* Thailand's Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Tuesday after accepting a petition accusing her of constitutional violation.
* Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed efforts to advance the building of a unified national market and promote the high-quality development of the marine economy.
* Laos' Ministry of National Defense will recruit 2,000 volunteer teachers to serve as soldier-teachers, aimed at addressing teacher shortages and reducing dropout rates in remote and underserved areas.
* The Indonesian government has made investment procedures in the country simpler and clearer, aiming to attract more domestic and foreign investors, said Riyatno, deputy for investment climate development of the Ministry of Investment and Downstream, on Monday.
* Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Tuesday released roughly 1.5 million baby fish and other young aquatic creatures into a natural lake in the country's southern part to mark the 20th National Fish Day.
* Myanmar's Department of Rural Development will implement 14 water supply works across 12 villages in southern Myanmar's Tanintharyi region in the 2025-26 fiscal year, Ye Khaung, Director of the Department of Rural Development (Tanintharyi region) told Xinhua on Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Monday to toughen U.S. policy on Cuba, including restrictions on certain financial transactions and travel.
* A total of 3,284 Afghan families with 13,029 members returned to their homeland from neighboring Iran and Pakistan on Monday, Afghanistan's High Commission for Addressing Returnees Problems announced Tuesday.
* Japan has no intention of sacrificing its agricultural sector in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's recent demand that Japan import more American rice, the country's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi stressed Tuesday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order terminating most sanctions on Syria, the White House said in a fact sheet.
* The Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers on Monday called for the resumption of negotiations to reach a comprehensive, verifiable and durable agreement that addresses Iran's nuclear program.
* The trade talks between the United States and Canada will resume immediately following Canada's cancellation of digital service tax (DST), said White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on Monday.
* Moscow has decided to impose reciprocal restrictions on 15 European media outlets operating in Russia in response to EU sanctions against several Russian media outlets, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
* Norway and other European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries signed a new economic partnership agreement with Malaysia during the EFTA ministerial meeting held last week in Tromso, northern Norway.
* Turkey will host the 2026 NATO leaders' summit in its capital Ankara, the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday.
* The digital legislation is not on the table in the trade negotiations between the European Union (EU) and the United States, European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told a briefing Monday.
* Sweden will ban AR-15 rifles and similar semi-automatic firearms for hunting following a deadly school shooting in February.
* Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Monday hailed Turkey's "intense cooperation" with Britain and called for further expansion of bilateral trade.
* Foreign ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) met Monday in Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan, to discuss regional and international security issues, according to the press service of the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry.
* Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Monday that the government is considering reinstating border controls on the country's borders with Germany and Lithuania in response to concerns over illegal migration.
* Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday urged inclusive and strong multilateralism at the opening session of the fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, held here in southern Spain.
* The death toll from a recent Israeli attack on Evin Prison in the Iranian capital Tehran rose to 79, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Monday held phone conversations with his Iranian counterpart, Seyed Abbas Araghchi, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on the resolution of the Iranian nuclear issue.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday discussed developments in the Middle East and ways to restore regional stability.
* The Security Council on Monday unanimously adopted a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force on the Golan Heights for six months until Dec. 31, 2025.
* African delegates at the inaugural Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA 2025) in the Rwandan capital of Kigali on Monday called for the accelerated adoption of nuclear energy to meet the continent's rising energy demand, support industrialization, and drive sustainable development.
* China's film market maintained strong growth in the first half of 2025, with total box office revenue exceeding 29.23 billion yuan (about 4.09 billion USD), a 22.91 percent year-on-year increase, official data shows.
* Indonesia recorded a sharp increase of 14.01 percent year-on-year in foreign tourist arrivals, reaching a total of 1.31 million visits in May 2025, Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced on Tuesday.
* LNG Canada on Monday loaded its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG), marking the start of operations at Canada's first large-scale LNG export facility.
* At least 35 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a massive explosion inside a chemical factory in the southern Indian state of Telangana, officials said Tuesday. The death toll swelled due to the recovery of more bodies from the debris during the overnight rescue operation.
* Turkey has evacuated more than 50,000 people from regions affected by forest fires across the country, with the western province of Izmir accounting for the majority of evacuations, the country's disaster agency said on Monday.
* Spain recorded its highest-ever temperature for the month of June over the weekend, as a fierce heatwave continues to grip southern Europe.
* Meteo-France has placed 84 departments on orange alert for a heatwave, with temperatures already exceeding 35 degrees Celsius across three-quarters of the country and locally approaching 40 degrees, the agency said on its official website on Monday.
* Portugal has set a new national temperature record for the month of June. According to data from the Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), the inland town of Mora, in the Evora district, recorded a maximum temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius on June 29, marking the highest temperature ever recorded in Portugal during June.
* The Mediterranean Sea recorded its highest average sea surface temperature ever for the month of June on Sunday, reaching 26.01 degrees Celsius, according to French media reports citing data from the European Copernicus program analyzed by Meteo-France.
* Bangladesh has witnessed a significant spike in dengue cases in June, with over 10,000 cases and 42 deaths registered so far this year. In June, 5,951 more dengue cases were recorded after 1,773 people were infected with the viral disease in May.
