* Dilan Yesilgoz, leader of the Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), said on Monday that her party will not enter into a new coalition government with Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) ahead of the upcoming elections.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang has stressed the need to break through bottlenecks in the transformation of sci-tech achievements, and promote innovation-driven development.
* Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru called for boosting the country's nominal gross domestic product (GDP) to 1,000 trillion yen (about 7 trillion USD) in 2040 from around 600 trillion yen in 2024.
* The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3) opened on Monday in Nice, a coastal city in southern France, under the theme of "Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean".
* Countries must respect science and international law when it comes to seabed exploitation, which must not become a lawless "Wild West", United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday at the opening of the third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC3) in Nice, southeastern France.
* Chinese President Xi Jinping said during a telephone conversation with Republic of Korean (RoK) President Lee Jae-myung on Tuesday that China and the RoK should lift their strategic cooperative partnership to a higher level, so as to deliver more benefits to the two peoples and bring greater certainty to the turbulent regional and international landscapes.
* The first meeting of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism opened here in London on Monday. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, attended the meeting with U.S. representatives.
* The Kremlin said Monday the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) revealed itself as an instrument of aggression and confrontation.
* Republic of Korea was expected to sign an export deal of K2 tanks worth about 6 billion USD with Poland in late June, Yonhap news agency said Tuesday, citing multiple government sources. The deal, which would be the country's biggest single arms export contract, will be inked in Poland late this month.
* Direct international train service between Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and Moscow will resume on June 17, Russian Railways announced Tuesday via its official Telegram channel.
* Russia's air defense systems intercepted and destroyed 102 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles overnight, the country's Ministry of Defense said Tuesday via its official Telegram channel.
* An extensive travel ban issued by U.S. President Donald Trump took effect on Monday amid growing chaos over the Trump administration's immigration enforcement.
* Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed Monday she will attend the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Canada and expects a meeting with her U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.
* Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday his government would increase spending on the country's defence and security and achieve NATO's defence spending target this fiscal year.
* Iranian atomic chief has announced that Russia will construct eight nuclear power plants in Iran under a previously signed contract between the two countries, the official news agency IRNA reported.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for efforts to promote mutual understanding and global solidarity through dialogue. He made the appeal on the occasion of the first anniversary of the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations.
* About 700 U.S. Marines have been activated to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the country, U.S. Northern Command confirmed on Monday.
* Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Monday that the latest proposal from the United States is not the outcome of the previous rounds of negotiations, and Iran will submit its proposal to the U.S. through Oman.
* Turkey on Monday condemned Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound aid ship in international waters, calling the move a "clear violation of international law."
* A humanitarian convoy named Soumoud, meaning "steadfastness" in Arabic, departed from the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, with a goal to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP).
* Iran's top security body warned on Monday that its armed forces would immediately target Israel's "secret nuclear facilities" if the Islamic Republic comes under military attack, following claims it has obtained "sensitive Israeli intelligence."
* The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) on Monday condemned the violation of the truce in the capital, Tripoli, where clashes broke out earlier in the day between rival armed groups during Eid al-Adha celebrations.
* Yemeni security forces rescued 177 African migrants, including dozens of women, from a human trafficking ring in the Bab al-Mandab area along Yemen's Red Sea coast on Monday, a security source told Xinhua.
* Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of 4.2 billion USD in the first five months of 2025, up 52 percent compared to the same period last year, said a Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC)'s report released on Tuesday.
* Republic of Korea's current account surplus fell in April compared to the previous month due to the negative effect of the U.S. tariffs imposition, central bank data showed Tuesday. Current account balance, the broadest measure of cross-border trade, recorded a surplus of 5.70 billion USD in April, down from 9.14 billion dollars tallied in March, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK).
* The Bank of Spain has revised downward its economic growth forecasts for the country, cutting the projection for 2025 from 2.7 percent to 2.4 percent, and that for 2026 to 1.8 percent, due to uncertainty stemming from U.S. tariff policies.
* Slovenia's gross domestic product (GDP) growth will reach 1.3 percent, down from 2.2 percent forecast in December, the Bank of Slovenia said in a report on Monday. It also cut GDP growth forecast for 2026 to 2.4 percent from 2.8 percent it had forecast earlier.
* Amid a fresh rise in COVID-19 infections in several neighboring countries, the Bangladeshi interim government has asked people to refrain from traveling to those destinations unless absolutely necessary.
* Romania's National Meteorological Administration (ANM) issued an orange alert on Monday as torrential rain and strong winds battered Bucharest and the surrounding Ilfov County.
