* Thai acting Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai has ordered relevant departments to draft legal documents to initiate criminal and civil lawsuits domestically and internationally against Cambodia, Thai government spokesman Jirayu Houngsub said on Tuesday.
* Thailand's legal action against Cambodia for using military forces and weapons to violate its sovereignty is baseless and politically motivated and lacks incredible basis, a Cambodian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday.
* Malaysia is prepared to send a monitoring team along the Thailand-Cambodia border if both countries request it, Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday. The situation along the border remains under control, although it is still tense and sensitive, he told the parliament.
* China will continue to support ASEAN in promoting talks for peace and play a constructive role in its own way for the turnaround of Cambodia-Thailand relations, foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Tuesday.
* Sovereign nations have the right to choose their trade and economic partners based on their own interests, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, commenting on U.S. tariff threats against India.
* Russia no longer has restrictions on the deployment of intermediate-range and shorter-range ground-based missiles, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he held a "productive" phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump over putting an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
* Norway, Sweden and Denmark have unveiled a joint military support package for Ukraine, aimed at securing urgently needed U.S.-made defense equipment through an initiative coordinated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Norwegian government announced on Tuesday.
* The Netherlands will finance a 500 million euros (about 578 million USD) military aid package for Ukraine under a new NATO initiative, including air defense systems, the Dutch Ministry of Defense announced Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that U.S. tariffs on chip and pharmaceutical imports would be coming "within the next week or so."
* The European Commission on Tuesday formally suspended planned retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports worth 93 billion euros (about 108 billion USD), just days before they were due to take effect.
* The European Union (EU) is "too weak" in its negotiations with the United States on new tariffs, German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said Monday during a visit to Washington.
* Brazil will respond to a steep tariff increase imposed by the United States with a contingency plan and take its case to the World Trade Organization (WTO), President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will first require visa applicants from Zambia and Malawi, two African countries, to pay bonds of up to 15,000 USD for some tourist and business visas, the State Department said on Tuesday.
* A senior UN official on Tuesday warned against the possible expansion of Israeli military operations through the Gaza Strip. The latest reports regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's possible decision to expand Israel's military operations through the entire Gaza Strip, if true, are deeply alarming, said UN Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas Miroslav Jenca.
* Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday highlighted the necessity to stop Israeli "crimes" in Gaza through cooperation among Muslim states, according to a statement issued by the Iranian president's office. The two leaders discussed the latest regional developments and bilateral relations in a phone conversation.
* Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics on Tuesday urged action to secure the release of hostages and ease civilian suffering in Gaza during a meeting with visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
* China's top diplomat Wang Yi said on Wednesday that China is willing to work with Brazil to deepen bilateral cooperation and leverage the stability and complementarity of their cooperation to effectively offset external uncertainties.
* Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will attend a trilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Washington during Pashinyan's visit to the United States on Thursday and Friday, Armenian state news agency Armenpress said Wednesday.
* China has issued a set of guidelines to strengthen financial support for new industrialization, the country's central bank said on Tuesday. The guidelines, released by the People's Bank of China and six other government organs, state that a financial system for advanced, smart and green manufacturing should be largely in place by 2027.
* Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos on Wednesday ordered the suspension of rice importation for 60 days beginning Sept. 1 to protect Filipino farmers during this current harvest season.
* The Indonesian government will launch a 10.8-trillion-rupiah economic stimulus package in the third quarter to accelerate economic expansion, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati announced on Tuesday.
* Myanmar aims to export over 40,000 tons of pineapples in the 2025-26 fiscal year, the state-owned Myanmar Radio and Television reported on Tuesday.
* The United States is halting hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for the development of mRNA-based vaccines as part of a major policy shift in federal public health strategy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday.
* Israel's military said 110 humanitarian aid packages were airdropped Tuesday over Gaza, where international aid experts say famine is unfolding after nearly 22 months of Israeli military offensive.
* Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Tuesday stressed the need for joint efforts to open all crossings to allow immediate and sufficient humanitarian aid into Gaza to address the "unprecedented" humanitarian catastrophe.
* At least 83 Palestinians were killed by Israeli shelling and gunfire across Gaza on Tuesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense.
* Hezbollah Leader Naim Qassem warned Tuesday that any new Israeli war on Lebanon would be met with rocket fire, asserting the group's readiness to retaliate and defend the country.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani affirmed on Tuesday his country's commitment to Lebanon's stability and its support for the Lebanese people.
* The Philippines' unemployment rate in June 2025 eased to 3.7 percent, down from 3.9 percent in May 2025, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Wednesday.
* Canada's merchandise imports rose 1.4 percent, marking the first increase in four months, while exports increased 0.9 percent in June, said Statistics Canada on Tuesday.
* The Latvian government on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in the country's agricultural sector, effective until Nov. 5, in response to prolonged rainfall and flooding that have severely disrupted this year's harvest.
* Torrential rains have disrupted traffic across highways and rural roads in south China's Guangdong Province, prompting authorities to ramp up emergency response efforts as flood risks intensify.
* A powerful earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula last Wednesday caused the southern part of the region to shift nearly two meters southeast, local authorities said Tuesday.
* A dam has been destroyed near the Klyuchevskoy Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, raising concerns over potential mudflows and transportation disruptions in the region, local authorities said on Wednesday.
* Authorities evacuated beaches, hotels, and campsites near the southern Spanish resort of Tarifa on Tuesday afternoon after a fast-moving wildfire broke out amid hot and windy conditions.
