* Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday morning reshuffled his cabinet two months before leaving the presidential office. Widodo has chosen Supratman Andi Agtas, a politician from the Gerindra Party, as minister of law and human rights, replacing Yasonna Laoly who had held the position for 10 years.
* Bart De Wever, leader of the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) party, met with Belgium's King Philippe on Monday to review his progress in forming a new federal government, with their next meeting set for Thursday evening, according to a statement from the Royal Palace.
* Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday refused to appoint the caretaker government proposed by the Prime Minister nominee Goritsa Grancharova-Kozhareva, and withdrew her nomination.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday demanded an end to attacks on humanitarians and all civilians, appealing for "an end to impunity, so that perpetrators face justice."
* An executive meeting of the State Council, presided over by Premier Li Qiang on Monday, reviewed and approved four documents, discussed policy measures to support the high-quality development of innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and approved five nuclear power projects.
* Cambodia on Monday launched a mobile payment system to enable tourists to scan and pay at 3.3 million retail shops across the Southeast Asian country.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin has asserted that there cannot be any talks with Ukraine after its attack on Russia's border Kursk region, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
* The Ukrainian army has taken control of 92 settlements in western Russia's Kursk region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.
* More than 121,000 civilians have been safely removed from nine border districts in the Kursk region, said Artyom Sharov, deputy spokesperson for the Emergencies Ministry, on Monday.
* President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia's commitment to supporting the normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia during a state visit to Baku on Monday.
* Belarus said on Monday it had sent aircraft, air defence forces and armoury to its border with Ukraine, a day after President Alexander Lukashenko said he had deployed nearly a third of his country's armed forces to the region.
* Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim began a three-day official visit to India on Monday, according to a foreign ministry statement.
* Australia and Indonesia signed a treaty-level defence cooperation agreement, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday.
* The central banks of Cambodia and the Philippines have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the enhancement of bilateral cooperation, said a joint news release issued on Tuesday.
* The Philippines' Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Tuesday that the country has agreed to a request by the United States to temporarily host a U.S. immigrant visa processing center for "a limited number" of Afghan nationals.
* Israel has accepted a new proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
* Egypt has reiterated its demand for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt-Gaza borders, Egypt's Al-Qahera News TV channel reported Monday, citing a high-ranking security source.
* Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 40,173 Palestinians and wounded 92,857 since Oct. 7, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Tuesday.
* Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday that his country's right to respond to the assassination of Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh and the pursuit of a ceasefire in Gaza were two separate issues.
* Malaysia's stronger-than-expected growth in the second quarter has led the Fitch research house to revise up its 2024 growth forecast for the Southeast Asian country to 4.7 percent from 4.4 percent.
* The Philippines' overall balance of payments (BOP) posted a surplus of 62 million USD in July 2024, a reversal from the BOP deficit of 53 million dollars recorded in July 2023, the country's central bank said Monday.
* Croatia's tourism revenues will increase 4 percent to reach a new record of 15.2 billion euros (16.82 billion USD) this year, the local daily Jutarnji List said in a report on Monday.
* Emergent BioSolutions EBS.N said on Monday it would donate 50,000 doses of its smallpox vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other impacted countries of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to address the current mpox outbreak.
* The Dutch public health authority, RIVM, said on Monday that healthcare providers are on high alert for potential infections from a new variant of the mpox virus.
* Norway's health system is well-prepared to manage any potential mpox outbreak, following a recent case reported in neighboring Sweden, the Ministry of Health announced in a statement on Monday.
* Uzbekistan is taking measures to prevent the spread of mpox, local media reported on Monday, citing the country's Committee for Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health.
* The ongoing mpox outbreak has been declared a "continental emergency," according to Roger Kamba, health minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), speaking on Monday.
* Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Monday announced the reinforcement of surveillance measures in all health units across the country in response to a measles outbreak.
* A total of 629 people were killed with 266 others injured in landslides across Myanmar over the past 10 years, the state-run Myanmar Radio and Television reported on Tuesday.
* At least 215 were killed in rain-triggered accidents and floods in Pakistan so far in the monsoon season, including 20 deaths in the last 24 hours, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reported on Monday.
* Rescue teams were getting ready in Sicily to resume a search for six missing people, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, after a luxury yacht was struck by a violent storm and sank on Monday, killing one on board.
