* Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has appointed Ahmadou Al Aminou Lo as the country's new prime minister, state broadcaster RTS reported Monday.
* Cambodia on Tuesday rejected claims that it had temporarily closed airports and placed land border checkpoints under restrictions.
* Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Mauro Vieira on Monday expressed his country's rejection of U.S. threats against Cuba, and called for resolving differences through diplomacy and respect for international law.
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov informed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a phone call on Monday that Russia was launching systematic strikes on facilities in Kiev used by the Ukrainian military, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
* Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the Russian armed forces are launching "consistent, systematic strikes" on Ukrainian military-industrial facilities in Kiev following a Ukrainian drone attack in Starobelsk in the Luhansk region.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law that authorizes the use of the Russian army to protect Russian citizens convicted or arrested by foreign courts or international tribunals, said a document published on the legal acts portal on Monday.
* Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday called for an independent investigation into the treatment of civilians aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla during a phone conversation with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
* Dozens of Palestinians, relatives of prisoners held in Israeli jails, staged a demonstration in Gaza City on Monday to protest the treatment of detainees and call on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to intervene.
* Saudi Arabia's position on the Palestinian issue remains unchanged, a Saudi source told Al Arabiya TV on Monday. The source affirmed the need for "an irreversible pathway to a Palestinian state."
* The U.S. military struck missile launch sites and mine-laying boats in southern Iran on Monday, the U.S. Central Command said.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran's enriched uranium will be destroyed after being handed over to the United States, in place, or at another "acceptable location."
* Iran has not agreed to transfer its enriched uranium abroad, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, rejecting a report by Saudi-based Al Hadath claiming "Iran is prepared to remove its highly enriched uranium from its territory."
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Monday held separate talks over phone with his counterparts of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Cyprus to discuss the ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran, as Cairo pushes for diplomatic solutions to avoid regional escalation.
* China is willing to continue playing a constructive role in the political and diplomatic settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue, to safeguard the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and promote peace and stability in the Middle East and the world, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said here on Tuesday.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel will increase the intensity of strikes in Lebanon to "crush" Hezbollah.
* Indonesia's rice production is expected to remain stable despite the risk of El Nino-triggered drought later this year, Deputy Agriculture Minister Sudaryono said on Monday.
* Malaysia's supply of medicines and medical devices remains stable with continuous mitigation measures being implemented, especially for critical and high-risk items, Economy Minister Akmal Nasrullah Mohd Nasir said on Monday.
* China aims to raise its urban household waste recycling utilization rate to above 76 percent by the end of 2030, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Monday.
* Sri Lanka is expected to record its highest-ever annual foreign worker remittances by the end of 2026, Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment Chairman Kosala Wickramasinghe said on Monday. Wickramasinghe told journalists that remittances reached 3.06 billion USD in the first four months of 2026.
* Indonesia's immigration authorities have established a systematic mechanism to prevent human trafficking across key stages of citizens' overseas travel, an official said on Monday.
* Georgia's poverty rate fell to 7.1 percent in 2025, with roughly 90,000 people lifted out of poverty, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced Monday.
* Singapore's inflationary pressures are expected to intensify in the coming months as higher energy costs linked to the Middle East conflict gradually feed into consumer prices, although economists said the full impact has yet to be reflected in current inflation data.
* Georgia's GDP is forecast to grow between 5 percent and 5.5 percent in 2026 and 2027, with robust consumer activity and expanding services sectors as the primary drivers, local media reported Monday, citing the Spring 2026 European Economic Forecast by the European Commission (EC).
* Greek police on Monday arrested 20 people on the island of Crete over their alleged involvement in an agricultural subsidy fraud network, as investigations into the misuse of European Union agricultural funds in Greece continue to expand.
* President of the Republic of the Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso announced Monday that African nationals will be able to enter the country visa-free starting on Jan. 1, 2027.
* Fiji's health ministry is urging the public to avoid non-essential travel to several central African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and Kenya, following the recent Ebola outbreak in the region.
* The Spanish Ministry of Health on Monday confirmed a new positive case of hantavirus among the 14 Spaniards who were among the passengers of the cruise ship MV Hondius affected by an outbreak of the disease while crossing the Atlantic Ocean in April.
* Nine people were killed and another 11 were unaccounted for as of Monday afternoon after heavy rain, which started on Saturday night, had battered Yongchuan District in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, said local authorities.
* At least 11 people were killed and 15 others injured as torrential rains and devastating flash floods swept through multiple provinces in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported on Monday.
* Temperatures in parts of England were forecast to reach 35 degrees Celsius on Monday as an exceptional May heatwave continued across Britain during the Bank Holiday weekend, said the Met Office on Monday.
