* A Russian Su-30 fighter "has escorted" a U.S. reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle over the Black Sea, Russian news agency Tass said Saturday.
* Niger's capital was calm on Sunday, with citizens appearing to pay little heed to the threat of military intervention by West Africa's regional bloc, as its ultimatum for the country's coup leaders to reinstate the president expires.
* Moscow strongly condemns Kiev's "terrorist attack" on a Russian civilian ship in the Kerch Strait, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Saturday.
* Lebanon's caretaker premier Najib Mikati said on Saturday there was no cause for "concern or panic" about his country's security situation, after Germany and Gulf countries issued new travel warnings following outbreaks of violence.
* A Palestinian official on Saturday called on the international community to list the far-right Israeli party Otzma Yehudit headed by Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir as a terror group.
* Bolivian President Luis Arce said on Saturday that his country recorded the lowest inflation rate in the South American region in the first half of the year.
* A Turkish drone strike on Sunday killed a Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant and wounded another in Iraq's northern province of Sulaimaniya, Iraqi Kurdish security sources said.
* Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) on Saturday evening said the country's third moon mission Chandrayaan-3 was successfully inserted into the lunar orbit.
* A groundbreaking ceremony was held Saturday for construction of the largest solar telescope in Eurasia by the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics (ISTP) of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in the Republic of Buryatia.
* Pakistan on Saturday verified that its population has reached 241.49 million after the country's top body the Council of Common Interests (CCI) unanimously approved the 7th census conducted earlier this year, said the Prime Minister's office.
* Authorities in northeastern China raised their emergency response level on Sunday as tributaries of the Songhua, a major river, rose to dangerous levels after days of heavy rain caused by Typhoon Doksuri.
* The storm and record rainfall that hit Slovenia on Friday have affected two-thirds of the country and the resulting value of damage will probably exceed 500 million euros (551 million USD), Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob said on Saturday.
* An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Santiago Del Estero Province, Argentina at 0720 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said.
* The death toll from a landslide in western Georgia has risen to 17 as of Sunday, the country's Interior Ministry said.
* Bangladesh reported 10 more deaths and 2,495 dengue cases on Saturday, the country's health ministry said.
