MOSCOW, July 12. /TASS/: The price of security guarantees from the Group of Seven (G7) is a Ukraine cleared of Ukrainians by Western weapons, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

Earlier, Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexey Reznikov expressed concern over the G7’s security guarantees, saying that "Kiev will not believe in them until it finds out what their price is."

JAKARTA, July 12 (Xinhua) -- Saudi Arabia signed on Wednesday ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC), making it the 51st country partner for the regional bloc.

The TAC was signed by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi during the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and Post Ministerial Conference (AMM-PMC) in Jakarta.

Indonesia hosts the regional-level event as the ASEAN Chair this year.

VILNIUS, Lithuania, 12 Jul (NNN-XINHUA) – Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), yesterday failed to set a timetable for Ukraine’s membership of the alliance, following the first day of the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

Speaking at a press conference, NATO Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg, said, allies have agreed on a package of three elements to “bring Ukraine closer to NATO.” However, he clarified that an invitation for Ukraine to join the alliance will be issued “when allies agree and conditions are met.”

NAIROBI, July 12 (Reuters) - Stone-throwing demonstrators clashed with police in Kenyan cities on Wednesday and two were shot dead, officers on the scene said, in a second round of protests in less than a week against a raft of tax hikes.

Police fired tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital Nairobi, the port city of Mombasa and several other towns, according to Reuters reporters and footage aired on Kenyan television stations.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Throughout the various crises in California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first term — devastating wildfires, the bankruptcy of the nation’s largest utility, the deadly COVID-19 pandemic — the state’s record-smashing budget surpluses were always there to smooth things over.

VILNIUS, July 12 (Reuters) - NATO leaders at this week's summit in Vilnius said Ukraine should be able to join the military alliance at some point in the future but dashed Kyiv's hopes for an immediate invitation.

The guarded statement on Ukraine's path into NATO irked President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. But after 16 months of war since Russia launched what it calls its special military operation, his country is still set to come away from the summit with some tangible rewards.

Below are some of the main commitments pledged to Ukraine in connection with the summit.

TOKYO, July 12 (Xinhua) -- A Tokyo court on Wednesday sentenced the former president of Japanese advertising company ADK to a suspended prison term over bribery charges associated with sponsorship of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Tokyo District Court sentenced Shinichi Ueno, 69, to two years in prison, suspended for four years, after he was accused of paying around 14 million yen (100,000 U.S. dollars) to former Tokyo Olympic organizing committee executive Haruyuki Takahashi for favors over sponsor selection.

VILNIUS, July 12. /TASS/: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced a number of proposals on the grain deal, which are being discussed now.

"The grain deal has been extended twice, with 33 mln tons of food delivered to global markets during the period of its validity. We have discussed the issue of extending the grain deal with [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky. He supports its extension. Putin has voiced some proposals on the issue. Those proposals are being discussed," Erdogan told reporters following a NATO summit.

JAKARTA, July 11 (NNN-Bernama) — Malaysia has expressed hope that the biennial resolution on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ) will successfully be adopted at the 78th United Nations General Assembly this year.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Zambry Abd Kadir said the SEANWFZ Treaty 2023-2027 which forms an extended security framework will place an architecture that complements and strengthens the Zone of Peace, Freedom, and Neutrality Declaration of 1971. 

UNITED NATIONS, July 11 (Reuters) - Germany found traces of subsea explosives in samples taken from a yacht that it suspects "may have been used to transport the explosives" to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, it told the U.N. Security Council in a letter with Sweden and Denmark.

A series of unexplained explosions hit the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines connecting Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea last September in the exclusive economic zones of Germany, Sweden and Denmark.

ISLAMABAD, July 12 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 family members were killed after a fire broke out in a three-story house in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Wednesday, police officials said.

The fire erupted during the early hours of Wednesday in the house in Punjab's provincial capital Lahore, trapping all the family members, police told local media.

Police said that the victims locked themselves in the back room, leaving them with no chance to escape after the fire engulfed the whole house.

VILNIUS, July 12. /TASS/: The countries of the Group of Seven (G7) will continue to exert economic and political pressure on Russia in connection with its special operation in Ukraine.

This is stated in the G7 declaration on the general principles of long-term security guarantees for Ukraine, adopted on Wednesday on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius.