* Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she would encourage broad discussions over proposed constitutional reforms, including a judicial overhaul that has spooked markets, before the next congressional session kicks off.
* South Africa's newly elected parliament will convene on Friday, the office of the chief justice said on Monday, adding to the sense of urgency for political parties to form a governing alliance after none of them won a majority of seats.
* Mozambique's National Electoral Commission (CNE) has released the voter registration results for the general elections slated in October, revealing that 17,163,686 voters, both at home and abroad, have been registered, exceeding the initial forecast of 16,497,501 voters.
* Mongolia on Monday officially launched the campaign for the country's regular parliamentary elections. Mongolia, with a population of 3.5 million, has set June 28 as the date for its next elections of the State Great Khural, the country's unicameral parliament.
* Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's far-right party has strengthened its hand with a strong showing in the European Parliament elections ending Sunday night. However, Italy's main opposition party also gained ground.
* The Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo, submitted the collective resignation of his government to King Philippe on Monday. The sovereign accepted the resignation and asked De Croo to continue handling current affairs until a new government is formed.
* The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a resolution aimed at reaching a comprehensive ceasefire deal in three phases to end the war in Gaza.
* The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, its ally the Islamic Jihad group and the rival Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas’s welcomed a U.N. Security Council resolution backing a proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang will pay official visits to New Zealand, Australia and Malaysia from June 13 to 20, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian announced on Tuesday.
* India will focus on finding solutions to the border issues with China that has long strained ties between the neighbouring countries, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday after assuming charge for a second straight term.
* Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said the country should be prepared for any eventuality because of more pronounced external threats driven by heightened tension in the Indo-Pacific.
* Russian and Belarusian troops have started the second stage of tactical nuclear drills in Russia, Russia's defence ministry said on Tuesday.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended his proposal for peace talks involving both Russia and Ukraine in a call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, according to a statement from Brazil's presidential palace on Monday.
* Russia's Ministry of Agriculture said Tuesday that the country's grain exporters will shift their focus to key markets in the Middle East and North Africa, and strengthen relationships with India and China.
* Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok will not attend the summit of the Bucharest Nine, a group of European countries on the eastern edge of NATO in Riga on Tuesday, Latvian president's office said.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had arrived in Germany for a conference on Ukraine's post-war recovery and would also hold talks with Chancellor Olaf Sholz.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemns the heavy civilian casualties in Israel's hostage rescue operation over the weekend, said his spokesman on Monday.
* U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged Arab leaders to pressure Hamas to accept a ceasefire proposal outlined ten days ago by U.S. President Joe Biden to end the eight month-long war in Gaza.
* Poland will reintroduce a no-go zone at its border with Belarus on Thursday, the deputy interior minister said on Monday, in a move to increase security following the death of a Polish soldier after he was stabbed on the border by migrants.
* Iran's Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and Igor Levitin, senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Monday reaffirmed the two countries' commitment to the implementation of the joint projects.
* Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that new immigration measures recently adopted by the United States had not caused an increase in the migration flow along the Mexico-U.S. border.
* Ukraine's energy sector suffered 56.2 billion USD in damages and losses due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) said in a report on Monday.
* France's snap parliamentary elections are negative for the country's credit score, ratings agency Moody's has warned.
* The Ukrainian military struck three Russian missile systems in Crimea early Monday morning, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement.
* The Israeli military said Monday it has established a new battalion solely focused on operating the country's Iron Dome aerial defense system to better intercept the growing number of drones from Lebanon.
* Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has appealed to the international community for help in the search and rescue efforts after the plane with Vice President Saulos Chilima on board went missing Monday morning.
* UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix on Monday praised Tunisia's contribution to the different UN missions it participates in, said a statement released by Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
* Bankole Adeoye, the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, stressed on Monday in Algiers the need for UN Security Council reform, while calling for negotiations among African countries to accelerate this reform.
* Chinese police preliminarily judged that the stabbing of four American educators was a random incident and the investigations are ongoing, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
* A Su-34 fighter jet of the Russian Aerospace Forces crashed in North Ossetia on Tuesday due to technical malfunction, killing the crew member aboard, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
* Indonesia's forthcoming Independence Day celebrations in Nusantara, the new capital city in Kalimantan, will be presided over by President Joko Widodo with President-elect Prabowo Subianto in attendance, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy said on Monday.
* Thirty-eight migrants coming from the Horn of Africa were killed after their boat capsized off Yemen's Aden, a local official and witnesses said on Monday.
* The Cyber Security Brunei (CSB) has successfully suspended or taken down 1,023 phishing websites, according to the Minister of Transport and Infocommunications of Brunei.
* Japan's Defense Ministry on Tuesday declared dead seven crewmen listed as missing since the fatal collision of two Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) patrol helicopters in April.
* New Zealand on Tuesday ended a plan to put a price on agricultural emissions including methane produced by belching sheep and cattle, relenting to farmer pressure that the plan would make their business unprofitable.
* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released the 17th instalment of the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi, or PM Farmers Tribute Fund, worth 200 billion Indian rupees (2.39 billion USD).
* Brazil's financial market raised its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for this year from 2.05 percent to 2.09 percent and maintained it at 2 percent for 2025, Brazil's Central Bank announced Monday.
* Cambodia attracted fixed-asset investment of 246 million USD in May, the Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) said in a news release on Monday.
* The Philippines' total external trade in goods increased by 17.2 percent in April 2024 to 17.19 billion USD from 14.66 billion dollars in April 2023, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.
* The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday announced a reduction in the key policy rate of 150 basis points (bps) to 20.5 percent with effect from Tuesday.
* British wages excluding bonuses - which are being watched by the Bank of England as it considers when to cut interest rates - grew by 6.0% in the three months to the end of April compared with the same period a year earlier, official data showed.
* The number of the unemployed in Malaysia declined by 0.04 percent month on month to 566,400 persons in April, registering an unemployment rate of 3.3 percent, official data showed Monday.
* Nepal's inflation moderated to a 31-month low at 4.4 percent in mid-May as the South Asian country has suffered from an economic slowdown, Nepal's central bank said on Monday.
* The Central Bank of Malta has revised its economic growth predictions downwards for 2024 and 2025 but remains optimistic for increased growth in 2026.
* Kenya has reached a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, the organisation said, paving the way for the disbursement of about $976 million.
* Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday said heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are likely to hit the South Asian country's northwest and east in the next five days.
