* Thailand's Constitutional Court announced on Wednesday to temporarily suspend the premiership of Prime Minister (PM) Prayut Chan-o-cha.
* The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Tuesday said its expert mission could visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine "within the next few days if ongoing negotiations succeed."
* Iran will not allow inspections beyond what is in a 2015 nuclear deal, the country's nuclear chief said on Wednesday, as the United States prepares to respond to a proposal to revive Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers.
* The US military said it carried out air strikes on Tuesday in Syria's Deir al-Zor against facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
* Fighting between forces from Ethiopia's rebellious northern region of Tigray and central government forces has erupted around the town of Kobo, residents and the spokesman for the Tigrayan forces said on Wednesday, ending a months-long ceasefire.
* Cambodia had provided licenses to some 2,000 construction projects with a total investment of 1.2 billion USD in the first half of 2022, a senior official said on Wednesday.
* The Latin America and the Caribbean region is likely to see average economic expansion of 2.7 percent in 2022, reverting to pre-pandemic sluggish growth amid strong external and domestic macroeconomic restrictions, the Santiago-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said on Tuesday.
* The New Zealand government said on Wednesday it had signed a indigenous collaboration arrangement with Canada to improve outcomes for indigenous peoples and enhance relationships between indigenous people in the two countries.
* Estonia's economy is forecast to grow by 1 percent this year and 0.5 percent in 2023, the country's Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.
* Romania has reaped 9 million tonnes of wheat this year, the agriculture ministry said, as weather and higher production costs caused crops to fall by roughly a fifth from last year.
* A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will meet Sri Lanka's president on Wednesday for talks to finalise a bailout package, including restructuring debt of about $29 billion, amid the nation's worst financial crisis in more than seven decades.
* China's national observatory on Wednesday renewed an orange alert for drought as heatwaves continued in many regions.
* Germany's grain harvest in 2022 increased by almost 2 percent year-on-year to around 43 million tons, despite the ongoing drought, according to provisional figures published by the German Farmers' Association (DBV) on Tuesday.
* The Republic of Korea logged the lowest second-quarter childbirth, with deaths hitting the second-highest quarterly figure on the continued COVID-19 pandemic, statistical office data showed Wednesday.
* The Bank of Industry(BoI) in Nigeria Tuesday signed a 100 million-euro (99.5 million USD) credit agreement with the French Development Agency (AFD) to finance projects to tackle climate change.
* Indian government has issued an advisory to states on hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD), commonly known as tomato flu, officials said Wednesday.
* China reported 1,744 new COVID-19 infections on Aug. 23, of which 413 were symptomatic and 1,331 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday.
* India's daily COVID-19 caseload again breached the 10,000-mark, two days after remaining below it, officials said on Wednesday.
* Japan will waive pre-departure COVID-19 tests for vaccinated travellers to the country, but daily caps on entrants will remain in place, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said on Wednesday.
* Singapore will do away with requirements to wear masks indoors starting Aug. 29, as the country sees its COVID-19 situation stabilise further, the health minister said on Wednesday.
* The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 accounted for 4.3% and 88.9% of the total COVID-19 cases in the United States, as of the week ended Aug. 20.
* The COVID-19 pandemic has set back the fight against poverty in Asia and the Pacific by at least two years, and many in the region will likely find it harder than before to escape poverty, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on Wednesday.
* Pfizer Inc and BioNTech's vaccine was 73.2% effective in preventing COVID-19 among children aged 6 months through 4 years, new data from the companies showed on Tuesday, two months after the US rollout of the shots began for that age group.
