* Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Russia remains ready to cooperate with Europe on oil and natural gas supplies, but needs clear signals from European countries indicating their willingness to cooperate.
* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has slammed the ongoing U.S.- Republic of Korea military exercises as "further destroying the stability of the region," reported the official Korean Central News Agency on Tuesday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S.-Israeli military strikes against Iran would be over "soon." When asked whether the strikes could be over this week at a press conference in Florida, Trump said no. "But soon. Very soon," he said.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday said that talks with the United States are no longer on Tehran's agenda. Speaking to U.S. PBS News, Araghchi emphasized that Iran is prepared to continue its missile operations for as long as necessary,
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he is "nowhere near" ordering U.S. ground troops into Iran to safeguard nuclear material at Isfahan, according to the New York Post.
* The United States on Monday suspended consular services at its consulate in southern Türkiye and ordered non-emergency government personnel and their families to leave the post, citing safety concerns.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said he had a "very good" phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine crisis and the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on Monday, saying his Russian counterpart "wants to be helpful" in the Middle East.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday that any violation of Turkish airspace "cannot be excused."
* British Defense Secretary John Healey said Monday that British forces are "conducting defensive air sorties" in support of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as Britain has stepped up military deployments across the Middle East following a sharp escalation in regional tensions.
* The destruction of a Russian cultural center in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh as a result of an Israeli attack was an act of "unprovoked aggression," said Russia's cultural promotion agency Rossotrudnichestvo on Monday.
* European Union (EU) leaders said on Monday that the bloc was ready to play a role in easing tensions in the Middle East, calling for de-escalation and a return to negotiations.
* Leaders in the Middle East on Monday urged diplomatic efforts to curb the escalating tensions in the region as the United States and Israel continued their joint attacks on Iran, prompting retaliatory strikes.
* Indonesia has called on the United States and Israel to stop attacks on Iran and urged Iran to halt strikes against neighboring countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday.
* The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday that air defense systems were intercepting incoming missiles and that residents had received mobile alerts warning of a potential missile threat.
* Several artillery shells fired from Lebanese territory landed near the town of Serghaya, west of Damascus, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported Tuesday.
* The Israeli military said on Monday that it struck the drone headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as it continued to expand its attacks in Iran.
* Türkiye's Defence Ministry said Monday that a missile launched from Iran was successfully intercepted over Türkiye's southeastern province of Gaziantep.
* Israel's military has killed about 1,900 Iranian soldiers and commanders since the start of the conflict, military spokesman Effie Defrin said on Monday, adding that Israel did not rule out targeting Iran's newly announced supreme leader.
* The death toll from Israeli attacks in Lebanon since March 2 has risen to 486, with 1,313 others injured, Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said on Monday.
* Four Bangladeshi nationals have been killed since the escalation of regional tensions in the Middle East, Bangladeshi State Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Md Nurul Haque said on Monday.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday called on the European Union (EU) to review and suspend sanctions on Russian energy, warning that rising oil prices and supply disruptions pose risks to regional energy security.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday announced a cap on retail fuel prices, citing rising oil prices linked to the war involving Iran and disruptions in oil transit through Ukraine.
* Returning to evidence-based trade decisions and ruling out unilateral tariffs must be priorities in the upcoming review of the North American trade pact, senior Mexican officials said Monday.
* Europe became the world's largest arms-importing region over the past five years, driven partly by increased procurement in response to the escalating Ukraine crisis and uncertainty over the U.S. commitment to the defense of its European allies, according to a report released on Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
* A top official of the European Union (EU) warned on Monday that a prolonged conflict in the Middle East could spill over into the global economy.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday announced a number of austerity and fuel-saving measures to deal with the fuel crisis triggered by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
* Malaysia is intensifying efforts to help Malaysian oil and gas services and equipment (OGSE) companies diversify their export destinations, strengthening resilience against global uncertainties and the evolving international supply chain landscape, a government agency said on Monday.
* Despite escalating tensions and ongoing conflict in Iran, commercial transit and trade activities between Afghanistan and Iran continue uninterrupted at the Islam Qala border crossing in western Herat province, according to local officials on Monday.
* Japan's gross domestic product expanded at an annualized rate of 1.3 percent in price-adjusted real terms in the fourth quarter of 2025, the Cabinet Office said Tuesday.
* The Republic of Korea's revised real gross domestic product (GDP), adjusted for inflation, grew 1 percent in 2025, unchanged from the preliminary figure unveiled in January, central bank data showed Tuesday. It was lower than an expansion of 2 percent in 2024, according to the Bank of Korea.
* Cambodia exported products worth 5.23 billion USD in the first two months of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 17.2 percent, said a General Department of Customs and Excise's report released on Tuesday.
* Brazil recorded 29,818 exporting companies in 2025, the highest number since records began in 2008, according to a report released Monday by the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services.
