* Incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema has won re-election in Zambia's presidential poll, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) announced early Tuesday.
* Republic of Korea (RoK)'s unification ministry said Tuesday that if the talks between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States resumes, it is expected to contribute to peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and to a shift toward inter-Korean reconciliation and cooperation.
* Japan and Australia agreed in Canberra on Tuesday to advance arrangements for the Japan Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to use missile test sites in Australia, Kyodo News reported.
* France on Tuesday promulgated an updated military programming law for 2024-2030 to accelerate the country's rearmament efforts.
* Moscow came under the largest Ukrainian drone attack in two years, with 620 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) targeting the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said Tuesday.
* Russian air defense systems shot down 316 Ukrainian drones over the course of Monday, the Defense Ministry said.
* Paraguay's decision to allow a temporary U.S. military presence in the country is concerning, according to Celso Amorim, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's chief foreign policy advisor.
* Thailand is set to extend automated passport gates to travelers with 31 more nationalities at Suvarnabhumi Airport by the end of August as part of measures to ease congestion at the country's main international gateway, a government spokesperson said on Monday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls on Iran and the United States to resume negotiations toward a durable settlement to the conflict, his spokesman said Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Tehran wants to reach an agreement with Washington but is unwilling to accept the kind of deal he considers necessary, as a 60-day negotiating period between the two sides came to an end.
* Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) on Monday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that there is a backchannel for talks between Washington and the IRGC.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and visiting U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner agreed on Monday to establish two working groups to advance the demilitarization of Gaza and address infrastructure and public health needs in the war-devastated enclave, according to Netanyahu's office.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Tuesday it had launched a fresh drone attack on a Saudi Aramco oil refinery in the southwestern Saudi region of Jazan.
* Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein held a phone conversation on Monday with his Iranian counterpart, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, to discuss a drone attack that targeted the private office of Masrour Barzani, prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said.
* Two drones targeted the private office of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and a local security official's residence early Monday, authorities said.
* Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday called for extending the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon, where Israel strikes have continued.
* China's domestic oil and gas supply is expected to reach 440 million tonnes of oil equivalent by 2030 under a new five-year plan for the sector, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Monday.
* Bangladesh's net foreign direct investment (FDI) in the fiscal year (July 2025-June 2026) fell 15.02 percent to 1.47 billion USD, according to the recently published central bank data.
* Canada's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 3 percent year over year in July, following a 2.8 percent gain in June, Statistics Canada said Monday.
* Thailand's banking sector remained sound with capital, loan-loss provisions, and liquidity at high levels in the second quarter of 2026, though uneven economic recovery and geopolitical uncertainty continued to weigh on debt-servicing ability, the central bank said on Tuesday.
* The Department of Meteorology and Hydrology under the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Environment issued a heavy rainfall warning, forecasting thunderstorms and very heavy rainfall across eight provinces nationwide from Aug. 18 to 21.
* Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the two largest reservoirs of the United States on the Colorado River, have both fallen to record-low levels since they were filled, according to federal data. U.S. water officials and experts said the declines are increasing risks to water supplies, agriculture and hydropower across the Southwest.
* Sri Lanka could face pressure on electricity generation in March and April 2027 due to prevailing El Niño conditions, Energy Minister Anura Karunathilaka said on Monday.
* The Venezuelan government on Monday updated the official toll from the June 24 twin earthquakes, reporting that the death toll had risen to 6,438, up 137 from the previous week.
* The death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province has risen to 70, with 132 others injured, authorities said Tuesday.
* A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Nias Island in Indonesia's North Sumatra province on Tuesday, according to the country's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency. No casualties or property damage have been reported so far.
* Six of Croatia's eight main weather stations have set new records this year for the longest uninterrupted heat wave with a health impact, the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ) said Monday.
* Three people were killed after a private helicopter crashed on the Greek island of Sifnos on Monday, according to Greek national broadcaster ERT.
* The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) said Monday that a West Nile virus (WNV) infection has been confirmed in a blood donor in the Netherlands, marking the country's first confirmed locally acquired human case since 2020.
