* Kosovo is open to the possibility of new elections in some northern municipalities following unrest, but other steps need to be taken, Kosovan Foreign Minister Donika Gervalla-Schwarz said on Tuesday.
* A high-level political meeting on Monday evening that included presidential contenders from Mexico's ruling National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) sought to promote party unity, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday.
* The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) excluded immediate risk to the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Tuesday after the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant dam in southern Ukraine was damaged.
* Russia remains open to a dialogue with the United States on arms control as it is "extremely important," but Moscow is waiting for specific proposals from Washington, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
* The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that their armed forces repelled a new attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) on the southern Donetsk front, resulting in the destruction of over 1,500 Ukrainian soldiers and 28 tanks, including eight Leopards.
* Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that during the expected counteroffensive against Russian forces this summer, Ukraine will not use F-16 aircraft, but will use all ground weapons.
* Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said late Monday that he, together with his African counterparts, will push for dialogue in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
* Two Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers completed a planned flight over the neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian seas, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
* Sudan's warring military factions clashed by air and on the ground in the country's capital on Tuesday, as increased violence and spreading lawlessness added to the misery of residents already struggling with limited food and medicine.
* Cyprus is launching an information campaign to counter a spike in irregular migration, authorities said on Tuesday, saying they were struggling with the highest inflows in the European Union.
* Egypt signed a deal with United Arab Emirates on Tuesday for a $10 billion wind energy project to produce 10 gigawatts of electricity, Egyptian state TV reported.
* Indian authorities made fervent appeals to families on Tuesday to help identify 83 unclaimed bodies kept in hospitals and mortuaries after the death toll in the country's deadliest rail crash in over two decades rose to 288.
* Egypt's President Abdelfattah al-Sisi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Saturday's rare border shooting in which three Israeli soldiers and an Egyptian security officer were killed, the leaders said in separate statements on Tuesday.
* Cambodia and Thailand on Tuesday launched the second phase of cross-border QR code payments, which will allow Thai nationals to shop in Cambodia using the Thai currency baht.
* Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved a proposal presented by the foreign minister to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and to take necessary steps for legislation to enforce the provisions of the agreement, said the government's information department on Tuesday.
* An Iranian naval commander has rejected a U.S. claim that Iranian speedboats "harassed" a commercial ship in the Strait of Hormuz, calling it "an absolute lie," the official news agency IRNA reported.
* Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov met with Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid on Monday.
* Kenyan police fired tear gas at hundreds of people protesting near parliament on Tuesday against a proposed finance bill that would hike taxes on fuel and housing.
* Finland will expel nine diplomats working at the Russian embassy in Helsinki, accusing them of working on intelligence missions, the Finnish president's office said on Tuesday.
* European Union countries are expected this week to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official said on Tuesday of what would mark a breakthrough after years of bitter feuds within the bloc.
* The British government's legal challenge to the COVID-19 public inquiry will likely be heard on June 30 or shortly afterwards, the counsel to the inquiry said on Tuesday.
* Thailand's consumer inflation growth fell to its lowest level in 21 months in May due to lower energy and food prices and the high comparative base from last year, official data showed on Tuesday.
* Russia's GDP is projected to grow by 1 percent this year, accompanied by an anticipated increase in real income for the population, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Tuesday.
* Indonesia's annual inflation has returned to the central bank's target range of 2 to 4 percent, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced on Monday.
* After a year of chaos, widespread strikes in the United Kingdom (UK) continued in early June, disrupting travel schedules across the country. The industrial action shows no sign of abating, and the economic impact is already severe.
* The European Union has extended to Sept. 15 restrictions on imports of Ukrainian grain demanded by five member states who sought to protect their agriculture sector, the European Commission said on Monday.
* The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said on Tuesday that it will support Sri Lanka in establishing a well-coordinated food safety system in the country.
* An Air India plane flying from Delhi to San Francisco was forced to divert and land in Russia after it developed a technical issue with one of its engines, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.
