Aramco boss Amin Nasser went against his banking advisers' guidance to go straight to New York for a roadshow where the state oil giant's shares were on sale, and instead got on a plane to London first.
When French President Emmanuel Macron told his young prime minister of his decision to call a snap election just hours before announcing it on television, Gabriel Attal tried to dissuade his boss, asking him to accept his resignation instead, two sources told Reuters.
Iraqi security forces have killed a senior member of the Islamic State group in Syria who was responsible for carrying out attacks against Iraqi government forces, the Iraqi National Security Service said on Tuesday.
Moscow and Tehran are continuing their work on a comprehensive bilateral cooperation agreement, although the schedule of specific events may shift, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, adding Russia intended to develop ties with Iran.
Parts of Sudan are in famine, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, adding that the extent of extreme hunger remained unclear nearly 14 months into a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Tunisian border guards have rounded up migrants and passed them to counterparts in Libya where they have faced forced labour, extortion, torture and killing, according to a confidential U.N. human rights briefing seen by Reuters.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Novgorod, Russia. The discussions covered a range of critical international issues, including the situation in Ukraine, Gaza, and Libya.
On Tuesday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati met with his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sanchez and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, in Jordan on the sidelines of a conference focused on aid to Gaza.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city of al-Fashir which has become a new front between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday that at least 49 migrants had died and 140 others remained missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, revising higher an earlier toll from local officials.
Intel has suspended plans to expand a semiconductor factory in Israel, a project that was expected to attract an additional investment of $15 billion. The decision comes amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza, although Intel has not explicitly linked the halt to the war.
-France's opposition left-wing parties pledged to work together and nominate joint candidates in snap parliament elections later this month, to challenge the government and Marine Le Pen's far right, but had not yet struck a deal by Tuesday morning.
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