* Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said Tuesday that he will decide when to dissolve the parliament's lower house after assessing various circumstances, amid speculation that he will call a snap election soon.
* Chinese president Xi Jinping met with Honduran President Xiomara Castro in Beijing Monday afternoon, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
* United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday he is concerned that Russia will next month quit a deal allowing the safe wartime export of grain and fertilizers from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports.
* Ukrainian pilots could begin training to fly U.S.-manufacture F-16 fighter jets as soon as this summer, the Dutch defense minister has told Reuters, a first step toward supplying Kyiv with a powerful, long-term capability in its conflict with Russia.
* The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Monday started Air Defender 2023, its largest ever air force deployment exercise.
* Iran will accept further monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) providing that the sanctions are lifted, said the spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) on Sunday.
* British authorities detected 616 migrants crossing the Channel in small boats on June 11, the British government said on Monday, the highest number in a single day so far this year.
* Thousands of residents at the foot of the Philippines' most active Mayon volcano in Albay province are bracing for a long eruption that can drag on for "several months," the country's chief volcanologist said on Monday.
* Egypt and the Republic of Korea have signed a financing deal worth 460 million USD on manufacturing 40 trains that include 320 carriages for the second and third lines of the metro in Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of International Cooperation announced Tuesday.
* Myanmar exported more than 117,201 tons of green grams in the first two months of the 2023-24 fiscal year, according to the country's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tuesday approved a 400 million USD loan to support Bangladesh's economic recovery.
* Foreign direct investment (FDI) that flowed into the Philippines dropped by 30.7 percent in March compared to the same period in 2022, reaching 548 million USD, the Philippine central bank said Tuesday.
* The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the State Bank of Pakistan has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 21 percent upon the expectation that the surging inflation will fall from June onwards, the central bank said in a statement.
* New Zealand is embracing a tourism rebound as more than 600,000 visitors will arrive for a Kiwi winter experience.
