* The Chinese and Indian militaries held a constructive meeting on resolving border issues on Monday, China's defence ministry said in a statement.
* EU members approved a 13th package of Ukraine-related sanctions against Russia on Wednesday, banning nearly 200 entities and individuals accused of helping Moscow procure weapons or of involvement in kidnapping Ukrainian children.
* Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Wednesday for emergency talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the European Union over a blockade of his country's border with Poland by Polish farmers.
* The United States on Tuesday vetoed a Security Council draft resolution that would have called for a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.
* The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday strongly criticized the United States for using its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to block a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
* Secretary-General of the Arab League (AL) Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Wednesday condemned the United States for vetoing a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the AL said in a statement.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani said Tuesday that Iraq does not need military advisors from 25 countries to work within the mission of the U.S.-led international coalition to fight the Islamic State (IS) group.
* Israel stepped up its bombardment of the southern city of Rafah, residents said on Wednesday, as the death toll in the war across the devastated Palestinian strip rose to 29,313, according to the Gaza health ministry.
* King Abdullah II of Jordan on Tuesday warned against the cessation of international funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), saying it is a vital lifeline for nearly 2 million people facing the risk of famine in Gaza.
* Yemen's Houthi group warned the European Union (EU) not to join the coalition of the United States and Britain in the Red Sea, otherwise its ships would be targeted, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported on Tuesday.
* The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that it has transferred 32 critical patients, including two children, from the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza in two life-saving missions in the past two days.
* The Qatari government said on Tuesday that Hamas has confirmed the receipt of a shipment of medicines and the commencement of their delivery to beneficiaries among the Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip.
* The French navy has shot down two aerial drones from Yemen over the Red Sea where Houthi attacks have targeted international commercial vessels, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces said on Tuesday.
* Turkish police have detained 67 suspects over their alleged links to a network accused of orchestrating a coup attempt in 2016, the country's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Wednesday.
* International solidarity will be key to phasing out short-lived climate pollutants or super pollutants that include methane, black carbon, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), senior United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) officials said Wednesday.
* Russian exports of agricultural products stood around 43.5 billion USD in 2023, First Deputy Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut said Tuesday at the Grain Forum 2024.
* Japan's exports rose 11.9 percent from a year earlier to 7.33 trillion yen (48.87 billion USD) in January, marking the second straight month of growth, government data showed Wednesday.
* Bank Indonesia on Wednesday decided to maintain its benchmark interest rate at 6.0 percent, with the goal of keeping inflation within the 1.5 to 3.5 percent target range this year.
* The German government expects the economy to grow 0.2% this year, far less than a previously forecast 1.3%, as weak global demand, geopolitical uncertainty and persistently high inflation dent hopes for a swift rebound.
* Russia's Gazprom said that it would ship 42.4 million cubic metres of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Wednesday.
* Sri Lanka's government will propose an 18% cut in electricity prices for households on Thursday, a top official said, aiming to ease high living costs for millions living in the grip of the country's worst financial crisis in decades.
* As labor and business groups failed to reach an agreement, Argentina has proposed a 30-percent increase in the minimum wage by March, the presidency's spokesperson Manuel Adorni said Tuesday.
* The Arab region's unemployment rate is expected to remain at 9.8 percent in 2024, above the pre-pandemic levels, said a report released by the International Labor Organization (ILO) on Tuesday, calling for urgent action in the "complex" Arab labor market.
* Spain's birth rate has dropped to its lowest level since records started in 1941, provisional data from its National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Wednesday, with just 322,075 babies adding to the country's population of 48.6 million in 2023.
* Immigration authorities in Zambia detained 342 illegal immigrants during cleanup operations conducted in various parts of the country recently, a spokesperson said Tuesday.
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