The United States and Britain removed sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a day after the United Nations Security Council did the same ahead of his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump next week, with the European Union confirming it would follow suit.

The U.S. government said President Donald Trump’s hush money criminal conviction in New York should be thrown out, because it was based on improper evidence and a legal theory preempted by federal law.

Azerbaijan does not plan to send peacekeepers to Gaza unless there is a complete halt to fighting there between Israel and Hamas, an Azerbaijani government source told Reuters.

A majority of judges on a panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court voted on Friday to reject former President Jair Bolsonaro’s appeal challenging his 27-year prison sentence for plotting a coup to remain in power after the 2022 presidential election.

Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad handed over the body of a deceased hostage on Friday as part of the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appointed a new commander responsible for drone air defences, seen as a critical element in defending against the threat of Russian drones.

President Donald Trump said that no U.S. government official would attend the G20 summit in South Africa later this month.

The Polish lower house of parliament voted to strip a former justice minister of immunity, which opens the way for him to be arrested and charged with numerous crimes, including abuse of power and heading an organised criminal group.

At least five people died in Vietnam after Typhoon Kalmaegi pummelled coastal regions with destructive winds and heavy rain, officials said on Friday, following the storm’s deadly passage through the Philippines where it killed at least 188 people.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Kazakhstan will join the Abraham Accords to have normalized relations between Israel and Muslim-majority nations.

A 69-year-old British woman who was on death row in Indonesia on drug offences departed the country early after Jakarta and London reached a deal to repatriate her and another prisoner on humanitarian grounds.

Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the powerful speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said that she will not run for reelection to Congress in 2026, ending the four-decade career of a progressive Democratic icon often vilified by the right.