* Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni has appealed to all eligible people to exercise their right to vote in a general election, which will be held on Sunday.
* Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday suspended Move Forward Party leader and prime minister candidate Pita Limjaroenrat as a member of parliament pending the court's ruling on his disqualification case submitted by the Election Commission.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday to discuss bilateral relations and Caucasus regional developments, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
* Five Central European EU members will jointly ask the EU on Wednesday to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports beyond a Sept. 15 deadline to avoid major market disruptions, Hungary's farm minister told Reuters.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva said on Wednesday he will send the European Union a counter-proposal on the long-delayed trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur in the coming two or three weeks.
* Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero on Tuesday called for rebalancing the trade agreement between the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the European Union (EU), saying the South American bloc "ceded much more" than the EU in the deal signed in 2019.
* The conflict in Sudan continues to displace civilians at an alarming rate, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
* The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and its partners on Tuesday called for urgent action to save Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10: Reduced Inequality.
* The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday called for taking immediate action to address its funding crisis to avoid dire consequences for refugees.
* China's agriculture ministry on Tuesday urged cotton growers in the world's top producer to irrigate and fertilise more to cope with scorching temperatures that have hit major growing areas during the critical flowering period.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) maintained its gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for the Philippines at 6 percent for this year and 6.2 percent for 2024, according to an updated ADB report released on Wednesday.
* Argentina's economic activity fell 5.5% in May from a year earlier, the country's official statistics agency said on Tuesday, lower than the 3.2% expected by a Refinitiv poll as farming production slid.
* Israel's parliament will hold final votes next week on a highly-disputed bill that would limit the Supreme Court's power, according to a Knesset statement on Wednesday.
* The United States is experiencing with a range of unusual weather, from a tropical storm in Hawaii to record-breaking heat across its Sun Belt states and poor air quality in many areas as smoke from Canadian wildfires wafts across the border.
* The Moroccan navy rescued 854 illegal immigrants from July 10 to 17 off the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts, the Moroccan news agency MAP reported Tuesday.
* India's financial capital Mumbai and its adjacent areas are receiving heavy to very heavy rains which will continue over the next few days, said media reports on Wednesday.
* With 60,000 deaths in Europe last year due to extreme heat, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official has stressed the "desperate and urgent need" to tackle the climate crisis.
* Severe weather triggered landslides and flooding in southern Myanmar, with its southernmost town Kawthaung experiencing its heaviest single-day rainfall in 76 years on Tuesday.
* A heat wave is expected to hit Iraq in the coming weeks, with temperatures surpassing 50 degrees Celsius, an Iraqi environment and climate observatory forecasted on Tuesday.
* At least 34 people died and 12 were injured when a bus and a car collided in Algeria early on Wednesday, Algeria's fire service said.
