* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed new health and environment ministers in a minor reshuffle of his cabinet early Tuesday.
* Chinese President Xi Jinping left Beijing on Tuesday morning for the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Astana, and state visits to Kazakhstan and Tajikistan at the invitation of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of the Republic of Kazakhstan and President Emomali Rahmon of the Republic of Tajikistan.
* The Missile Administration of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) successfully conducted a test-fire of new-type tactical ballistic missile Hwasongpho-11Da-4.5 on Monday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Tuesday.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will make his first trip to Kyiv on Tuesday since Russia launched special military operation against Ukraine in 2022, to meet with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
* Russia issued a permanent entry ban on 99 Canadian citizens as a countermeasure, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
* China's Vice Premier He Lifeng said China is willing to work with Switzerland to deepen and expand cooperation in economic and trade fields, and improve the level of investment, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.
* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declined an invitation to the upcoming NATO summit in Washington.
* German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk meet in Warsaw on Tuesday, as nations with a difficult shared history seek to reinforce cooperation in the face of security challenges and political turbulence in Europe.
* The Ukrainian military adopted about 480 models of weapons and military equipment in the first half of 2024, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
* The Netherlands will supply Ukraine with the first of 24 promised F-16 fighter jets soon, the outgoing Dutch government said on Monday.
* The Black Sea Mine Countermeasure Task Group, a trilateral effort by Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania, launched its mission on Monday to locate and neutralize drifting mines in the Black Sea, Turkey's Anadolu Agency reported.
* The Tunisia-Libya border at the Ras Jedir crossing point in southeastern Tunisia was reopened Monday after a closure of more than three months.
* Kenya and the European Union (EU) reached a milestone in their trade relations with the implementation of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on Monday, an official of the East African nation said.
* Five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a gathering in Gaza City on Monday, while the Israeli army urged residents of eastern Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, to evacuate immediately.
* The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad fired a barrage of rockets into Israel on Monday as fighting raged in Gaza and Israeli tanks advanced deeper in parts of the enclave, residents and officials said.
* Iran and Turkey have warned against the consequences of Israel's prolonged strikes against Gaza and potential attack on Lebanon.
* Yemen's Houthis said on Monday that they conducted four military operations targeting four ships in the Red, Arabian and Mediterranean Seas as well as the Indian Ocean "linked to the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel."
* Australia's life expectancy fell for the first time in almost 30 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, a government report has revealed.
* The European Central Bank needs more time to conclude that inflation is firmly on a path to 2% and benign economic developments indicate that rate cuts are not urgent, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.
* Chile's government has raised the country's minimum wage to 500,000 Chilean pesos (about 530 USD), effective from Monday, marking the largest minimum wage hike in nearly 30 years.
* Saudi Arabia's energy minister announced on Monday the discovery of seven oil and gas deposits in the kingdom's Eastern Province and Empty Quarter, the official Saudi news agency SPA reported.
* The World Bank said on Monday that it had approved $700 million for two new programs aimed at strengthening Jordan's education, health and social assistance sectors.
* China is expected to see 860 million railway trips during the summer travel rush that kicks off on Monday, according to the country's railway operator. This year's summer travel rush will last for 62 days until Aug. 31.
* Egypt announced on Monday that its tourism revenue hit 6.6 billion USD in the first half of 2024, surpassing the 6.3 billion dollars during the same period in 2023.
* The damaging effects of climate change are a major driver and multiplier of suffering, displacement and competition for scarce resources, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday.
* At least 33 people are still missing in Brazil after flooding and landslides wreaked havoc in 90 percent of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, leaving 179 people dead, the state's civil defense agency said Monday.
* Italy suffered massive damages and disruptions on Monday after exceptional downpours battered its northwestern regions over the weekend, local authorities said.
