* United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for bold and coordinated responses to slove the ongoing global food crisis.
* Malaysia reaffirmed its commitment to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development following the recently concluded UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in New York.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Iran for a summit with his Iranian and Turkish counterparts on Syrian conflict, Iranian state TV said on Tuesday.
* The new cabinet of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was sworn in on Monday, re-establishing political stability, but she warned of tough times ahead for the economy as energy costs soar and inflation rages in the fall-out from the war in Ukraine.
* Sri Lanka's acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe, parliamentarian of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Dullas Alahapperuma, and National People's Power (NPP) leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake were nominated for the post of president in parliament on Tuesday. Members of parliament will meet on Wednesday morning and elect a new president for Sri Lanka.
* Lawmakers in the House of Commons, the lower house of the British parliament, backed outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government in a confidence vote on Monday night. The government won the vote by 349 to 238, with the Conservative Party MPs rallied behind Johnson.
* India is willing to make more investments in neighbouring Sri Lanka after supporting it with $3.8 billion this year, New Delhi's envoy in Colombo told the Indian Express newspaper.
* Albania and North Macedonia began membership talks with the European Union on Tuesday, overcoming a series of obstacles thrown up by EU governments despite an original promise to begin negotiations in mid-2018.
* Delegations of Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye and the United Nations will most likely meet this week for a new round of talks on Ukrainian grain exports, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Monday.
* The foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) member states on Monday agreed to grant Ukraine an additional 500 million euros (507.7 million USD) in EU military aid.
* The Indonesian authorities are set to block social media applications and online sites including Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp in several days if they fail to register with the country's Ministry of Communications and Informatics.
* A court in Moscow ruled on Monday to fine Google LLC 21.077 billion rubles (about 369 million USD) for repeated failure to delete content prohibited in Russia.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 193 migrants were returned to Libya after being rescued off the coast last week.
* Asian shares slipped on Tuesday, following overnight declines on Wall Street, and the dollar hovered below last week's peak, but traders' main focus was approaching central bank meetings and the early stages of the US earnings season.
* US average retail gasoline price fell to $4.495 a gallon on Tuesday from $4.521 a day earlier, data from the American Automobile Association (AAA) showed. The average price of US retail gasoline fell below $4.50 a gallon for the first time in nine weeks.
* US home builder sentiment plummeted in July to its lowest level since the early months of the pandemic, as high inflation and the steepest borrowing costs in more than a decade brought customer traffic to a near standstill.
* UK grocery inflation hit 9.9% in the four weeks to July 10, adding 454 pounds ($543.7) to Britons' annual bills amid a worsening cost of living crisis, industry data showed on Tuesday.
* Gas supplies from Algeria to Italy will increase in the coming years, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Monday, following his meeting with Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in Algiers.
* Poland plans to offer households a one-off payment of 3,000 zlotys ($635) to help cover the rising cost of coal, according to a draft bill published late on Monday, as the country faces surging energy prices as a result of the war in Ukraine.
* The European Union is in talks with manufacturers to buy firefighting planes to battle the increased risk of severe wildfires like those raging in Southern Europe, the bloc's head of crisis management told Reuters.
* Britain was bracing for temperatures to hit 40C for the first time on Tuesday after it recorded its warmest night on record, forcing train services to stop, some schools to close and zoos to feed animals with large ice lollies.
* Spain's health ministry said on Monday that 510 people died from heat-related causes in the first week of a heatwave when the mercury reached 45 degrees Celcius in some parts of the country.
* The temperature reached 33 degrees Celsius in Dublin on Monday afternoon, the highest on record in the city and the second highest in Ireland in 135 years, the National Meteorological Service (Met Eireann) said.
* Damage caused by extreme weather events has cost Germany 145 billion euros (146.5 billion USD) since 2000, according to a study published by the Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) on Monday.
* Fifteen departments in western France remain under "extreme heat" warning, with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celsius, French daily news channel BFMTV reported on Monday. The situation is no better in the southwestern areas, where temperatures reached a new record of 41.6 degrees on Monday, BFMTV said.
* Almost half of the European Union's (EU) territory and the United Kingdom (UK) are at risk of drought in July, according to a report published on Monday by the European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRS).
