* Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio will visit the Republic of Korea on May 7-8 for talks with President Yoon Suk Yeol, the governments of the two nations said on Tuesday.
* The state news agency of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday slammed the "legitimacy" rhetoric on the deployment of US nuclear strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula.
* Talks on a U.N-brokered deal that allows the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain are scheduled for Wednesday, with all sides in the negotiations involved, a senior Ukrainian source said on Tuesday.
* Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Myanmar and travel to India to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers' Meeting from May 2 to 5, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said Tuesday.
* British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said he expected to meet China's Vice President Han Zheng when senior Chinese figures visit London for King Charles' coronation later this week.
* Japan and the Republic of Korea held their first finance leaders' meeting in seven years on Tuesday and agreed to resume regular dialogue as tensions in the wider region and slowing growth prod them to increase co-operation and mend strained relations.
* The projected "all-for-all" prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia will take place in several stages, Ukraine's Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War said Monday.
* The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it had found after a risk assessment that there was a "moderate risk" related to the seizure of a public health laboratory in Sudan's capital Khartoum by one of the warring parties.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will pay a visit to Syria on Wednesday, the first visit by an Iranian president in 13 years, official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
* Turkey will be one of the five countries to produce the 5th-generation warplanes, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after the combat aircraft made its debut on Monday.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 484 migrants, including women and children, have been rescued and returned to Libya during the past week.
* Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM said it will send 39.8 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Tuesday, compared with 37 mcm on Monday.
* The Federal Reserve kicks off a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday that is likely to push the US central bank's benchmark overnight interest rate to its highest level in nearly 16 years, hitting a potential plateau that will test the economy in a way not seen since the onset of the financial crisis in 2007.
* The Australian government decided on Tuesday to take strong action to reduce smoking and stamp out vaping particularly among young people through stronger legislation, enforcement, education and support.
* The Biden administration will end most of the remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week, the White House said Monday.
* The COVID-19 positivity rate in Metro Manila increased to 17.2 percent as of April 29 from 10.2 percent on April 22, according to data released by a Philippine analyst on Tuesday.
* The Ukrainian government has approved the country's new strategy for energy development by 2050, the Energy Ministry said on Monday.
* French trade unions on Tuesday called for a new day of nationwide protests on June 6 against President Emmanuel Macron's pension reform.
* Health workers in the United Kingdom (UK) staged fresh walkouts on Monday and Tuesday over pay and conditions, after unions rejected the government's pay offer last month.
* Kenyan police fired tear gas at a small group of protesters in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday as the opposition resumed anti-government demonstrations following a one-month pause.
* Malaysian maritime authorities were searching on Tuesday for three crew missing from a Gabon-registered tanker a day after the 26-year-old vessel caught fire in waters off the southern coast.
* Israeli missiles hit the international airport and several military sites in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday night, killing one soldier and wounding seven others, the Syrian army said in a statement.
