* Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will travel to Tehran on Tuesday to meet Iranian officials, a day after the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group, Iran's official Press TV reported.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he would not send a delegation as planned to Washington after the United States did not veto a U.N. Security Council proposal calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
* China will accelerate the development of "new productive forces" and bolster stability and security for the global economy, Vice President Han Zheng said on Tuesday.
* Mariya Gabriel, the prime minister (PM) nominee from Bulgaria's largest political force in Parliament, the GERB-UDF coalition, withdrew her candidacy on Monday, increasing the likelihood of early parliamentary elections.
* Any global peace summit on Ukraine that excludes Russia is simply "absurd" and will fail, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Tuesday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the deadly terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall in suburban Moscow was carried out by radical Islamists, but many questions still remain.
* Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko inspected a tank battalion near the Lithuanian border and gave orders that any "provocation" there must be met with force, a Telegram channel close to his administration said on Tuesday.
* U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris hosted Guatemala's president, Bernardo Arevalo, at the White House on Monday to bolster his fledgling government and discuss how to reduce migration from Central America.
* President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the gunmen who killed 137 people in a concert hall outside Moscow were part of an Islamic State branch that was behind foiled attempts to attack France over the past few months.
* France will increase the numbers of soldiers for its 'Operation Sentinelle' unit, which deals with handling terrorist threats, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Monday.
* Security measures will be strengthened in shopping centers in the Kyrgyz capital after the terrorist attack in Moscow, the press service of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported Monday.
* Russia was discussing with the Central African Republic the location of a future Russian military base in the African country, Russian state-run news agency TASS cited Russian ambassador to the Central African Republic as saying on Tuesday.
* The Philippines declared on Tuesday a "strategic defeat" of the New People's Army (NPA) rebels, who have been fighting against the government since the 1960s, saying there is no more active guerilla fronts in the country.
* The World Bank on Monday launched its Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) Update for Thailand, highlighting five reform priorities for the Southeast Asian country to revitalize growth amid an enduring downturn.
* Canada on Monday began evacuating from Haiti Canadians who want to leave as gang violence spreads, prioritizing those who are vulnerable, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.
* Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said on Monday that countries should pressure Israel to stop attacking Lebanon following a U.N. Security Council decision calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the foreign policy chief of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, on Monday exchanged views on the latest developments in Gaza and Tehran's relations with the bloc.
* Egypt called on Monday for the immediate implementation of the just-adopted United Nations Security Council resolution that demands an immediate ceasefire for the first time since the outbreak of the Gaza conflict in October last year.
* King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday stressed the need for immediate action by the international community to mitigate the humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.
* Britain's Royal Air Force airdropped more than 10 metric tons of food supplies into Gaza for the first time on Monday, Britain's defence ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
* Militants attacked a Pakistan naval airbase killing at least one paramilitary soldier while security forces killed all five of the assailants in retaliatory fire, officials said on Tuesday.
* Turkish authorities have detained 147 people over suspected ties to Islamic State in nationwide operations, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Tuesday.
* The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday highlighted the worsening health crisis in Yemen, saying that 17.8 million people, half of whom are children, are in urgent need of medical aid amid a resurgence of diseases.
* Wrapped in orange headscarves and blue school uniforms, over 100 Nigerian students and staff who were kidnapped this month arrived at the local government building in the country's north on Monday, a day after they were freed by the army.
* A Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian, a Belarusian and an American successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, live TV images showed.
* The Asian economy is expected to grow by around 4.5 percent in 2024, surpassing that of 2023, and continue to be the largest contributor to global economic growth, according to a report released Tuesday by the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA), which convenes its 2024 conference in Boao, a resort town in southern China's Hainan Province.
* The Republic of Korea's plastic card spending growth slowed last year due to sluggish domestic demand, central bank data showed Monday.
* France's public sector budget deficit widened last year by more than the government planned, official data showed on Tuesday, putting pressure on Paris as it struggles to keep its deficit reduction plans on track.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday mentioned the recent economic challenges of the country and vowed to place Turkey among the 10 biggest economies of the World in the upcoming years.
* Sri Lanka's cabinet has approved increasing the minimum wage by 40%, a top official said on Tuesday, to support workers struggling with living costs as the economy slowly shakes off its worst financial crisis in decades, helped by an IMF bailout.
* Nigeria's cabinet approved a 15-billion-yen ($99.15 million) concessionary loan from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to support farming in Africa's largest economy, Finance Minister Wale Edun said in Monday.
* The number of people living in poverty in Italy rose in 2023 to its highest level in about a decade, data showed on Monday, despite an economic rebound since COVID-linked restrictions were eased.
* Myanmar welcomed over 260,000 foreign tourists in the first two months of this year, according to the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism on Monday.
* Ibu volcano on Halmahera Island in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku erupted on Monday for about three minutes, throwing ash up to 2,500 meters above its peak, according to the country's Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation.
