* Ireland officially recognized Palestine as a statehood on Tuesday, in a move coordinated with Spain and Norway.
* Indonesian President Joko Widodo met with Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Mathias Cormann in Jakarta on Tuesday, discussing OECD's plans to continue Indonesia's accession process toward full membership.
* Pakistan's ruling party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Tuesday elected the country's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as its president, the party announced.
* The 93 members elected to 20th parliamentary assembly took oath at a ceremony held at the parliament on Tuesday morning, local media reported. Their oath was administered by Maldivian Chief Justice Muthasim Adnan.
* Dick Schoof, a top Dutch civil servant, has been named as new prime minister of the Netherlands, the four political parties involved in forming a right-wing government announced on Tuesday.
* Venezuela has revoked its invitation for the European Union to send election observers for a presidential contest in July, Elvis Amoroso, the head of the National Electoral Council (CNE) said on Tuesday.
* Haiti's transition council on Tuesday asked former Prime Minister Garry Conille, who led the country for a short stint over a decade ago, to return to the role as the Caribbean nation works to restore stability and take back control from violent gangs, a member of the council told Reuters.
* A total of 2,238,360 Mongolian citizens are eligible to vote in Mongolia's upcoming parliamentary elections, the country's General Authority for State Registration announced on Tuesday.
* Toni Grebla, president of Romania's Permanent Electoral Authority (AEP), announced on Tuesday that 207,389 candidates will be running in the upcoming local elections, and 494 candidates will be competing in the European Parliament elections on June 9.
* The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced regulatory changes to allow more American financial support for Cuba's nascent private sector and bolster access to U.S. internet-based services, modest but timely measures that officials said would help give the island's budding small businesses a leg up.
* NATO is practicing nuclear strikes against Russia, Army General Vladimir Kulishov, first deputy director of Russia's Federal Security Service and head of the Border Service, said on Tuesday.
* Russia will continue its special military operation in Ukraine even if the Western countries stepped up their military presence there, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
* France and Germany's leaders said on Tuesday Ukraine should be allowed to hit military sites inside Russia from which missiles were being fired at Ukrainian territory, but not other targets.
* Germany and the Czech Republic are pushing the European Union to hold talks on how to eliminate the remaining energy sources Europe imports from Russia, EU diplomats told Reuters on Tuesday.
* Russian attacks have destroyed more than 8 GW or about 40 percent of Ukraine's power generation capacity, the country's state-run energy company Ukrenergo said Tuesday in a post on Telegram.
* Belgium announced its commitment on Tuesday to deliver 30 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine by 2028.
* Fifteen countries of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have contributed more than 1.6 billion euros (1.74 billion USD) to a Czech initiative to buy ammunition for Ukraine in non-EU countries, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said in Plague on Tuesday.
* United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrived in South Korea on Tuesday, where his plane was met by an honorary escort of four fighter jets before he landed for his first state visit to Asia's fourth-biggest economy.
* Algeria will propose on Tuesday a draft United Nations Security Council resolution to "stop the killing in Rafah," Algeria's U.N. Ambassador Amar Bendjama told reporters after a closed-door meeting of the 15-member body on the Gaza Strip.
* The Biden administration said on Tuesday it was closely monitoring the probe into a deadly Israeli airstrike it called tragic, but that the recent deaths in Rafah didn't constitute a major ground operation there that crosses any U.S. red lines.
* Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for the Palestinian presidency, blamed the U.S. administration on Tuesday for the ongoing escalation in Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip.
* Israel's military denied striking a tent camp west of Rafah on Tuesday after Gaza health authorities said Israeli tank shelling had killed at least 21 people there, in an area Israel has designated a civilian evacuation zone.
* The White House said on Tuesday it opposes imposing sanctions against International Criminal Court officials over the prosecutor's request for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders over the Gaza war.
* Germany will keep its military air transport hub in Niger's capital Niamey open for now, the defence ministry in Berlin said late on Tuesday, shortly after the European Union announced it would end its military mission in the country by June 30.
* U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the need to urgently end the war in Sudan with Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan in a phone call on Tuesday, the State Department said.
* A warplane of the naval coalition of the United States and Britain launched two airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Tuesday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
* British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party said it would create 100,000 more high skilled apprenticeship places per year by 2029 if it wins a national election on July 4.
* Russia’s finance ministry on Tuesday proposed introducing extra progressive income tax rates for those earning more than 2.4 million roubles ($27,100) annually, as well as raising the mineral extraction tax for fertiliser and iron ore producers.
* Iraq's oil ministry on Tuesday called for meeting "as soon as possible" with the Kurdistan region’s ministry of natural resources and international companies operating there to reach a deal on resuming oil exports via a pipeline to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
* South Korea's population was expected to fall in almost all regions by 2052 due to the chronically low births, statistical office estimates showed Tuesday. The country's total population was forecast to slide from 51.67 million in 2022 to 46.27 million in 2052 after peaking at 51.75 million in 2024, according to Statistics Korea.
* India on Tuesday announced a financial aid of 1 million USD for Papua New Guinea after a devastating landslide that claimed hundreds of human lives in the Pacific island country a few days ago.
* Thousands of residents are being evacuated from the still-active massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's remote Enga province on Tuesday, after parts of a mountain collapsed early Friday, burying over 2,000 people.
* Storms and rainfall-induced landslides triggered in the aftermath of Cyclone Remal killed at least 32 people and injured many others across India's West Bengal and four northeastern states, officials said Tuesday.
* More than 730,000 customers in the U.S. state of Texas were still without power after storms hit the state, according to an update of PowerOutage.us on Tuesday morning.
* Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has warned of potential droughts and peatland fires as the dry season is already starting in some regions of the archipelago.
