* French President Emmanuel Macron ruled out naming a prime minister from the leftist New Popular Front alliance and will instead start a new round of consultations on Tuesday with parties to try to form a new government, Macron's office said.
* The Great Wall-2024 International Forum on Counter-terrorism kicked off in Beijing on Tuesday. Hosted by China's armed police force, the four-day event has brought together over 170 delegates from more than 50 similar foreign armed forces, as well as over 150 Chinese representatives.
* Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thailand's new prime minister, stated on Monday that Thailand and China share a "close friendship" and she is committed to further strengthening bilateral ties.
* Ukraine shot down five missiles and 60 drones launched by Russia during an overnight attack, the Ukrainian air force said on Monday.
* International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi has arrived on a visit to Russia's Kursk nuclear power plant near the town of Kurchatov, the TASS state news agency reported on Tuesday.
* Canada, following the lead of the United States and European Union, said on Monday it would impose a 100% tariff on imports of Chinese electric vehicles and announced a 25% tariff on imported steel and aluminum from China.
* Sri Lanka's navy arrested eight Indian fishermen for poaching in the country's territorial waters on Monday, the navy said in a statement on Tuesday.
* At least 73 people were killed in Pakistan's province of Balochistan when separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways and security forces launched retaliatory operations, officials said on Monday.
* Australia said on Tuesday it would limit the enrolment number of international students at 270,000 for 2025, as the government looks to rein in record migration that has contributed to a spike in home rental prices.
* Negotiations in Cairo to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza and a hostage deal are still pressing ahead, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, adding that the discussions will continue on the working-group level for the next few days to iron out specific issues.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday called on Muslim states to take joint actions to force Israel to stop its "crimes and genocide" in Gaza.
* The Israeli Defense Ministry said on Monday that since the beginning of its military operations in Gaza, the country has received more than 50,000 tons of military equipment and ammunition.
* An international oil spill response exercise started in the Baltic Sea on Monday, according to Lithuanian Armed Forces. Seven countries including Finland, Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Sweden participated in the exercise to enhance ability to jointly respond to major marine pollution incidents.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Monday exchanged views on bilateral ties and the situation in Gaza.
* Paris public prosecutor on Monday announced the charges on which the Telegram founder Pavel Durov was arrested in Paris a day before, in a global first for a messaging service.
* Ongoing conflict, clan violence, and climatic shocks, mainly flooding, have displaced 319,014 people in Somalia in the first seven months of 2024, a global charity said on Monday.
* Sea level rises in the Pacific Ocean are outstripping the global average, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report showed on Tuesday, imperiling low-lying island states.
* Indonesia has recorded 88 cases of monkeypox (mpox) since it was first detected in August 2022, according to Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin on Monday.
* In recent weeks, U.S. authorities have sounded the alarm over the resurgence of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a rare but deadly mosquito-borne virus, prompting public health warnings and preventative measures to curb its spread.
* South Korea's rice paddy area hit a record low this year amid a continued fall in domestic consumption, statistical office data showed Tuesday.
* The German economy shrank by 0.1% in the second quarter of 2024 compared with the previous three-month period, the statistics office reported on Tuesday, confirming preliminary data.
* Malaysia's air passenger traffic grew 14.3 percent year on year and 7.7 percent month on month to 8.8 million in July, official data showed Monday.
* Thailand's employment dropped 0.4 percent in the second quarter of 2024 from a year earlier, accelerating from a 0.1 percent dip in the previous quarter due to a decline in agricultural jobs, the country's economic planning agency said on Monday.
* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved a disbursement of 820 million USD to Egypt as part of an 8 billion-dollar loan program.
* The International Monetary Fund reached a staff-level agreement for Liberia on a new 40-month extended credit facility arrangement for $209 million, the IMF said in a statement on Monday.
* The economic loss caused by the wildfires in Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state reached up to 1 billion reals (182 million USD) within just three days, regional governor Tarcisio de Freitas said on Monday.
* Ghana on Monday temporarily banned the export of grains including maize, rice and soybean to ensure domestic supply as the West African nation grapples with near-drought conditions that have disrupted crop production, the agriculture ministry said on Monday.
* Surging waters have burst through a dam, wiped out at least 20 villages and left at least 30 people dead but probably many more in eastern Sudan, the United Nations said on Monday, devastating a region already reeling from months of civil war.
* The death toll from devastating floods caused by relentless monsoon rain and overflowing rivers in Bangladesh has risen to 23, with around 1.24 million families stranded across 11 districts, officials said on Monday.
* All junior schools across India's western state of Gujarat will remain shut on Tuesday amid a red alert for heavy to extremely heavy rains issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday.
* A remote region in northwestern Australia set a new all-time national record for the highest winter temperature on Monday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said on Tuesday.
* The Panama Canal expects to be ready to combat a possible new drought, which could hit the world's second-largest waterway within four years, by accommodating larger vessels, securing dedicated passage for some ships and expanding its water reservoirs' capacity, its chief, Ricaurte Vasquez, said on Monday.
