* The Indian government Friday said it has constituted a high-level committee to monitor the situation along its border with Bangladesh in the wake of the ongoing restive situation in the neighboring country.
* King Charles has called for mutual respect and understanding after racist riots targeting Muslims and migrants in Britain, a Buckingham Palace spokesman said on Friday, marking the first intervention by the monarch since the unrest began last week.
* Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday night urged Ukraine and Russia to "exercise maximum restraint" to ensure nuclear safety in Russia's Kursk region, home to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).
* Russia notified the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday that suspected fragments of downed missiles were discovered near the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (Kursk NPP) following a Ukrainian attack in the Kursk region.
* The National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) of Russia on Saturday initiated a counterterrorism operation (CTO) regime across the Belgorod, Bryansk, and Kursk regions in response to recent security threats.
* Belarus sent more troops to reinforce its border with Ukraine on Saturday, saying Ukrainian drones had violated its airspace in the course of Kyiv's military incursion into Russia's Kursk region.
* Egypt said on Saturday Israel's "deliberate killing" of unarmed Palestinians shows that it lacks a political will to end the war in Gaza.
* Saudi Arabia welcomed the U.S., Egypt and Qatar inviting Israel and Hamas to resume Gaza ceasefire negotiations on Aug. 15, the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
* French President Emmanuel Macron has reaffirmed France's support for a ceasefire in Gaza aimed at freeing all hostages, protecting Gazans, and delivering large-scale humanitarian aid, the Elysee Palace said on Friday.
* U.S. forces across Syria have been placed on high alert following a midnight attack by Iranian-backed militias on one of its bases in the northeastern province of Hasakah, a war monitor reported on Saturday.
* Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib urged Western countries on Friday to pressure Israel to stop its aggression and reduce the escalation in Lebanon, according to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants.
* At least 39,790 Palestinians have been killed and 92,002 have been injured in Israel's military offensive in Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
* The U.S.-British coalition launched three air strikes late Thursday on the Ras Issa area in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported early Friday.
* Monthly inflation in Venezuela slowed to 0.7% in July, the central bank said on Friday, down from 1% in June. Inflation in the year through July hit 9.7%, according to data published by the monetary authority.
* Cambodia's foreign trade volume hit 31.18 billion USD in the first seven months of 2024, up 15 percent from 27.1 billion dollars over the same period last year, said an official report released on Saturday.
* Myanmar exported 510,911 tons of rice and broken rice in the first four months of the current fiscal year 2024-25, earning 256 million USD, according to the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) on Saturday.
* Italian exports decreased by 6.1 percent in value in June, compared to the same period last year, according to data released on Friday.
* The number of unemployed in Malaysia in June declined 0.1 percent to 565,300 persons from May, with a 3.3 percent unemployment rate, official data showed Friday.
* Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product (GDP) for January to July 2024 increased by 8.7 percent year-on-year and amounted to about 8 billion USD, the country's National Statistics Committee reported Friday.
* The Libyan Coast Guard announced on Friday the rescue of 124 migrants off the western Libyan coast.
* Ocean temperatures in and around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have hit their warmest level in over 400 years and pose an existential threat to the iconic reef, researchers say.
* The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday directed all hospitals in the capital to "activate their leptospirosis surge capacity plan" amid rising cases following the massive July 24 flooding.
* The Baoji-Chengdu Railway, a key railway line in western China, resumed traffic on Saturday after 25 days of disruption due to flood-triggered geological disasters.
* A landslide at a landfill in Uganda's capital Kampala has killed eight people, the city's authorities said on Saturday. The incident happened late Friday after heavy rainfall when sections of the landfill collapsed, covering some nearby houses, Ugandan media reported.
