The Indonesian parliament passed revisions to the country’s national police law on Tuesday that allow serving police officers to accept posts in the civilian government.

Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that ​they immediately “stop ‘shooting'”, though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had a “positive” conversation with ​U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and praised ‌what he called their readiness to work on a settlement of the Ukraine war in the coming weeks.

U.S. President Donald Trump ​told Axios in ‌an interview published on Monday ​that he ​warned Israeli Prime ⁠Minister Benjamin ​Netanyahu that he ​might find himself fighting alone if ​he went ​back to war with ‌Iran.

Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday said confirmed Ebola deaths had climbed to 101 and that ​the presence of armed groups was continuing to hinder the ‌response in the hardest-hit province.

Armed bandits in northwest Nigeria abducted dozens of villagers whom they invited to a meeting about potential peace ​negotiations, authorities and residents said on Monday, highlighting ‌the region’s worsening security.

Donald Trump is facing widening opposition within his own party as Republican lawmakers ​in Congress, long reluctant to defy him, are showing a greater willingness to break ranks with the U.S. president.

Peru’s ​conservative presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori had an early narrow lead over her leftist rival in a runoff election.

The leaders of Britain, Germany and France said on ‌Sunday they supported a proposal for talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian President Vladimir Putin to try to secure a ceasefire, and Europe would play a role.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory in a parliamentary ​election after results from just over one-fifth of polling sites showed ‌his party with around 54% of the vote.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said it was China’s ​unwavering policy to upgrade ties with North Korea.

Officials issued tsunami warnings after a strong magnitude ‌7.8 earthquake struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, with no immediate reports of deaths or major damage.