* Thailand's parliament will hold its second vote for a new prime minister on July 19 after the previous nomination failed to secure majority support, National Assembly President Wan Muhamad Noor Matha confirmed on Friday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in which they discussed the Black Sea grain deal, due to expire on Monday, and a summit in South Africa next month, the Kremlin said on Saturday.
* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Saturday his country will provide a bigger batch of military supplies and humanitarian aid to Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv for a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
* A Chinese envoy on Thursday warned against military pressure on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin may visit Turkey next month for talks on several issues.
* Morocco and the European Union are seeking continuity of fisheries partnership as the four-year fisheries protocol agreed by the two parties will soon expire.
* India launched its third moon mission, called Chandrayaan-3, on Friday on the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre located in the southern state Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota area, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said.
* Illegal migrants in Tunisia received three billion dinars (about $1 billion) in remittances from sub-Sahara countries during the first half of 2023, an official from the national security council said in a meeting late on Friday.
* The closure of three Libyan oilfields could lead to the declaration of force majeure, the oil ministry said late on Friday, a day after the fields were shut in protest against the abduction of a former finance minister.
* Myanmar annually produces over 9,000 tons of coffee, including over 7,000 tons of Arabica coffee and over 2,000 tons of Robusta coffee, U Myo Aye, the chairman of the Myanmar Coffee Association, said on Friday.
* Ukraine received 3.87 billion USD from its partners for the country's rapid recovery, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Friday, citing Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko.
* Parties to the conflict in Sudan must guarantee safe humanitarian access as misery deepens for civilians, urged UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths in a statement on Saturday.
* Turkish police launched a counter-terror operation against alleged members of the Islamic State (IS) group and detained more than two dozen suspects, the local NTV broadcaster reported on Friday.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani held a phone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday on bilateral ties and road construction linking the two countries.
* Tunisian President Kais Saied has reiterated his readiness to curb the rising illegal migration problem in the country.
* The World Bank Group has pledged to support Ghana to prevent a dire energy crisis that could hamstring the economy.
* The UN General Assembly president underscored the importance of sustainable tourism during a side event held Friday on the sidelines of the ongoing High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF).
* Afghanistan will soon reach self-sufficiency in agriculture as efforts are underway to help the country get rid of import reliance, Acting Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock Ataullah Omari said Friday.
* A vessel chartered by the United Nations set sail from Djibouti on Saturday toward Yemen to transfer oil from a deteriorating tanker that poses a major environmental and humanitarian threat.
* The African Union (AU) is implementing an ambitious food security program to tackle the climate-induced hunger and malnutrition crisis in the continent, an AU official has said.
* More than 43 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance across drought-affected Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia in 2023, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warned Friday.
* A vessel chartered by the United Nations set sail from Djibouti on Saturday toward Yemen to transfer oil from a deteriorating tanker that poses a major environmental and humanitarian threat.
* India's overall exports, including merchandise and services, were estimated to be 60.09 billion USD in June, a decrease of 13.16 percent year-on-year, showed data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Friday.
* Myanmar welcomed 69,373 international arrivals in May this year, up from 14,115 visitors registered in the same period last year, according to the figures released by the Ministry of Hotels and Tourism on Saturday.
* Fiji's inflation is expected to rise from August and register at 4.7 percent at the end of the year, in light of the recently announced tax increases in the 2023-2024 National Budget, said the latest report released by the country's central bank.
* Ireland's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 9.4 percent in 2022, slightly less than the 12 percent estimate published in March, the country's Central Statistics Office (CSO) said Friday.
* In June, the German wholesale price index, a measure of inflation based on the prices of goods, fell by 2.9 percent, the sharpest year-on-year decline in three years, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said on Friday.
* Heavy rains in South Korea had left at least 22 people dead and 14 others missing, Yonhap news agency said on Saturday citing relevant authorities.
* At least 22 people have been killed due to lightning in India's eastern state of Bihar, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) reported on Saturday.
* Heavy rain pounded Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Saturday, with evacuation orders issued in more than 10 municipalities in the prefecture.
* The Kyrgyz Ministry of Emergency Situations issued on Friday a warning for unusual heat which is expected to last from Monday to Wednesday. According to the warning, air temperature across the country will rise to 40 degrees Celsius.
