* Malaysia has attracted a total of 42.8 billion ringgit (about 10.2 billion USD) approved investments in the manufacturing, services and primary sectors, involving 910 projects from January to March, official data showed Tuesday.
* Indian government Tuesday unveiled a new recruitment scheme for armed forces aimed at cutting down salary and pension bills. The scheme called Agnipath (path of fire) aims to recruit soldiers in the army, the navy and the air force, largely on a short-term contractual basis.
* US President Joe Biden will discuss energy production as part of his trip this month to the Middle East, including to Saudi Arabia, White House's National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.
* French President Emmanuel Macron urged the French people on Tuesday to give his party a "solid majority" in the second round of the legislative elections on Sunday.
* Warring parties Saudi Arabia and the Yemen's Houthi movement have resumed direct talks to discuss security along the kingdom's border and future relations under any peace deal with Yemen, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
* Denmark and Canada will divide the small, uninhabited island in the Arctic known as Hans Island, ending an almost 50-year long ownership spat, in a largely symbolic act of diplomacy designed to avoid tensions in the high North.
* India's wholesale price index (WPI) rose to 15.88 percent in May, data released by the federal ministry of commerce and industry on Tuesday said. In April, wholesale price inflation was recorded at 15.08 percent.
* Russia will start to restrict public access to some government data in a bid to protect the country from additional sanctions, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.
* British Prime minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday said his government would keep going with plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda, despite a raft of legal challenges.
* Swedish consumers are witnessing the highest inflation since 1991, with consumer prices, measured with a fixed interest rate, rising from 6.4 percent in April to 7.2 percent in May, Statistics Sweden said on Tuesday.
* Ukraine does not face a shortage of grain despite a projected harvest decline, the country's Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday.
* Italy's labor input outpaced economic growth in the first quarter (Q1) of this year, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) revealed Monday.
* The United Arab Emirates' federal government aims to increase spending by 1.23 billion dirhams ($334.9 million) in the 2022 budget, the Federal National Council said on Twitter on Tuesday.
* Soldiers in Burkina Faso have recovered 79 bodies so far after an attack in the northern Seno province over the weekend, the government said on Tuesday, as new details of the assault emerged.
* The Irish government on Tuesday said it plans to replace the current minimum wage with a new 'living wage' that will be set at 60% of the median wage in any given year.
* European Union governments are intensifying pressure on Pfizer PFE.N and other COVID-19 vaccine makers to renegotiate contracts, warning millions of shots that are no longer needed could go to waste, according to EU officials and a document.
* China reported 230 new coronavirus cases for June 13, of which 95 were symptomatic and 135 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Tuesday.
* Saudi Arabia announced the lifting of measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the state news agency reported, citing an official in the interior ministry.
* United Airlines said on Monday searches for international travel have increased after the United States ended a 17-month-old requirement that air travellers arriving in the country test negative for COVID-19.
* Canada on Tuesday will suspend its requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for domestic travel and to work in the public service, a government source said, after provinces lifted most local health restrictions.
* Moderna's MRNA.O COVID-19 vaccine may pose a higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer-BioNTech's PFE.N, BNTX.O in shot some age groups, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
* The Health Protection Agency (HPA) of the Maldives has warned that the number of COVID-19 cases in the country was on the rise again, local media reported on Tuesday.
* Another 104 cases of monkeypox have been recorded in England, taking the national count to 470, the Health Security Agency said Monday in a statement.
