* U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that his upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska will be a "feel-out meeting."
* Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto on Monday reiterated Hungary's position that the Russia-Ukraine conflict should be resolved through diplomacy rather than military confrontation.
* Any peace deal must respect international law and cannot be imposed without Kiev's consent, leaders of the European Union (EU) said Tuesday, ahead of a meeting between U.S. and Russian presidents.
* Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday, underscoring that any decision on the future of Ukraine must be made by Ukrainians.
* Another Thai soldier was injured in a landmine explosion on Tuesday morning during a patrol mission along the Thai-Cambodian border, the Thai Army said.
* Azerbaijan's foreign ministry on Monday published a peace agreement inked by the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia in Washington on Friday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the killing of six Palestinian journalists in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN chief, on Monday.
* More than 80,000 Bangladesh Army personnel will be deployed in Bangladesh to assist the civil administration in ensuring security during the country's general election slated for February next year, an adviser said here Monday.
* Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday her government would "never" compromise on the country's sovereignty and independence and allow U.S. troops on Mexican soil.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said at a White House press conference Monday that he is deploying the National Guard to assist in restoring law and order and public safety in Washington, D.C.
* Ukraine's new round of drone attacks hit a helium production plant in Russia's Orenburg area, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Tuesday.
* Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said Tuesday that it foiled a terror attack targeting a high-ranking defense ministry official in the Moscow region.
* Agriculture ministers of China, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan held their fourth trilateral meeting in the RoK's western port city of Incheon on Monday.
* China's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday announced preliminary rulings on its anti-dumping investigations into halogenated butyl rubber from Canada, Japan and India.
* Australian Prime Minister (PM) Anthony Albanese has accused Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu of being "in denial" about the suffering of civilians in Gaza.
* The Philippines has imposed a temporary ban on the importation of live cattle and buffalo, as well as their products and by-products, from France and Italy following confirmed outbreaks of Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), the country's Department of Agriculture (DA) said Monday.
* Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources announced Monday that the country's investment realization in the energy and mineral resources sector rose to 13.9 billion USD in the first half of 2025, the highest in the last five years.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that the government prioritizes welfare, well-being and equal rights of all minorities in the South Asian country.
* Malaysia is examining the role of nuclear energy as a potential option for clean, stable and competitive electricity within the nation's future energy mix, Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof said on Monday.
* Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry on Tuesday raised its forecast for the city-state's 2025 gross domestic product (GDP) growth to between 1.5 percent and 2.5 percent, up from a previous range of 0.0 percent to 2.0 percent, citing a stronger-than-expected economic performance in the first half of the year.
* Economists have foreseen Malaysia's labor market will remain resilient amid external headwinds after the country's labor market continued to improve in the first half.
* Cambodia earned 266 million USD in revenue from exports of natural rubber latex in the first seven months of 2025, down 1 percent year-on-year, said an official report on Tuesday.
* Net foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Philippines rose by 21.3 percent year-on-year in May to 586 million USD, the Philippine central bank said on Monday.
* Myanmar attracted over 118 million USD in foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first four months (April-July) of the 2025-26 fiscal year, the state-owned Myanmar Radio and Television (MRTV) reported on Monday.
* UN humanitarians on Monday demanded urgent action as Gaza's health authorities reported that more than 100 children have died from malnutrition since the war began in October 2023.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of running a "network of massacres" and seeking to prolong his political survival at the cost of further bloodshed in the region.
* A senior official from the UN nuclear watchdog held talks in Tehran on Monday, marking the first high-level visit since Iran suspended its cooperation with the agency in June, state media reported.
* Iran is ready to accept certain limitations on its nuclear program in return for the removal of sanctions, but deems it "nonnegotiable" to end its uranium enrichment entirely, a senior Iranian diplomat said recently.
* Iraq and Iran signed here on Monday a joint security agreement on security coordination along the shared borders between the two countries.
* The Israeli army is building a new military post in southern Lebanon, which could bring the total number of positions it holds in the border area to six, according to Lebanese security sources and eyewitnesses.
* South Sudan peace monitors on Monday called for concerted efforts among all the country's stakeholders to help shore up the peace deal.
* All hiking trails on Mount Rinjani in Lombok Island, Indonesia's West Nusa Tenggara province, have reopened on Monday with upgraded safety measures and management systems, following a 10-day closure prompted by a fatal climbing accident and another incident that injured a foreign climber, according to the Mount Rinjani National Park (TNGR) Office.
* China has issued a trial set of regulations for managing infectious disease outbreak early warnings, aiming to standardize and guide related work, guard against public health risks, and protect people's lives and health.
* The British Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the Met Office on Monday issued an amber heat-health alert (HHA) for five regions of England, effective from Tuesday, as hot weather is expected to grip much of the country this week.
