Tomorrow , 2 June, the NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg will travel to Tirana. In the Albanian capital he will have meetings with the country’s President Ilir Meta, the Prime Minister Edi Rama and the Minister of Defence, Olta Xhacka.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday started from Germany his four-nation European tour, in which he will also visit Switzerland and the Netherlands before joining US President Donald Trump on his state visit to Britain.

Meeting with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on Thursday, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his French colleague Jean-Yves Le Drian called for the resumption of stalled Ukraine peace talks, news wires reported.

Serbia ordered its security forces on full alert on Tuesday after police in neighbouring Kosovo mounted an anti-smuggling operation in a northern region of the country populated mainly by Serbs. According to Serbia's state TV Kosovo's special police "burst into" northern Kosovo and made several arrests, but it was only a cover up for actions aimed at intimidating Serbs in Kosovo.

A 57-year old man has attacked a group of people, including more than a dozen schoolgirls, at a bus stop in Kawasaki City, Japan, before fatally injuring himself. The attack took place on Tuesday morning near Noborito station which is around 30km from the capital city, Tokyo. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on Sunday on what he termed a “final effort” to break a deadlock on forming a governing coalition ahead of a Wednesday deadline for a deal. In a video published on Twitter on Sunday, he said he had invited all of his negotiating partners to meet him in “a final attempt to form a right-wing government” and avoid “an unnecessary election”.

President Donald Trump is sending an additional 1,500 US troops to the Middle East as part of a "mostly protective" effort to deter Iranian threats, he said. Many of the new forces will be engineers to support Patriot missile batteries and reconnaissance aircraft that are being newly deployed, a US official and a source familiar with the plan tells CNN.

At the invitation of the Republic of North Macedonia authorities, the North Atlantic Council (NAC), chaired by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, will visit Skopje on 2 and 3 June, the Alliance Press Office announced.

The EU Civil Protection Mechanism has been activated yesterday for tackling forest fires, following a request for assistance from the Israeli authorities made previous night. In an immediate response, the European Union has already helped mobilise four firefighting planes, two from Italy and two from Cyprus are dispatched swiftly to the affected areas.

The US Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information.