Iran sets a funeral for Ali Khamenei as ministers quit in Bolivia

Iranian officials and state media announced a three-day funeral in Mashhad, Tehran, and Qom for former supreme leader Ali Khamenei. He had been killed in the opening phase of Israeli and United States strikes on his compound. The plan set the cities and the length of the mourning schedule.

In Bolivia, defense minister Marcelo Salinas and education minister Beatriz Garcia resigned amid the anti-government protests. They were described as the highest-ranking officials to leave president Rodrigo Paz's administration since the protests began. Their exit added a cabinet breach to a crisis already in its second month of street pressure.

The Philippine House voted 265 to 14, with eight abstentions, to expel Cavite representative Kiko Barzaga over disruptive and disorderly behavior after two earlier suspensions. He became the third representative in Philippine history to be expelled. The vote was a disciplinary act inside the chamber, not an election.

Thousands gathered in Tirana to protest a development planned by Jared Kushner on the Adriatic coast that would intrude on protected areas of the Vjosa-Narta region. The demonstration put an environmental objection in front of the Albanian government. It was a street protest, not a court ruling.

Pakistani interior minister Mohsin Naqvi visited Tehran again to talk with Abbas Araghchi about ending the war. Iranian state media said he handed Araghchi a written message from prime minister Shehbaz Sharif for supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei. Trump urged Iran to return to talks and finalize a deal, and said Benjamin Netanyahu would have to accept any deal Washington reached with Iran.

Trump also threatened that the United States would seize and destroy Iran's highly enriched uranium if talks failed to settle the stockpile. That threat sat beside the funeral announcement for Ali Khamenei. Domestic mourning and the nuclear argument were both on the week's political record.