* Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale faces his first no-confidence motion after Minister of Home Affairs Manasseh Maelanga filed a notice of motion on Saturday afternoon, the Solomon Star reported.
* Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Sunday to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit 2026 in Bishkek, and pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt upon the invitation of President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt.
* The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to Ankara over a series of attack on Turkish-operated vessels in the Black Sea, an anonymous source from the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday to begin the process of establishing the first U.S. Space Academy.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday issued a rare condemnation of settler violence in the West Bank, calling attacks in the Palestinian villages of Qusra and Jalud "criminal" and urging authorities to arrest those responsible.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday the peace memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Iran and the United States is in the interests of the country, West Asia and the world.
* Israel carried out an airstrike on part of the Shuhada al-Aqsa Hospital compound in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday, saying it targeted a Hamas commander who was planning attacks, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.
* South Africa has submitted a dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning Israel's non-compliance with provisional measures previously ordered by the court, according to South Africa's Department of International Relations and Cooperation.
* The African Union (AU) has condemned armed attacks carried out on Monday on a United Nations (UN) convoy in South Sudan's Jonglei State.
* China's package of assistance to Nepal is being implemented, including emergency cash assistance and humanitarian aid, with some relief supplies set to arrive in Kathmandu soon, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his phone conversation with Nepali Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal on Saturday.
* Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said that 675 bodies had been recovered from mudslide-hit areas as of 18:30 local time on Saturday, with 2,498 people still missing.
* Sixteen people have been confirmed dead and 546 others remain missing as of 6 p.m. Saturday after a mudslide struck Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region on Aug. 26, according to the regional government.
* Uzbekistan's GDP is projected to reach 300 billion USD by 2030, with cumulative foreign investment inflows expected to total 450 billion dollars over the next decade, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said Friday.
* China saw 35,000 newly established foreign-invested enterprises in the first half of 2026, up 7 percent year on year, the State Administration for Market Regulation said Saturday.
* Malaysia's approved investments rose 11.7 percent year-on-year to 218.5 billion ringgit (about 54.27 billion USD) in the first half of 2026, driven by growth in the services sector, the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA) said on Friday.
* The Port of Colombo has climbed six places to rank 20th among the world's busiest container ports, according to the latest rankings for the first half of 2026 released recently by global container shipping information platform Alphaliner.
* Close to 200,000 cruise ship passengers are expected to arrive in New Zealand this cruise season, providing a boost to regional tourism, jobs, businesses and communities, a senior official said Saturday.
* Myanmar has about 20,000 tonnes of avocados ready for export in the 2026-2027 season from November 2026 to January 2027, with high-quality produce aimed at overseas markets, the state-owned daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Saturday.
* Finland on Friday expanded a restricted zone for African swine fever (ASF) in the country's southeast after the disease was detected in a wild boar about 40 km west of the previous zone boundary, the Finnish Food Authority said.
* Severe storms and hail killed at least two people and damaged more than 1,600 homes in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the state Civil Defense reported Saturday.
* A severe storm accompanied by hail and strong winds hit Cremona in northern Italy on Friday, causing extensive damage across the city, local media reported.
* Japan's weather agency on Sunday issued its highest-level emergency warning for heavy rain for some areas in Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, amid reports of mudslides and vehicles stranded on flooded roads.
