* Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang said on Tuesday that Beijing would maintain lines of communication with all parties to the conflict in Ukraine, including Germany, in seeking a ceasefire.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov agreed to deepen military and military technical cooperation in a joint statement issued by the leaders following their talks in Moscow on Monday.
* US President Joe Biden will become the first US sitting president to visit Papua New Guinea this month with a trip following the G7 in Japan, marking the administration's investment in the Pacific region.
* Japan's lower house of parliament during a plenary session on Tuesday passed a contentious bill to amend an immigration law allowing authorities to deport foreign nationals who apply for refugee status multiple times.
* Ukraine has alternative ways of transporting grain if a deal on safe Black Sea exports is not extended on May 18, and would not see that outcome as an "apocalyptic scenario", its agriculture minister said.
* In one of Switzerland's largest military exercises in more than three decades, soldiers rehearsed repelling a fictional enemy, tossed grenades and fired live munitions as they showcased the self-defence capabilities that define their "armed neutrality".
* Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, chairman of Sudan's Sovereign Council and commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Army, said on Tuesday that the Sudanese government is open to any initiative that may help relieve the suffering of the Sudanese people.
* Israeli fighter jets on Tuesday morning intensified airstrikes on military targets of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 12 people and injuring more than 20 others, said the Palestinian health ministry.
* The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Tuesday strongly condemned the Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip earlier in the day.
* Iran's chief nuclear negotiator said on Tuesday that the United States dealt a "fatal blow" to the rule of law at the international level by its "unlawful" withdrawal from a 2015 nuclear deal five years ago.
* FIFA president Gianni Infantino will visit the Palestinian territories on Sunday, a senior Palestinian official said on Monday.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 150 migrants were rescued and returned to Libya in the past week.
* Indonesia has reported an outbreak of African swine fever on a farm on the Riau Islands near Singapore, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday.
* The United States will officially put an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency on Thursday. The emergency was first instituted more than three years ago to provide funding and resources for the country to fight against the global pandemic.
* South Africa and Africa are expecting an increase in visitors from BRICS countries following the lifting of restrictions that had been put in place to tackle COVID-19, according to South African Tourism Minister Patricia De Lille.
* Myanmar earned 384 million USD from the exports of garments manufactured under the cut-make-pack (CMP) system in April this year, the state media citing the Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association reported on Tuesday.
* Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Monday said the country will continue its economic reforms and aims to double its gross domestic product (GDP) from the current 80 billion USD to 160 billion dollars in the coming years.
* Afghanistan's central bank Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB) sold 14 million USD by auction on Tuesday to stabilize the exchange rate of the national currency, the afghani, the bank said in a statement released in Kabul on Tuesday.
* Tunisian Minister of Economy and Planning Samir Saied on Monday called for strengthening economic ties with Spain and the implementation of cooperation programs between the two countries.
* The death toll in a bus mishap in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh has risen to 24, a local police official said on Tuesday.
* Sri Lanka's Department of Meteorology on Tuesday issued a red warning for fishing boats over strong winds and rough seas in the southeast Bay of Bengal and south Andaman Sea.
* The severe drought currently affecting Spain may mean that food prices will remain high, a spokesman for a major Spanish farming association has told Xinhua.
* Fifty-two people were injured, ten of them seriously, when a bus and a truck collided on Tuesday on the A12 highway in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, the German press agency dpa reported.
