Investigators have downloaded data from one of the black box flight recorders on EgyptAir Flight MS804 and are preparing to analyze it, bringing them closer discovering what caused the jet to crash, Egypt's investigation committee said on June 29.

US-led coalition aircraft waged a series of deadly strikes against Islamic State around the city of Falluja on June 29, US officials told Reuters, with one citing a preliminary estimate of at least 250 suspected fighters killed and at least 40 vehicles destroyed.

Seventeen Colombian soldiers died when their Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter crashed in a central mountainous area of the Andean country, the army said on June 27.

European leaders told Britain on June 28 to act quickly to resolve the political and economic confusion unleashed by its vote to leave the European Union last week, after the IMF said the uncertainty could put pressure on global economic growth.

Three suicide bombers opened fire before blowing themselves up in the main international airport in Istanbul on June 28, killing 31 people and wounding close to 150, officials said.

Italy and The Netherlands proposed on June 28 splitting a two-year term on the United Nations Security Council after the UN General Assembly was deadlocked on which to choose following five rounds of voting for the final 2017/18 seat.

Britain could have a new prime minister by early September, the ruling Conservative Party said on June 27, after David Cameron started laying the groundwork for his successor to trigger the country's exit from the European Union.

Eight suicide bombers attacked a Lebanese Christian village on June 27, killing five people and wounding dozens more, in the latest violent spillover of the five-year-old Syrian war into Lebanon.

Three coordinated Islamic State bomb attacks on Yemeni government forces killed 38 people in the southern port city of Mukalla on June 27, medics and security sources said.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on June 27 he believed Ankara would normalize relations with Moscow "rapidly" after expressing regret over the downing of a Russian warplane last year.