Turkish warplanes killed 13 suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants on Saturday in the southeast province of Diyarbakir, military sources said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb on Saturday near Syria's holiest Shi'ite Muslim shrine, and a monitoring group said at least 20 people were killed.

The first session of Myanmar's House of Representative, or the Lower House, under the new government concluded in Nay Pyi Taw on June 10 after four months of sitting. 

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff said she would call a referendum on holding early elections if she is reinstated as president, an offer analysts saw as a bid to sway undecided senators to help clear her in an impeachment trial.

US and Iraqi officials said on June 10 they could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq

Forces aligned with Libya's unity government said on June 10 they had taken control of the port of Sirte, making further gains in Islamic State's North African stronghold.

Two senior military officers and five civilians were injured following a motorcycle bomb blast on a highway in Pattani province’s Nong Chik district in southern Thailand on June 9. 

US National Security Advisor Susan Rice on June 9 met with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at the White House, Washington DC, to discuss the two countries’ close partnership in addressing regional and global challenges.

Leader of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as “Red Shirt”, Jatuporn Prompan was sentenced to two years in prison by the Appeals Court on June 10 for slandering former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Thailand celebrated the 70th anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyaded's accession to the throne (June 9, 1946).