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An American naval crew has begun destroying Syrian chemical weapons on board a U.S. container ship in the Mediterranean.

A cargo plane carrying over 186 metric tons of emergency supplies for children in conflict-affected Central African Republic (CAR) arrived this week in Bangui. The airlift and supplies, provided by USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), include 24,080 buckets, 24,000 wool blankets, 12,000 kitchen sets, 1,090 rolls of plastic sheeting and 28 crates of water bladder kits which will be distributed to highly vulnerable populations. The flight is the first of a two-part airlift to benefit 60,000 vulnerable people. The second airlift is scheduled to arrive in two weeks.

Palestinians walk home amid the devastation inside Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, where restrictions on aid deliveries continue to severly impact the lives of the people. June 2014.

The militant group Hamas says seven of its fighters have been killed by a series of Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi said he wishes three Al-Jazeera journalists convicted last month of supporting the banned Muslim Brotherhood had been deported instead of facing trial.

Bogdan Klich (Poland, EPP/CD), who is preparing a report to evaluate the Moroccan Parliament’s “Partnership for democracy” with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will make a fact-finding visit to Morocco from 6 to 10 July.

Matteo Renzi presented the Italian presidency's priorities to MEPs.

The military campaign of the Ukrainian army in the east of the country continued. There were clashes in parts of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Media reported several human casualties. The UN stated that there were numerous reports of death of people due to the intensified security operations in Donetsk and Luhansk, including about a killing of a five-year-old girl.

Hundreds of refugees from Syria cross the border into Jordan, receiving food and water before being transported to processing centres.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he is ready to resume a cease-fire in his military campaign against pro-Russian separatists if certain conditions are met.