After years in exile and after years of calling for Islam, the last few weeks have seen Ennahdah do a complete U-turn on Islam. Tunisia was the birth place of the Arab Spring which ushered in an era of unprecedented change in the Middle East.

Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved on June 15 the first reading of a law banning the wearing in public of clothing that completely or partly covers the face – a law tabled by the nationalist minority coalition Patriotic Front to outlaw the wearing of the burqa.

The Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz on Sunday, 12th June 2016, said Pakistan's credentials for the membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) are stronger than India's, if the 48-nation cartel agrees to form a uniform criteria for non-NPT states. He further said, "Our strategy was to apply after India did

On the 15th of June 2016 the independent newspaper published that the Jewish entity water company Mekorot cut off water supplies to the West Bank and Gaza during the month of Ramadan where temperatures have reached 35 degrees centigrade.