
On Saturday, the former Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi said he expected the country to hold elections at the end of legislature in spring of 2018.
Following the appointment of a new Finns Party leader, the Prime Minister of Finland Juha Sipila said there was a risk that the country's tree-party government could break down.
According to the Iranian news agency IRNA, Aseman Airlines and Boeing representatives have signed a contract to acquire 30 Boeing 737 MAX planes.
On Saturday, Jussi Halla-aho, an anti-immigration European Parliament member, was elected as the chair of Finland's populist and nationalist-oriented Finns Party.
In an interview with Reuters, Cressida Dick, London police chief, claimed the city would not be frightened by militants who have recently carried out attacks on the UK.
The number of casualties from the al Shabaab attack on military camp in Puntland region reached 59 after terrorists opened fire and seized the base on Thursday.
Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, the British Prime Minister Theresa May's two chiefs of staff, have resigned amid the Conservative Party's unsatisfactory result in the UK election.
Following a meeting with his Kazakh and Saudi colleagues, the Minister of Energy of Russia Alexander Novak said on Saturday that Kazakhstan is ready to produce 1.7M barrels per day under the oil output deal.
Niger ambassador to Qatar was recalled back home on Saturday, thus showing government's solidarity with the Arab states.
On Saturday, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on Gulf states to resolve a conflict at the negotiations table, adding that Russia is ready to help all parties involved to find a compromise.
On Saturday, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain expressed their satisfaction with the US President Donald Trump's call for Qatar to stop supporting extremism and terrorism.
The British police reported on Saturday that the three Islamic State militants who delivered the London Bridge attack had tried to hire a 7.5 tonne van.
At least three Afghan policemen were killed in an airstrike launched by the United States, military officials reported on Saturday.
Brazilia's court dismissed a case that threatened to unseat Michel Temer for alleged illegal campaign funding in the 2014 election, when he was the running mate of impeached President Dilma Rousseff.
The Turkish President has promised to continue supporting Qatar after Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed ties with emirate, accusing Doha of funding terrorist organizations.
The US special forces are helping the Philippines military and police units to root out militants allied to IS holed up in the southern town of Marawi, a US embassy spokesperson reported.
13 Philippine marines were killed in fierce fighting with Muslim militants who had laid siege to southern Marawi city for nearly a month in the biggest single-day loss for government forces.
Catalonia would hold a referendum on independence in the autumn 2017, the President of the region Carles Puigdemont announced on Friday.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a closer cooperation between China and India at a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.