More than 6 million people worldwide have been infected with the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University. Data compiled by the US university put the number of cases at more than 6,057,000 late on Saturday. Almost 370,000 people worldwide have died in connection to COVID-19, the lung disease caused by the virus, the data showed.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India.

Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said any negotiations with the United States would be "futile" as he delivered his first major speech to the conservative-dominated chamber on Sunday. Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards' air force, was elected speaker on Thursday after February elections that swung the balance in the legislature towards ultra-conservatives.

The United States said it is considering deploying a Security Force Assistance Brigade in Tunisia for training, as part of its assistance program with the North Africa country, amid concern over Russian activity in Libya.

France, Germany and Britain on Saturday criticised a US decision to end sanctions waivers allowing work on Iranian nuclear sites designed to prevent weapons development.

The IMF approved a two-year $24 billion credit line for Chile on Friday as the South American nation battles the growing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The announcement came a day after Peru secured a two-year, $11 billion credit line, and as Latin America becomes a growing hotspot for COVID-19.

Switzerland’s southern neighbour Italy is going to open its borders for tourists from the EU and Schengen zone countries on 3 June and from that date a 14-day mandatory quarantine period would be scrapped. But even though people from Switzerland will be allowed to go to Italy, Italians won’t be able to enter Switzerland, news wires reported.

Demonstrators marched, stopped traffic and in some cases lashed out violently at police as protests erupted on Friday in dozens of US cities, news wires reported. The angry reactions were provoked by the killing of George Floyd after a white officer pressed a knee into his neck while taking him into custody in Minnesota. In Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and beyond, thousands of protesters carried signs that said: “He said I can’t breathe. Justice for George.”

The US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he would withdraw funding from the World Health Organization, end Hong Kong’s special trade status and suspend visas of Chinese graduate students suspected of conducting research on behalf of their government, news wires reported.

Ukraine expects the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to approve a $5 billion loan package at a board meeting on 5 June and the first tranche of $1.9 billion to be disbursed the following day, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal told Reuters on Friday.