* Myanmar's National Defense and Security Council (NDSC) decided on Monday to extend the state of emergency in the Southeast Asian country for another six months.
* Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday signed a decree for the country to hold elections for local authorities on October 29, his press office said in a statement.
* Ukraine launched an attack on Moscow and the Moscow region with three unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with two of them shot down and the third having crashed after being jammed by electronic warfare, said Russian authorities on Tuesday.
*Ukraine will this week start negotiations with the United States on providing security guarantees for Kiev, the Focus.ua media outlet reported on Monday, citing Ukrainian President's Office.
* France will evacuate its citizens from Niger very soon, the French foreign ministry said on Tuesday, days after a junta overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum and seized power in the west African country.
* The Swedish government said on Tuesday it would present measures to protect its citizens amid growing concerns in both Sweden and Denmark that the Koran burning crisis could lead to attacks.
* The UN Security Council on Monday strongly condemned the "heinous and cowardly" suicide terrorist attack at a political meeting in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday.
* The death toll from a suicide bombing in northwest Pakistan that targeted a hard-line religious group's political rally has risen to 56, a government official said on Tuesday.
* Saudi Arabia is giving Yemen's presidential council $1.2 billion to help the country's struggling economy, a Saudi source told Reuters on Tuesday.
* UN humanitarians said on Monday that despite the fighting in Sudan, more than 780 trucks have delivered about 35,000 tons of aid across the country since May 22.
* Cyprus and Greece welcomed the moves by the European Union (EU) and Turkey to engage in consultations for the promotion of their relations, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during an official visit to Cyprus on Monday.
* Iraq on Monday discussed with the visiting secretary-general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) the ways to strengthen bilateral relations in various fields.
* Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash announced on Monday that Iran and Syria have eliminated bilateral trade tariffs, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
* U.S. stocks extended gains on Monday as investors waited for a busy week of earnings reports from big name companies like Apple and Amazon.
* Japan's unemployment rate in June stood at 2.5 percent, the government said in a report on Tuesday. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the jobless rate slightly dropped from 2.6 percent a month earlier.
* India's gold demand in 2023 could fall 10% from a year ago to their lowest in three years, as record high prices are dampening retail purchases, the World Gold Council (WGC) said on Tuesday.
* The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on Tuesday announced its decision to keep the cash rate target steady at 4.1 percent, which marked a second pause since July.
* Brazil lowered its inflation forecast to 4.84 percent for 2023 and 3.89 percent for 2024, the Central Bank of Brazil said Monday.
* Italy's gross domestic product (GDP) slumped by 0.3 percent in the second quarter (Q2) of the year compared to the previous quarter, preliminary data from the government's statistics institute showed Monday.
* The gross domestic product (GDP) of Portugal grew 2.3 percent in the second quarter (Q2) of 2023 compared to the same period last year, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Monday.
* Flights were cancelled and tens of thousands of people were advised to evacuate their homes on Tuesday as powerful typhoon Khanun approached Japan's Okinawa island chain, threatening torrential rains and high winds through Thursday.
* Indonesia is bracing for forest fires due to the El Nino weather phenomenon, which caused long drought, and the peak is expected from August to September, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency on Monday.
* Mongolia's National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring on Monday issued a warning of intense heatwaves, torrential rains and flash floods.
* At least 17 workers were killed and three others injured Tuesday after a crane collapsed at a road construction site in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, officials said.
