South Asia
Bhutan gets ready for only the second set of parliamentary elections in its history.
Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (i.e., the Pakistani Taliban) confirms death of second-in-command Wailur Rehman and suspends pending peace talks with the incoming Sharif government.
Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf will stay in Pakistan to face his various charges.
East Asia
One out of every four elderly Chinese live under the poverty line.
Now the Philippine economy is overpowering everyone in Asia, including China.
North America
Two more staffers of Toronto mayor Rob Ford have resigned.
Latin America / Caribbean
Thoughts on U.S.-Caribbean relations.
Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles goes to Colombia (pictured above with Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos).
U.S. president Barack Obama will host a state dinner for Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff this October.
Argentina gets a cabinet reshuffle.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Both houses of Nigeria’s parliament have now passed a bill criminalizing same-sex marriage.
The International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor entertains repatriating the case against Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta to Kenyan courts.
Is Senegal becoming more susceptible to Islamic extremism?
Guinea’s election campaign kicks off in advance of June 30 voting.
Considering the end of the 27-year regime of Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni.
Jeune Afrique interviews Rwandan president Paul Kagame. [French]
Western Europe
Spain’s two main parties agree a broad anti-austerity pact before next month’s European Commission meeting.
French president François Hollande and German chancellor Angela Merkel finally agree on something — the Eurogroup needs a full-time boss.
Belfast residents and Northern Irish survivors of the 1972 shooting are not fun of London’s new ‘Bloody Sundae’ cocktail.
Economists argue that Alex Salmond’s vision of Scottish independence isn’t quite so independent.
Iceland’s new government puts EU accession negotiations on hold.
Central and Eastern Europe
Poland’s economy, one of Europe’s few bright spots, slows significantly.
Serbian prime minister Ivica Dačić hopes for confirmation of EU accession talks by June.
Cyprus’s economy will contract by nearly 9% this year.
Russia and Former Soviet Union
As the European Union moves toward lifting its ban on providing weapons to the Syrian opposition, Russia considers loosening restrictions on weapons to the Assad administration.
Ukraine’s constitutional court postpones Kyiv’s municipal elections through at least 2015.
Moldova gets a new coalition government.
Middle East and North Africa
The Wilson Center’s invaluable May 30 Iran election update.