* A general election has been declared in Greece for June 25, Greek national news agency AMNA reported on Monday. Although the conservative New Democracy party won the May 21 elections in the country with 40.79 percent of the vote, no single party secured a parliamentary majority.
* Ukraine launched its biggest ever drone attack on Moscow on Tuesday but air defences destroyed all eight of the drones, Russia said, bringing the 15-month conflict in Ukraine to the heart of the capital.
* Armenia and Azerbaijan hurled fresh accusations at each other two days before new talks aimed at clinching a peace accord to resolve decades of disputes over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
* Sudan's warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement, after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in the capital threw fresh doubts on the effectiveness of a truce designed to ease a humanitarian crisis.
* The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia would take part at the "proper level" in a planned summit in South Africa of the BRICS nations, responding to a question whether President Vladimir Putin would attend the gathering.
* A top Israeli official played down prospects for a U.S.-brokered diplomatic breakthrough with Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, describing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government as "in a fog" on any progress in related talks between Riyadh and Washington.
* Over 50 civilians and more than 40 NATO soldiers were injured in a clash between NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR) and Serb protesters in front of the Zvecan municipality building in northern Kosovo on Monday, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
* The Ukrainian parliament on Monday endorsed a decision of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) to impose sanctions on Iran for 50 years, lawmaker Oleksii Honcharenko said on Telegram.
* France's foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it was vital stability was restored in northern Kosovo immediately given its importance to European security after Serbia put the army on the highest level of combat alert.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday on the denunciation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).
* The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has resolved nuclear issues with Iran relating to one of three sites being investigated over the presence of uranium particles, Iranian media reported on Tuesday.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday agreed to "immediately" upgrade the diplomatic relations between the two countries and exchange ambassadors, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.
* Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) Chairman Rashad Al-Alimi praised on Monday the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for its constructive role in Yemen's efforts to achieve unity and peace, Yemen's Saba news agency reported.
* China's Shenzhou-16 crewed spaceship successfully docked with the space station combination on Tuesday, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
* The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Monday successfully launched a second-generation navigation satellite NVS-01, officials said.
* Japan's unemployment rate in April dropped 0.2 percentage point from a month earlier to 2.6 percent, marking the first improvement in three months amid the recovery of job market, the government said in a report Tuesday.
* European stocks were steady on Tuesday, with defensive sectors in the lead as uncertainty remained on whether Congress will clear a U.S. debt ceiling deal and avert a catastrophic default.
* OPEC will welcome Iran’s full return to the oil market when sanctions are lifted, the secretary general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) told the Iranian oil ministry's website SHANA on Monday.
* After 20 years of ban, Indonesia has now issued a regulation that reopens the export of marine sediment in the form of sea sand, local media reported on Monday.
* The digital payment ecosystem of Pakistan continued to grow as the overall e-banking transactions witnessed growth in the third quarter (Q3) of the fiscal year 2023 starting from July 2022 to June 2023, according to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).
* The Trinidad and Tobago government accepted bid recommendations for six of eight onshore oil and gas exploration blocks, people close to the matter said on Sunday, setting the stage for awards to be disclosed as soon as this week.
