* Chinese Vice Premier Liu He on Saturday underscored smooth logistics and transportation, safe production and epidemic prevention during the Spring Festival travel rush.
* Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM said it would ship 35.5 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday.
* Seychelles has decided not to introduce restrictive measures or requirements for incoming passengers from any country, including China, in spite of a surge in respiratory illnesses globally, especially in the northern hemisphere.
* Cyprus' inflation rate is tapering off, but it still stands at a high level, Marios Drousiotis, president of the Cyprus Consumers Association, said on Saturday.
* The Iraqi Ministry of Planning said on Saturday that the poverty rate in the country was 25 percent in 2022, the Iraqi official news agency reported.
* Iran's exports to Saudi Arabia have increased dramatically in 2022 amid the two countries' efforts to ease tensions, Iran's IRIB news agency reported on Saturday.
* Afghan authorities have inaugurated a water canal in Dawlatabad district of the northern Balkh province to irrigate more than 8,000 hectares of land, a provincial government official Mohammad Ibrahim said Saturday.
* Torrential downpours and damaging winds left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power in US's California late on Sunday as the area braced for the next onslaught of severe weather.
* India is to seek help of satellite images to look into buildings developing cracks and underground water emerging through fissures in roads and floors due to land subsidence in the country's northern hilly state of Uttarakhand.
* The rescue team has recovered three miners from under the debris after 61 hours in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province, the provincial director of information and culture Qari Maazudin said Sunday.
* At least five African migrants died and another 10 were missing after a boat sank off Tunisia, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said on Saturday.
