* Iran's government decided on Monday that the country's 14th presidential election would be held on June 28, the official news agency IRNA reported.
* UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland on Monday called for the resumption of negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang has highlighted the role of the financial sector in serving the real economy and urged efforts to promote the sector's high-quality development.
* Countries raised a record $104 billion last year by charging firms for emitting carbon dioxide, but prices remain too low to drive changes needed to meet Paris climate accord targets, the World Bank said in a report on Tuesday.
* French President Emmanuel Macron will travel to the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Tuesday, a government spokesperson said, just over a week after riots erupted in the French overseas territory, killing six.
* Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Tuesday Solomon Islands' newly elected Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele had told him the Pacific Island nation is undertaking a security review that will determine the future of policing cooperation.
* Spain declared the withdrawal of its ambassador to Buenos Aires "permanent" on Tuesday in an escalation of its response to Argentine President Javier Milei's derogatory comments about the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told an EU leadership debate that a capital markets union has to be completed in the next Commission to unlock hundreds of billions of euros for investments.
* The Council of the European Union (EU) announced on Tuesday that ministers from EU member states have agreed to use proceeds from frozen assets of the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) to support Ukraine's military efforts.
* Finland is considering adopting the European standard railroad gauge, Finnish Transport and Communications Minister Lulu Ranne said on Tuesday at a logistics meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
* France is open to the United Arab Emirates investing in its nuclear power and artificial intelligence industries, its finance minister said on Tuesday, ahead of signing a strategic partnership with the Gulf state on AI.
* Turkey's energy minister held talks with Chinese authorities and companies on mining projects, nuclear and renewable energy this week, his ministry said on Tuesday, and the two countries signed a preliminary pact on energy conversion.
* Moldova has signed a security and defence partnership with the European Union, the first country to agree such a deal with the bloc, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday.
* Over 15,000 soldiers who had deserted the Sri Lankan army have received a legal discharge from their duties during a month-long amnesty period declared by the Ministry of Defense, the army said in a statement in Colombo Tuesday.
* The head of the World Health Organization called on Tuesday for Israel to lift restrictions on aid into Gaza saying that the primary pipeline for emergency medical aid into the enclave from Egypt had been cut off.
* The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday that food distribution in Gaza's southern city of Rafah were currently suspended due to lack of supplies and insecurity.
* Forging formal Israeli-Saudi relations as part of an emerging trilateral deal involving Washington would require a calming of the Gaza war and a discussion of prospects for Palestinian governance, the U.S. envoy to Jerusalem said on Tuesday.
* Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis on Monday urged the international community to promote the two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
* Qatar's foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari said on Tuesday the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release talks between Israel and Hamas remain “close to a stalemate”.
* The Israeli Defense Ministry signed 760-million-USD worth of contracts with the Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems for ammunition supply, according to separate statements issued by the ministry and the company on Tuesday.
* More than 35,647 Palestinians have been killed and 79,852 injured in the Israeli military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
* Gunmen suspected to be separatists on Monday shot dead three officials, including a mayor, in Cameroon's war-torn English-speaking region of Northwest, according to the army and officials.
* The central banks of China and Thailand on Tuesday inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) concerning a framework for cooperation to promote bilateral transactions in local currencies.
* South Korea's export rose in single digits in the first 20 days of this month due to strong demand for locally-made semiconductors, customs office data showed Tuesday.
* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday said that while Italy had good recoveries from economic shocks in recent years, the economy's prospects were only "moderate" going forward.
* The European Investment Bank (EIB) will grant Poland a 300-million-euro (326 million USD) loan to finance its satellite program, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday.
* The capacity utilization of the manufacturing industry in Malaysia reached 80.8 percent in the first quarter, an improvement of 1 percentage point from the 79.8 percent recorded a year ago, official data showed Tuesday.
* Sri Lanka's cumulative merchandise exports between January and April 2024 increased by 3.55 percent to nearly 4 billion USD compared to the same period of 2023, according to data released by the Export Development Board (EDB) on Tuesday.
* Tourism accommodation in Namibia rose by 7 percent in April compared to the same period last year, signaling encouraging development in the industry, a trade association said on Tuesday.
* South Africa is in talks with groups helping to fund its switch to a greener economy about delaying the closure of some coal plants as it battles to boost power supplies, and is optimistic of an agreement, the head of its state electricity utility said.
* Australia's competition watchdog said on Tuesday that the country's aviation industry appears to have recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic, with passenger levels and capacity back to pre-pandemic levels.
* Severe turbulence on the Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore has left one passenger dead and 30 others injured, forcing an emergency landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Thailand's capital Bangkok on Tuesday, Thai authorities said.
* More than 30,000 people have been affected by floods across Afghanistan since this year, the United Nations (UN) has said.
* The damage caused by the El Nino dry spell and drought to Philippine agriculture has reached 9.5 billion pesos (roughly 163 million USD), the Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.
