* Cambodia and Georgia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the establishment of a political consultation mechanism in order to further strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation, a Cambodian foreign ministry's press release said on Saturday.
* Russian energy giant Gazprom GAZP.MM said it would ship 42 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday, a volume broadly in line with those of recent days.
* Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday his government would legislate changes this week to planned tax cuts set to reduce benefits to the wealthy while giving low-income earners more breaks, as Australians endure higher living costs.
* A total of 27,365 Palestinians have been killed and 66,630 have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
* The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and militias it backs, reportedly killing nearly 40 people, in retaliation for a deadly attack on U.S. troops.
* The Iraqi foreign ministry on Saturday summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Baghdad to deliver a formal memorandum of protest over U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, the state news agency INA reported.
* Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday his government was probing claims that some staff of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) were involved in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, after Australia paused funding to the aid agency last month.
* Six Nigerian students and three teachers kidnapped by gunmen while returning from a school trip last week were freed on Sunday but their driver had been killed, the state government said.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday the successful launch of 11 satellites over the past 30 months showed that the sanctions against his country had failed.
* The United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) which has been actively supporting Somalia in enhancing the capabilities of the security forces, has committed to provide technical training for the local forces during the transition period.
* The growing burden of cancer in Africa should serve as a wake-up call for governments to roll out high-impact interventions that seek to reduce caseload and fatalities, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Sunday during World Cancer Day.
* The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has called for urgent concerted humanitarian support to tackle an impending drought-induced humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia.
* The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Saturday it will establish an international scientific committee to review the architectural restoration project of the Pyramid of Menkaure at Giza Plateau.
* At least 46 people were killed after fires engulfed the Valparaiso region in central Chile, Chilean President Gabriel Boric said Saturday. The Chilean government imposed a curfew on the Quilpue, Villa Alemana, Vina del Mar and Limache communes in the Valparaiso region from 9 p.m. Saturday (0000 GMT on Sunday) to 10 a.m. Sunday (1300 GMT) to combat the fires.
* Large swaths of Australia on Sunday sweltered through a heatwave as authorities warned of elevated bushfire risk in an already high-risk fire season during an El Nino weather pattern.
