* Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno issued a decree on Monday forming a new cabinet led by Prime Minister Allamaye Halina, who was appointed last week.
* Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape is likely to face a no-confidence motion with parliament resuming on Tuesday, after the opposition party nominated Rainbo Paita, who defected from Marape's cabinet days earlier, as alternate prime minister.
* Argentine President Javier Milei's cabinet chief Nicolas Posse has resigned, the presidency said Monday.
* China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that China and the United States held consultations on May 24 on maritime affairs, where both countries agreed to maintain dialogue and manage risks.
* Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos left for Brunei on Tuesday for a two-day state visit to strengthen defense and economic ties.
* German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and France's President Emmanuel Macron warned in a joint opinion piece for the Financial Times that the European Union had to make dramatic efforts to improve its competitiveness or risk seeing its way of living undermined.
* The launch of a military reconnaissance satellite on Monday by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) suffered a failure, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
* President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a meeting on Monday in Tashkent, according to the press service of the Uzbek leader.
* The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is in direct confrontation with Russia over conflict in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday. Earlier in the day, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called for lifting the restrictions on Ukraine using weapons supplied by NATO members to attack Russian territories, according to media reports.
* Poland is set to impose restrictions on the movement of Russian diplomats, the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday.
* Spain has pledged to grant about 1.13 billion euros (1.23 USD) worth of military equipment to Ukraine this year, under an agreement announced by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will visit Belgium on Tuesday and sign a security pact with Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, the Belgian government said.
* Oleksandr Syrsky, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said on Monday that he has signed documents allowing French military instructors to visit Ukrainian training centers.
* The Biden administration told Israel to take every precaution to protect civilians after a military strike in Rafah killed dozens of Palestinians, as it faced calls from some fellow Democrats to halt military shipments to Israel.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday an air strike in the area of Rafah in southern Gaza that killed dozens of Palestinians was not intended to cause civilian casualties and would be investigated.
* The Palestinian presidency expressed on Monday its readiness to immediately work on reopening the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
* Hamas has informed mediators that it will not participate in any negotiation for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip or a prisoner exchange deal after Israel's attack on the southernmost Gazan city of Rafah on Sunday night, a source in the movement said on Monday.
* Countries in the Middle East on Monday strongly condemned Israel's airstrike on tents housing displaced civilians in northwestern Rafah of the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the deaths of at least 45 Palestinians and injuries to numerous others.
* Several thousand demonstrators gathered in Paris on Monday evening to protest against Israel's military offensive in Gaza, said a Reuters photographer at the scene.
* Israel is voicing concern that the International Criminal Court could be preparing to issue arrest warrants for government officials on charges related to the conduct of its war against Hamas.
* The European Union agreed in principle on Monday to revive an EU civilian mission at Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip next to Egypt, but said it would need accords from all sides to press ahead, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
* A Palestinian medical official announced on Monday the closure of the Kuwaiti hospital, one of the two hospitals still functioning in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah, due to the Israeli military operation in the city.
* The Israeli government on Monday approved a 6.5-billion-shekel (about 1.77 billion USD) plan to help residents of the country's northern regions amid the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah on the Lebanese border.
* Egypt has warned against the safety risks facing its army personnel deployed on the border with the Gaza Strip, Egypt's Al-Qahera News TV channel reported Monday, citing a high-ranking security source.
* Iran's Interim President Mohammad Mokhber on Monday emphasized the need to use the untapped capacities of his country and Oman, especially in the economic sector, to significantly boost bilateral trade.
* Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday that his country's approach towards the indirect talks on lifting sanctions and facilitating the return of all parties to the 2015 nuclear deal remained unchanged.
* Yemen's Houthis said on Monday they launched attacks on three ships in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, and two U.S. destroyers in the Red Sea.
* Algeria and Slovenia signed on Monday several cooperation agreements, including a deal to boost Algeria's gas exports to Slovenia, Algeria's official APS news agency reported.
* A maritime exercise kicked off in the Gulf of Tunis on Monday to enhance the country's maritime search and rescue capabilities, the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) reported.
* The Japanese government on Monday retained its assessment of the country's economy as recovering moderately despite some stalling, adopting the same view for the fourth straight month.
* Forty-four flights carrying a combined 8,200 pilgrims from Yemen's Sanaa International Airport to Saudi Arabia's Jeddah will start operating from May 28, three sources from Yemen's government and the Yemeni Houthi group told Reuters.
* Azerbaijan wants to borrow $5 billion from international credit institutions in the coming years for large infrastructure projects, including in territories secured in a lightning military offensive in September, the finance minister told Reuters.
* Cyprus' government said on Monday it has scrapped a 1.3 billion dollar (1.2 billion euro) project for the development of Larnaca Port and a marina, citing a breach of contract by the developer.
* Guinea's growth rate is expected to fall to 4.2% in 2024, lower than the 5.4% initially projected, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said in a speech on Monday, citing various factors including aftereffects of the pandemic and an explosion at a major oil terminal.
* Damages caused by natural hazards such as storms and hail in Germany grew to 5.7 billion euros (6.2 billion USD) in 2023, up 1.7 billion euros on the previous year, the German Insurance Association (GDV) said on Monday.
* India's federal health ministry has advised employers to take essential heat safety measures at the workplace, officials said Monday. The advisory comes amid heat wave conditions that are prevalent in most parts of the country.
* At least 20 people have been killed after storms hit the U.S. states of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kentucky over the Memorial Day weekend.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is saddened by the catastrophic landslide in Papua New Guinea that has claimed hundreds of lives, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Sunday. The Papua New Guinea national disaster centre said that Friday's landslide in a remote village in the northern part of the country buried more than 2,000 people.
* The Australian government has announced an aid package for Papua New Guinea (PNG) following a deadly landslide.
* Strong gales and heavy rain triggered by the first major cyclone of the year lashed the coastlines of India and Bangladesh on Monday, killing at least 16 people and cutting power to millions.
* Philippine authorities said at least seven people had been killed by tropical storm Ewiniar, which hit the country on the weekend, and President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Tuesday that search and rescue efforts would continue.
* The United Nations relief agency has allocated 2 million USD from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for an urgent response to the cholera outbreak in Somalia, the UN said on Monday.
