On Friday, the US Presdient Donald Trump said that he will put more effort to speed up the process of obtainment of building permits for new infrastructure projects.
The United States revealed its plans to pay only $1.99B to the new UN peacekeeping budget thereby reducing its share by more than 10%.
The Japanese SoftBank corporation announced that it wants to buy Boston Dynamics and Schaft, the two leading robot manufacturing companies, to increase its R&D capabilities.
John Carney Jr., the Governor of Delaware, signed on Thursday a bill that guarantees legality of abortion within the state despite the President Donald Trump's anti-abortion views.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, expressed a hope that the result of UK's parliamentary elections would not create a need to postpone the Brexit talks.
Iran's oil exports to Europe and Turkey hit the record high in May since the canceliation of sanctions in the beggining of 2016.
On Friday, the British PM Theresa May stated that she was willing to set up a new government with support from its Northern Irish allies to lead the Brexit talks and provide political certainty.
The three United Nations' peacekeepers are reported to be dead in an attack on Friday outside their Kidal base in the Northern Mali.
On Friday, Germany urged for a diplomatic solution to the Qatar crisis and called the Arab countries to lift their ban on its neighbour Gulf state, avoiding any escalation into violence.
Digital Realty will buy a data centre operator DuPont Fabros in a $7.6B deal amid the intention to expand in the US high-demand markets.
The senior UN Human Resources chief urged for an international inquiry into the massacres that took place in the Democratic Republic of Congo as no less than 42 mass graves had been found in its Kasai region.
On Friday, Nokia announced about its decision to cut back 170 jobs in addition to 960 job positions the company cut last year in its domestic market.
The British goods trade deficit narrowed to £10.4B in April, whereas analysts expected the trade gap to remain unchanged at £12.0B.
The ONS reported on Thursday that UK manufacturing production rose 0.2% in April, following the prior month's fall of 0.6% but falling behind expectations for a 0.8% increase.
The Azerbaijan's Minister of Energy Natig Aliyev died at the age of 69 in the Turkish hospital on Friday, where he had his treatment for a heart complaint, according to the Azeri news outlets.
On Friday, Catalonia announced that it would hold a vote on its split from Spain on October 1 following the intention to become an independent country in the form of a Republic.
The number of the bodies retrieved after the Myanmar military plane crashed over the Andaman Sea rose to 31 on a third day from the accident.
On Friday, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt designated dozens of people who were allegedly linked to Qatar as terrorists, aggravating the strained tensions among the Gulf States and threatening the region's stability.
The British PM Theresa May's loss of the majority in the UK election have spooked the European Union leaders as they fear that it may delay the Brexit talks and increase the risk of failure in negotiations.
Qatar affirmed on Thursday it was not eager to surrender and compromise its sovereignty on foreign policy to find solution to the Gulf crisis.
On Friday, the Czech Republic PM Bohuslav Sobotka stated that Britain should urgently form its new government as the country had to start the Brexit talks as quickly as possible.
The South Korean military was inspecting a small abandoned aircraft that was found close to the North Korean border on Friday.
According to Citi, the British PM Theresa May is likely to leave her post amid her fiasco at winning majority in the June 8 election.
The President of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan passed legislation on deploying Turkey's military forces in Qatar with intention to provide support to the Gulf state, isolated from its neighbour Arab countries.