* Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday unveiled several changes to his cabinet and the leadership at Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), Venezuela's state-owned oil company.
* Guatemala's supreme electoral tribunal on Monday declared Bernardo Arevalo the winner of the country’s presidential elections but his presidency was plunged into uncertainty even before it had officially begun after another government body suspended his Seed Movement party.
* Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone on Monday congratulated Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on his appointment by telephone, and the two leaders held talks on further cementing Lao-Thai ties and cooperation.
* Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Tuesday that the government has reserved 100 million USD for boosting the country's agricultural sector.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held phone talks Monday on the outcomes of the recently held BRICS Summit and bilateral cooperation.
* International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva will visit China from Aug. 30 to Sept. 3 to engage in bilateral discussions with the country's senior leadership team, an IMF spokesperson said on Tuesday.
* British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will make a long-awaited trip to China on Wednesday in a sign that relations between the countries are normalising after years of tensions over many issues.
* Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday that Japan planned to keep on supporting Ukraine.
* The European Union (EU) should be ready for its next enlargement by 2030, European Council President Charles Michel said at the Bled Strategic Forum held in Bled (Slovenia) on Monday.
* Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Monday called on the international community to take necessary measures to stop Israeli violations against the Palestinians in the West Bank.
* Saudi Arabia and Poland signed on Monday an agreement to enhance cooperation in air transport services, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
* Despite the ongoing military conflict in Sudan, three UN agencies have been providing relief, ranging from cash to health care, in four separate border states, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
* Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrived in the Egyptian coastal town of El Alameinon Tuesday to meet with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, according to a military statement.
* Malaysia will allocate 2 billion ringgit (430 million USD) as a seed fund National Energy Transition Facility to enable catalytic blended finance, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced on Tuesday.
* The Swedish economy shrank in the second quarter, primarily due to slower exports and decreased trade inventories, though the contraction was smaller than expected, data from the Statistics Office showed on Tuesday.
* Cyprus police arrested 21 people late Monday after violent clashes involving immigrants and residents of a community in the west of the island which has a large population of asylum-seekers.
* A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off South Kalimantan province in central Indonesia early Tuesday, but did not trigger a tsunami, the country's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency said.
* Train services between France and Italy were temporarily halted on Monday after a huge rockslide that blocked access to a series of tunnels. In the mountainous regions of Italy, landslides forced the evacuation of dozens of people.
* Tropical storm Idalia has strengthened into a hurricane over southeastern Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory on Tuesday.
* Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday that sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific were rising and an El Nino weather event, which typically brings hotter, drier weather, would likely develop between September and November.
* Flooding affected more than 6,000 people in July in Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people, destroying farmlands and severely impacting livelihoods, said a report released Monday by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Afghanistan.
