* Algeria's legislative elections will be held on July 2, the National Independent Election Authority announced Monday as it published the regulatory framework for candidate lists.
* The United Nations is alarmed by the U.S. rhetoric that threatens attacks on Iran's power plants and bridges, a UN spokesperson said Monday.
* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday announced he will travel to Singapore within days for fuel supply talks.
* Moscow has issued a warning to the Baltic states following reports of their intention to open their airspace to Ukrainian drones attacking Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told RIA Novosti on Monday.
* Russia's air defense systems destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones over three regions in six hours on Monday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said. The ministry said that Russia's on-duty air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 14 Ukrainian drones from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Moscow time on Monday.
* Belarus has been consistently driving the agenda of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and intends to keep that role, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Monday.
* The ceasefire proposal from Pakistan was "one of many ideas" being considered by U.S. President Donald Trump, and he "has not signed off on it," CBS News reported on Monday, citing a White House official.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that his administration has reviewed a proposal for a 45-day ceasefire in the war with Iran, describing it as a "very significant step."
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. military had used as many as 155 warplanes to rescue the second airman in Iran and was forced to destroy some cargo planes that got stuck to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands.
* The Israeli military said Tuesday that people in Iran should avoid taking trains until at least 9 p.m. local time (1730 GMT) on Tuesday or going near railway lines.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Monday that it has so far rendered more than 85 percent of Iran's petrochemical export capacity inoperable after striking Iran's two biggest petrochemical complexes.
* Iran has rejected a U.S.-proposed 15-point peace plan, calling instead for a permanent end to the conflict, the official news agency IRNA reported Monday. Tehran delivered its response via Pakistan in a 10-point document, citing past experiences as the reason it would not accept a ceasefire.
* A Turkish-owned merchant vessel, the Ocean Thunder, successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday night, Türkiye's Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said Monday.
* The situation in the Middle East is rapidly deteriorating and threatens to spin completely out of control, but chances for a political-diplomatic resolution of the conflict remain, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
* The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it was suspending evacuations from Gaza after a person contracted to provide services to the organization in Gaza was killed during a security incident earlier on Monday.
* Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty emphasized on Monday the necessity of "continued dialogue" to contain military escalation in the region, as U.S. President Donald Trump doubled down on his threat against Iran.
* Amid supply disruptions in the wake of the situation in the Middle East, India has floated a global tender seeking to import 2.5 million metric tons of urea, officials said Monday. The state-run Indian Potash Limited has already issued a tender in this regard, with bids due by April 15.
* Pakistan's positive and productive endeavors to stop the Middle East conflict are approaching a critical and sensitive stage, Iranian Ambassador to Pakistan Reza Amiri Moghadam said on Tuesday in a social media post.
* Myanmar exported over 463,000 tons of fishery products in the 2025-26 fiscal year (from April 2025 to March 2026), generating over 689 million USD in export earnings, according to the Department of Fisheries on Tuesday.
* The Philippines' total agricultural trade in February 2026 reached 2.33 billion USD, marking a 3.8 percent increase from the same month a year earlier, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Monday.
* Portugal will invest up to 19.3 million euros (22.4 million USD) in two strategic supercomputing and artificial intelligence (AI) projects over the coming years, according to a cabinet resolution published Monday in the official gazette.
* The driver of a high-speed train was killed and 27 others injured after the train collided with a truck in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais on Tuesday morning, local media reported.
* At least 110 people have been confirmed dead, 160 injured, and seven others have gone missing after torrential rainfall triggered flash floods across Afghanistan over the past 11 days, the Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA) reported on Monday.
