* President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was open to peace talks over Ukraine, but that the only way to stop the conflict was for Western countries to end their arms supplies to Kyiv.
* Japan will host a meeting of security advisers with the United States and South Korea in Tokyo on June 15, and with the United States and the Philippines on June 16, Jiji news agency reported on Tuesday.
* Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang met with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese state media reported.
* U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Grossi visited Kyiv on Tuesday, where he met President Volodymyr Zelenskiy before travelling to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant near where a huge river dam was destroyed last week.
* Poland on Tuesday hit back at Ukrainian criticism of subsidies it is giving to farmers, labelling a deputy minister's accusation that the aid was not in line with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules as "unjustified".
* Nearly 3,800 people died on migration routes within and from the Middle East and North Africa last year, the highest number recorded there since 2017, according to data published on Tuesday by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
* Sudan's warring factions are not taking advantage of talks facilitated by the United States and Saudi Arabia meant to yield a permanent ceasefireas they originally agreed, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Tuesday.
* Kosovo's prime minister on Tuesday presented a plan to defuse tensions in its Serb-majority north that would include fresh local elections and cuts in special police, bowing to pressure from key Western supporters of its independence.
* Kuwait has concluded a contract worth $367 million with Turkish defence firm Baykar to buy its TB2 drones through direct negotiations between the two governments, the Kuwaiti army said in a statement on Tuesday.
* The United States will extend deportation relief and work permits for more than 300,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Nepal, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Tuesday.
* Four boys drowned in rough seas off the western Indian financial hub of Mumbai on Tuesday as India and Pakistan began evacuating people from coastal areas, two days before a cyclone is expected to make landfall.
