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Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif says a final text of a US-Iran peace deal has been agreed, with Islamabad finalising next steps, as US Vice President JD Vance warns against false claims over the terms.

The United States and Iran have reportedly agreed the text of a memorandum of understanding that would extend their ceasefire, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and open the way to further talks on Tehran’s nuclear programme.

Tehran Friday prayer leader Khatami says the US understands only the language of force, dismisses talks and ceasefires, and warns of a decisive Iranian response to any aggression.

Iranian food group Solico will build a 155,000-tonne cheese plant in Kazakhstan's Almaty region under a KZT35.2bn deal, deepening Astana-Tehran ties, with the plant due to be commissioned in 2029.

Azerbaijan is overhauling its agriculture sector with reforms targeting higher-value output, expanded irrigation and improved land use.

Tech

President Karol Nawrocki vetoed a government bill aimed at regulating the crypto assets market, blocking legislation that would have appointed the Polish Financial Supervision Authority as the market’s main watchdog.

Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard announced Mexico is aiming to increase its semiconductor production capabilities 25-fold in the next three years.

Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has revealed plans to build a "state-run VPN," which is supposed to help the country's IT sector, cut off from foreign services and repositories.

IOWN, or Innovative Optical and Wireless Network, is designed to enable large-volume data communications with low latency and lower power consumption.

Deal helps Lithuania bolster military communications infrastructure as defence requirements continue to evolve.

Opinion

Relations between Yerevan and Moscow remain strained, following a pattern seen in Moldova, where Russian trade restrictions and political pressure ultimately helped push exports toward the EU.

CHP Party legitimises entire spectacle by participating vigorously in compromised races.

Ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary election, Russia is carrying out a full-scale pressure campaign against Nikol Pashinyan’s government.

Europe is in a historic decline that threatens its economic model, political autonomy and global influence, and lacks the intellectual framework needed to reverse the trend, according to the head of France's elite Sciences Po university.

The world has changed in a very fundamental way. For most of the last century the world has been run on the lines of Great Power Geopolitics: them and us; the enlightened and the barbaric; the rich and the poor.

Data

Central bank was not moved to tighten by either developments in the Middle East conflict or the domestic political stress.

Two thirds of Russians are no longer paying close attention to the war in Ukraine, according to the latest survey from the independent Levada Center, up from a third in March.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare call for the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) to cut interest rates on June 11 for the first time since the Central Bank’s benchmark rate moved into double digits two years ago.

For most of human history, more people were born each year than died. Populations grew very slowly for most of this history, then rapidly in recent centuries, as child mortality plummeted and people lived longer.

Inflation accelerated earlier this year with the rise partly driven by fuel prices.

Features

According to various intelligence sources, Kim Ju-ae is understood to be the daughter of Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol-ju, although North Korea has never formally confirmed her full biographical details.

China and the EU have crossed the threshold beyond which population decline is mathematically irreversible. Once the median age of women passes 40, a country no longer has enough potential mothers to keep the population stable.

Deeper integration with the EU Single Market is essential if North Macedonia is to move beyond its traditional role as a low-cost manufacturing hub.

For much of the 26 years since the beginning of the millennium, India has aimed at becoming a rising economic power by way of first becoming a service centered hub and gradually shifting towards becoming a centre of manufacturing.

Russian retail investors poured RUB138bn ($1.7bn) into mutual funds in May, with bond funds accounting for more than four-fifths of net inflows as punters expect more Central Bank of Russia (CBR) rate cuts boosting the demand for bonds.

Blogs

The E3 European leaders met in London over the weekend to thrash out a new formula to take to the Kremlin and end the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, the document they produced takes us all the way back to the very beginning of the process.

What began as an environmental campaign against the planned development linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has rapidly evolved into a broader protest movement.

He’s passionate but ultimately dull. While he’s directing matters, the regime can happily go about dismantling the opposition.

German businessmen are going to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), Russia’s premier investment forum, in a public show of the fraying commitment to cutting off commercial ties under the sanctions regime.

Kyrgyzstan wants more infrastructure maintenance funds. Afghanistan is preparing to divert river flows for irrigation. Disagreements could mount.

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Country has opportunity to move “zero waste” agenda item from rhetoric to actual implementation ahead of COP31 co-hosting, says Greenpeace.

Under the lease, Acwa Power Philippines will develop an integrated solar and battery storage facility with an eventual capacity of up to 500MW.

Singapore has been looking long and hard into energy sources the island can still explore.

Confirmation of move comes after lawmaker revealed not a single shovel had hit the ground at the project site.

Poland’s updated National Energy and Climate Plan assumes a sharp increase in power capacity, renewables and nuclear generation by 2040, the government said.

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