* The Indian government Tuesday announced it has begun the auction of spectrum for telecom services worth 11.53 billion USD.
* The Indonesian government has allocated 71 trillion rupiah (approximately 4.33 billion USD) for the free school lunch program in the 2025 state budget, as announced by Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati at a press conference on Monday.
* Moscow expects to sign a new agreement on comprehensive cooperation with Iran "in the very near future," Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Russia's RIA state news agency in an interview published on Tuesday.
* The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy and delivered a formal protest, or demarche, regarding Sunday's deadly Ukrainian attack on Sevastopol, according to a statement released on Monday.
* Ukraine is expecting to sign a security agreement with the European Union (EU) in the near future, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday.
* Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Spanish King Felipe VI visited a Lithuanian air force base on Monday and met with the Spanish troop participating in the Baltic air policing mission.
* Russia and India are preparing a visit to Russia by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian state news agency RIA quoted a Kremlin aide as saying on Tuesday.
* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will visit Russia, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday, citing Kremlin foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov.
* The first shipment of ammunition from a Czech initiative has already arrived in Ukraine, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in a post on social media platform X on Tuesday.
* Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel remained committed to its proposed Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal, and his military chief said the remaining Hamas forces in the southern Gaza city of Rafah were nearly dismantled.
* Israeli forces killed at least 24 Palestinians in three separate airstrikes early on Tuesday on Gaza City and the dead included a sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of the militant Islamist Hamas group, Gaza health officials and medics said.
* A revenge attack triggered by a cattle raid earlier this month has killed at least 17 people in northern South Sudan and forced oil workers to evacuate from the Toma South oil field, a local official said on Monday.
* The South Korean government ordered on Tuesday urgent safety inspections at high-risk industrial sites a day after a fire at a lithium battery factory that killed 22 workers with one person still missing.
* An airport in India's southwestern state of Karnataka Monday received a bomb threat email, prompting authorities to initiate a search operation, police said.
* Saudi Arabia accused on Monday tourism companies from other countries of misleading visit visa holders into participating in the Hajj pilgrimage.
* Saudi Arabia announced Sunday it recorded 1,301 deaths among pilgrims during Hajj season, 83 percent of whom were unregistered individuals.
* Iran and Bahrain have started talks on the release of Iran's assets which are currently frozen in Bahrain, the official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
* Yemen's Houthi group on Sunday claimed responsibility for attacking two cargo ships in the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said that 973 migrants were intercepted and returned off the coast of Libya in the past week.
* The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on Monday, urging member states to take accelerated action to reduce deaths and injuries from traffic accidents worldwide by implementing the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030.
* A UN official on Monday highlighted the ongoing terrorist threats and dire humanitarian needs in Somalia, urging global partners to provide funding to help improve the situation there.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday expressed resolve to eradicate polio virus from the country, the prime minister's office said in a statement.
* A highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza has spread to an eighth poultry farm near Melbourne, the government of Australia's Victoria state said on Tuesday, taking the total number of infected facilities in the country to 10.
* Japan stands ready to take appropriate steps against volatile currency moves at "any time," the country's top currency diplomat said Monday, as the yen neared the 160 line against the USD, a level that previously prompted authorities to intervene in the market.
* Hungary will end compulsory price cuts on certain basic foodstuffs for large retailers from July amid a fall in inflation, the economy ministry said on Tuesday.
* South Korea's consumer sentiment rebounded this month on the back of export growth and slower inflation, central bank data showed Tuesday. The composite consumer sentiment index (CCSI), which gauges the sentiment of consumers over economic situation, gained 2.5 points over the month to 100.9 in June, according to the Bank of Korea (BOK).
* The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved 150 million USD in financing for Sri Lanka to improve the quality and utilization of its primary healthcare services, according to a statement on Monday.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Monday that it has approved the funding of 56 million USD to Kyrgyzstan to improve wastewater management and enhance sustainable and inclusive tourism in the Issyk-Kul region, renowned for its tourist appeal and importance.
* Singapore's core inflation, as measured by the consumer price index (CPI), came in 3.1 percent year-on-year in May, unchanged from April, official data showed Monday.
* Business insolvencies in Germany reached its highest level in around 10 years with figures from the first half of 2024 increasing by 30 percent year-on-year, credit agency Creditreform said Monday.
* Brazil's financial market maintained its 2024 economic growth forecast almost unchanged, even after the Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of Brazil's Central Bank decided last week to pause the monetary easing policy adopted in August, the bank said on Monday.
* Argentina's gross domestic product (GDP) fell 5.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) reported on Monday.
* Myanmar exported 181,996 tons of green grams between April 1 and June 14 of this fiscal year 2024-25, earning more than 118 million USD, according to the country's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday.
* The construction of 150 agricultural and infrastructural projects worth 4.5 million USD has begun in west Afghanistan's Herat province in less than one year, a local official said on Monday.
* Trade volume between Algeria and Turkey reached 6.3 billion USD in 2023, said Algeria's Minister of Trade and Export Promotion Tayeb Zitouni on Monday.
* The death toll in the consumption of tainted bootleg liquor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has risen to 58, officials said Monday. Over 150 people are still undergoing treatment at different hospitals.
