* The Third South Summit ended on Monday in the Ugandan capital Kampala with participating leaders calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and the protection of civilians.
* The Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday that it hoped all parties at the United Nations reviewing China's human rights record would be "constructive" and "non-politicised".
* U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke on Monday about the importance of protecting navigational rights and freedoms in the Red Sea, the State Department said.
* Twenty-four Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza, the military said on Tuesday, the biggest death toll in a single day since the war began in October, amid what Palestinians said was the most intense bombardment of southern Gaza in the conflict.
* The U.S.-British coalition struck Houthi camps in Yemen's capital and other provinces at midnight, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported Tuesday.
* Nearly 9,000 people, according to the police, participated in a march in Brussels on Sunday, demanding concrete measures from Belgium to establish an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and ensure justice for the Palestinian people.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will leave for Ankara on an official visit Wednesday at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported on Monday.
* NATO has signed a 1.1 billion euro contract for 155mm artillery ammunition, the alliance said on Tuesday, with part of the shells to be supplied to Ukraine after complaints a shortage of munitions was hampering its war efforts.
* New Zealand will deploy a six-member defence team to the Middle East as part of an international coalition to uphold maritime security in the Red Sea, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Tuesday.
* Pakistan and Iran have mutually agreed that ambassadors of both countries may return to their respective posts by Jan. 26.
* China-Cambodia economic and trade cooperation achieved fruitful results in 2023, thanks to the strategic guidance set out by the leaders of the two countries, a Chinese diplomat said on Monday.
* In the first 11 months of last year, the trade volume between Russia and India increased 1.9 times year on year, reaching a record high of 59.7 billion USD, RIA Novosti news agency reported on Monday, citing data from the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
* Myanmar's foreign trade has surpassed 23.74 billion USD in over nine months of the 2023-24 fiscal year, according to the Ministry of Commerce on Monday.
* New Zealand's employment confidence rose in the December quarter but job prospects are dimming, a survey said on Tuesday.
* The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Monday released a report on Italian economy, suggesting an array of reforms that it said would help the country avoid an economic slowdown.
* Sri Lanka's central bank kept interest rates steady on Tuesday, in line with market expectations, to help control inflation as new taxes put upward pressure on expenses.
* Egypt's digital exports increased by 26.5 percent to 6.2 billion USD in 2023, up from 4.9 billion dollars in 2022, Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat said Monday.
* The head of World Health Organization (WTO) on Monday called on all countries to work urgently towards a pandemic accord.
* Recent El Nino-induced floods in Ethiopia's southeastern region of Somali forced more than 67,000 children out of school, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.
* The death toll from a landslide in China's Yunnan province rose to 20 on Tuesday afternoon as rescue workers battled freezing temperatures and snow to locate dozens of missing people.
* A tropical low in the Coral Sea will likely develop into a cyclone and hit Australia's northeast later this week, the weather bureau said on Tuesday, a month after tropical Cyclone Jasper caused widespread damage across the region.
