* Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her newly selected vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, campaigned for the first time together on Tuesday in Philadelphia, kicking off a multi-day tour of battleground states aimed at introducing Walz to the national stage.
* Bolivian President Luis Arce on Tuesday proposed holding a referendum on presidential re-election, distribution of seats in the Legislative Assembly (Congress) and fuel subsidies.
* Chinese central authorities have allocated more funds to help seven regions cope with the aftermath of serious floods and geological disasters. A total of 465 million yuan (about 65.14 million USD) of funds, jointly earmarked by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management, will be used to support disaster relief efforts in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan and Shaanxi.
* Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry submitted an amendment bill to enhance power resilience to the Parliament for the first reading on Tuesday.
* Mexico has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Oct. 1 inauguration of President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum, Russia's Izvestia newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing Mexico's embassy to Russia.
* The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that an employee of the Moldovan Embassy in Moscow had been declared persona non grata as a response to similar actions by Chisinau.
* The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that the Ukrainian forces launched a massive attack on the defense positions in Russia's Kursk region at 8:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT).
* Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on Tuesday called for urgent global consensus to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He made the remarks while meeting visiting Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba.
* Niger will break off diplomatic ties with Ukraine "with immediate effect," Amadou Abdramane, spokesman for the Niger military government, announced on national television on Tuesday.
* U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with the leaders of Qatar and Egypt on Tuesday to discuss efforts to de-escalate tensions in the region and bring a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal, the White House said.
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi discussed the situation in the Middle East in a phone call on Tuesday, emphasising the need for restraint on all sides to avoid catastrophic consequences, Russia's foreign ministry said.
* The United States has communicated to Iran and Israel that there is a consensus in the Middle East that conflict must not escalate, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday.
* Hamas named its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar as successor to former political chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, the group said on Tuesday, in a move that reinforces the radical path pursued since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
* Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide has issued a strong advisory urging all Norwegian citizens currently in Lebanon to leave the country immediately due to the escalating security situation.
* The U.S.-British coalition carried out two airstrikes on Yemen's southwestern province of Taiz late on Tuesday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. The coalition has yet to confirm the attacks, and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
* The Libyan Foreign Ministry and the EU Border Assistance Mission in Libya (EUBAM) on Tuesday discussed the second half of the mission's 7th mandate on bolstering Libya's capabilities in protecting its borders.
* Israeli forces backed by drone strikes killed at least 11 Palestinians in clashes around the volatile West Bank city of Jenin, the military and Palestinian health authorities said, after large scale operations by troops and police.
* Around 40 French museums, including the Grand Palais where Olympic events are being held, fell victim to a ransomware attack last weekend, local media BFMTV reported on Tuesday.
* Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Tuesday delivered 1,782 rifles to the national police to bolster its capacity to fight organized crime plaguing the South American country. The weapons include 1,752 5.56 caliber rifles and 30 high-precision rifles.
* Evidence obtained by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) indicated that nine staff members of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) may have been involved in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
* Around 100 people have been charged, some concerning online activity, after the week-long riots across the United Kingdom (UK), the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Tuesday.
* The unemployment rate in the Philippines dropped to 3.1 percent in June from 4.1 percent in May, the lowest rate in nearly two decades, the government said Wednesday.
* New Zealand's unemployment rate was 4.6 percent in the June 2024 quarter, compared with 4.4 percent last quarter and 3.6 percent in the June 2023 quarter, the statistics department Stats NZ said on Wednesday.
* India's seafood exports witnessed a remarkable growth of 30.81 percent in the past five fiscal years, showed data released by the federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Tuesday.
* South Korea's export of agricultural and food products rose in the first seven months of this year due to strong demand from the United States and Europe, government data showed Tuesday.
* Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said Tuesday that the government projects that annual inflation will ease to 40 percent by the end of the year.
* Libya's state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Tuesday announced a reduction in output at the Al-Sharara oilfield, the largest in the country, due to sit-ins.
* At least 30 people have been confirmed dead due to starvation in the last two months in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area in South Sudan near the border with Ethiopia, an official confirmed Tuesday.
* Mongolia's National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring reported on Wednesday that water levels in major rivers across Mongolia have surpassed warning thresholds due to continuous heavy rainfall.
* Tropical Storm Debby inundated coastal Georgia and South Carolina with a deluge of rain on Tuesday that could bring "catastrophic flooding" to Charleston, Savannah and other cities in the southeastern United States, the National Hurricane Center said.
* Italy is expected to endure record high temperatures in a summer already filled with severe heat waves. Meteorological data site Il Meteo said on Tuesday that the coming days will be the "most torrid of the summer" with temperatures as high as 43 degrees Celsius in the southernmost parts of the country.
* South Korea's heatwave death toll rose to 14 so far this year, with almost 1,700 people treated for heat-related illnesses, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
