* More than 46,000 people have been killed in the quake. The toll is expected to soar, with some 345,000 apartments in Turkey now known to have been destroyed, and many still missing.
* Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Saturday called on Congress to make early general elections the first topic of the next legislature that begins in March.
* Japan's foreign minister Hayashi Yoshimasa met his Republic of Korean counterpart Park Jin on Saturday and reiterated the need for continued communications between the two countries to return to a "healthy relationship".
* Russia will respond to the Netherlands' decision to limit the number of Russian diplomats in the country, TASS news agency reported citing the Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday.
* The Dutch government announced on Saturday the expulsion of a number of Russian diplomats for alleged espionage.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called for peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and warned of the escalation of the conflict here on Saturday.
* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday called on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to pressure the Israeli government to stop its unilateral measures in the Palestinian territories.
* Comorian President Azali Assoumani on Saturday took over the rotating African Union (AU) chairmanship at the opening of the 36th Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly.
* An Israeli rocket strike early on Sunday hit a building in central Damascus's Kafr Sousa neighbourhood near a large, heavily guarded security complex close to Iranian installations, killing five people, witnesses and officials said.
* The African continent should apply its own solutions to a wide range of problems affecting the continent, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Saturday.
* The Indian government announced on Saturday that a nuclear power plant will be set up in the northern Indian state of Haryana. According to the government, the nuclear plant, the first in north India, will come up in Gorakhpur town of the Fatehabad district, about 150 km north of the Indian capital New Delhi.
* US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will arrive on Sunday in Turkey for an official visit and discuss how Washington can further assist Ankara as it grapples with the aftermath of the earthquake.
* International Energy Agency (IEA) head Fatih Birol has warned of possible energy shortages next winter as relatively little new liquefied natural gas (LNG) is coming to the market while China's consumption set to rise this year.
* A power failure left 11 of Cuba's 15 provinces without power on Saturday, a national electricity generator said in a statement. The power outage affected areas from the province of Matanzas, about 100 km east of Havana, to Guantanamo in Cuba's far east.
* Sri Lankan Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation Nimal Siripala de Silva has said the government will spend around 132 million USD on port development projects.
* Myanmar's seaborne trade surged 19.42 percent year on year to about 22.24 billion USD in over 10 months of the 2022-23 fiscal year beginning in April last year, official data showed on Saturday.
* United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday said multiple inter-linked challenges are confronting the world with Africa facing major challenges.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday announced the largest allocation ever of 250 million USD from the United Nations global emergency fund to help the most vulnerable people in some of the most forgotten crises and to stave off famine.
* The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle in New Zealand climbed to 11 on Sunday as thousands of people remained missing a week after the storm struck the country's North Island.
* Severe thunderstorms rolled into Australia's most populated city Sydney on Saturday afternoon, bringing about damaging lightning and gusts that disrupted the daily life of local residents.
