At least four people were killed and more than 30 injured during protests that erupted across Kenya on Monday, as a crippling public transport strike fueled anger over a sharp rise in fuel prices linked to the Iran war and disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz.
Two police officers died in Pakistan's northwestern Bajaur tribal district while protecting health workers who were administering the polio vaccine to children on Monday, a security official said. The two separate attacks took place in Bajaur, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.
Russia may celebrate its "no-limits" partnership with China — a phrase coined when President Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping met just before the Ukraine war — yet those relations are increasingly one-sided.
The United States and Nigeria conducted fresh strikes on Sunday against so-called Islamic State jihadists in northeast Nigeria's Borno State, the US military said Monday. At least 20 jihadists were killed in the weekend strikes, according to the Nigerian military.
Ostensibly, Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to China this week to meet with his counterpart, Xi Jinping, is taking place to mark the 25th anniversary of the 2001 Sino‑Russian Treaty of Good‑Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation.
North Korea's Naegohyang Women's FC is due to play a South Korean women's team in Suwon on May 20 — the first time Pyongyang has permitted its athletes to travel to the South in more than seven years.
Pakistan has delivered a revised peace proposal from Iran to the US, sources in Islamabad told reporters on Monday. According to Reuters news agency, both sides were warned that they "don't have much time" to narrow their differences before the situation escalates again.
The Italian government confirmed on Monday that the bodies of four Italian divers were located in an underwater cave in the Maldives.