* Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong has called for efforts to strengthen agricultural disaster relief and mitigation as well as epidemic prevention.
* The world is witnessing the steady rise of a new multipolar world order, said Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday during the 11th Moscow Conference on International Security.
* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Tuesday that this week's summit with the leaders of the United States and Japan will set a new milestone in trilateral cooperation in the face of the evolving nuclear and missile threats in the Korean Peninsular.
* Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins announced on Monday that he would resign amid differences with coalition partners.
* Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and his visiting German counterpart Christian Lindner on Monday signed a joint declaration to deepen economic cooperation between the two countries, the Ukrainian government press service said.
* Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen on Monday called his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf, and expressed his "regrets and apologies" for the burning of the Islamic holy book of Quran in the Danish capital Copenhagen.
* Mali's military leader Assimi Goita said on Tuesday that he had spoken on the phone to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the situation in Niger, where a junta seized power in a coup last month.
* The Ethiopian House of People's Representatives (HoPR) on Monday ratified a six-month state of emergency rule in the northern Amhara region amid the prolonged conflicts between the military and local militiamen.
* West African army chiefs will meet in Ghana's capital Accra on Thursday and Friday to prepare for a possible military intervention to restore democratic order in Niger, a spokesperson for regional bloc ECOWAS said on Tuesday.
* The coup in Niger is "a setback that aggravates the complex development challenges in the country and in the Sahel further," German development minister Svenja Schulze said on Tuesday during a visit to West Africa.
* Millions of people are running out of food in Sudan and some are dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war that have devastated the capital Khartoum and sparked ethnically-driven attacks in Darfur, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
* Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Monday welcomed the decision of Saudi Arabia to appoint an ambassador to Palestine and a general consul in East Jerusalem.
* Leaders of Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine stressed on Monday the necessity of ending the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian lands in order to revive peace and the Palestinian cause, according to a statement issued by the Egyptian Presidency.
* Russia's Central Bank has decided to raise the key interest rate by 350 basis points to 12 percent, it said in a statement Tuesday.
* Brazil's power system operator (ONS) reported outages in three regions of the country, it said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that 16,000 megawatts had been brought down after an "incident" that was still being investigated.
* The approved foreign investments into the Philippines in the second quarter reached 59.09 billion pesos (1 billion USD), marking a year-on-year increase of 27.8 percent, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.
* Global wealth, as measured in personal holdings of assets from real estate to stocks and shares, is projected to rise 38% by 2027, driven largely by emerging markets, a study published by Credit Suisse and UBS UBSG.S showed on Tuesday.
* British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said there was "light at the end of the tunnel" for his government's plan to halve inflation, adding that progress had been made despite record wage growth reported on Tuesday which could fuel future inflation pressure.
* Sri Lanka on Tuesday lifted a ban on imports of trucks and other heavy vehicles for the first time since March 2020, according to a gazette notification.
* Credit ratings agency Fitch on Monday kept Israel's credit rating at A+ with a stable outlook.
* Nearly 900 flights in Japan were cancelled and 240,000 people were ordered to move to safety as a slow-moving typhoon crossed Japan's main island of Honshu not far from the ancient capital of Kyoto, cutting off power to tens of thousands of homes.
* The death toll from the Maui wildfires in the U.S. state of Hawaii reached 99, authorities said Monday.
* The death toll from the heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh in the past two days has reached 55, officials said Tuesday.
* Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday the El Nino weather event, associated with hotter, drier weather, was likely to hit during the southern hemisphere spring, between September and November.
* A fire at a fuel station in the southern Russian region of Dagestan late on Monday killed at least 30 people including three children, Russia's emergency services ministry said on Tuesday.
* A fire burnt through 500 hectares of land and destroyed a campsite in the south of France, with 2,000 people evacuated during the night, French regional authorities said on Tuesday.
* The northern Italian town of Bardonecchia on Monday experienced landslides forcing dozens of families from their homes and causing significant structural damage.
