* The World Health Organization (WHO) brought 35 tons of relief aid to the quake-hit Aleppo city in northern Syria on Saturday as WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reached the city and visited some hospitalized people, shelters where displaced people are staying, and damaged areas.
* The second round of presidential elections started in Cyprus on Sunday morning as more than 1,000 polling stations opened for voting. Two veteran diplomats are vying for the country's presidency for the next five years.
* Forty-six members of Lebanon's 128-seat parliament announced on Saturday that they will not participate in any legislative session before electing a new president of the country.
* Md Shahabuddin Chuppu, a former Anti-Corruption Commission official, is all set to become the next president of Bangladesh as the country's ruling party nominated him as its presidential candidate Sunday.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit China from Tuesday to Thursday at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, China's foreign ministry announced on Sunday.
* NATO should hold an emergency meeting to discuss recent findings about September explosions at the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said late on Saturday.
* US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov discussed "priorities", including air defence and artillery, for upcoming meetings of Kyiv's allies in Brussels, both sides said late on Saturday.
* Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Sunday met UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed in the first such high-level visit by an Arab official since the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, official media reported.
* The Qatari emir visited quake-hit Türkiye and met with the Turkish president in Istanbul on Sunday.
* Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias visited Türkiye on Sunday in a show of support as massive earthquakes hitting the country have left more than 24,000 killed.
* Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday promised a stronger Israeli response in dealing with a spate of Palestinian attacks in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, as pressure swelled within his right-wing government to employ more severe tactics.
* The French Ministry of Interior said on Saturday that about 963,000 people across the country protested against the proposed pension reform, up from the 757,000 recorded on Feb. 7.
* Lebanon has started to receive the first shipment of 33,000 tons of wheat financed by the World Bank via a 150 million-USD loan.
* An air raid carried out by troops including those from Somali National Army (SNA) killed 12 al-Shabab militants in the central region, the allied forces said Sunday.
* Death toll has risen to 18 from landslides in Peru's southern province of Camana in the Arequipa region, Defense Minister Jorge Chavez said on Saturday.
* Twenty severe weather warnings and watches are in place as tropical cyclone Gabrielle is landing far north of New Zealand and is expected to swipe through most parts of the North Island from Sunday.
* Seven people, including six police officers, died and 22 others were injured in a car crash in Misamis Oriental province in southern Philippines on Saturday, police said.
