* Chairman of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un left for Russia on a private train at dawn on Wednesday, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported. Kim was accompanied by senior party, state and military officials.
* The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday that it had detained nine suspected terrorists in the country's Far East and North Caucasus.
* US President Donald Trump will visit Britain and France in early June, said the White House on Tuesday.
* WTO rules on food safety play an important part in enabling governments to protect their citizens while ensuring trade can play a critical role in maintaining supplies of safe food, said WTO chief Roberto Azevedo on Tuesday.
* British Prime Minister Theresa May has given the green light to Huawei, a Chinese telecom giant, to help build Britain's new 5G network, the Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday night.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi called on Tuesday for enabling Libya's eastern-based army to eradicate terrorism in the war-torn North African country. Sisi's remarks came during a meeting in Cairo with African heads of state, official Ahram Online news website reported.
* The over-four-year-old Yemen civil war has set the country back by 21 years and its recovery will take decades, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday, citing a UN study.
* The World Health Organization (WHO) has counted 264 civilians and combatants killed in nearly three weeks of fighting on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday.
* Spokesman of Libya's eastern-based army on Tuesday said the army's air force targeted a military camp of the UN-backed government's forces in the west of the capital Tripoli, as both sides continue fighting.
* A multinational team of climbers have reached the top of Mt. Annapurna, the 8,091-meter peak, recording the first successful summit to the mountain above 8,000 meters from the sea level in this spring season, Nepal's Department of Tourism said.