* Australia's 48th federal parliament has officially been opened by Prime Minister (PM) Anthony Albanese following May's general election. Albanese on Tuesday morning opened the 48th session of the federal legislature during a ceremony in the Great Hall at Parliament House in Canberra.
* The 20th Asia Media Summit kicked off on Tuesday in northwest Cambodia, with a focus on digital transformation and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI).
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns that the last lifelines keeping Gazans alive are collapsing as the humanitarian system is being impeded, undermined and endangered, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced on Monday that the administration has released over 230,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK).
* Iranian and Russian naval forces launched a joint maritime drill in the Caspian Sea on Monday, Tasnim news agency reported. The three-day exercise, CASAREX2025, is hosted by Iran's Northern Fleet, and includes vessels from both navies. Representatives from several Caspian littoral states attended as observers.
* The Pentagon confirmed Monday that the 700 U.S. Marines deployed to counter the anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protests in Los Angeles last month would withdraw.
* Russian forces launched an overnight group strike on Ukraine's military-industrial complex and the infrastructure of military airfields, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.
* Romania's Ministry of National Defense has signed a 2-billion-euro (2.33 billion USD) framework agreement with Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. for the purchase of advanced SHORAD-VSHORAD air defense systems, the ministry announced on Monday.
* Hungary and Serbia will construct a new oil pipeline between the two countries to enhance energy security and preserve the results of Hungary's utility cost reduction measures, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto said here on Monday.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday voiced strong opposition to any division of Syrian territory, following the end of heavy clashes in the country's south, Turkish media reported.
* Twenty-eight countries and the European Union Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management issued a joint statement on Monday, condemning Israel for the suffering of civilians in Gaza.
* The World Health Organization (WHO) said the Israeli military attacked its staff residence and main warehouse in Gaza on Monday, a move the agency said severely undermined its ability to operate in the region and accelerated the collapse of the local health system.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Monday highlighted the necessity to take immediate actions to stop Israeli "crimes" in Gaza and the West Asia region.
* Israel's military said it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israeli territory early Tuesday morning. The missile triggered air raid sirens across central Israel.
* Iran "cannot give up" its nuclear enrichment program which suffered major damage in recent U.S. airstrikes, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi told U.S. media on Monday.
* The Malian army announced Monday that it had killed Souleymane Ag Bakawa, a leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, also known as "Soldat," during an operation in the Tinfadimata area in northern Mali.
* NASA and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have scheduled the launch of their joint Earth-observing mission for July 30, NASA announced Monday.
* New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.9 percent in the March 2025 quarter, driven largely by a surge in energy sector emissions, the statistics department Stats NZ said on Tuesday.
* Brazil's financial market lowered its inflation forecast for 2025 from 5.17 percent to 5.1 percent, marking eight weeks of downward adjustment in a row, the country's central bank said Monday.
* Indonesia's oil lifting (post-sale production) in the first half of this year reached 578,000 barrels per day (bpd), falling short of the state budget target of 605,000 bpd, according to Djoko Siswanto, head of the Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Task Force, on Monday.
* Da Afghanistan Bank, Afghanistan's central bank, announced on Tuesday that it has collected a total of 1.009 billion afghani (over 14.6 million USD) of worn-out banknotes and incinerated them in the capital Kabul.
* The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) announced its 2026 direction on Monday, highlighting a quality-first strategy in a move toward sustainable and balanced growth in the Southeast Asian country's vital tourism sector.
* At least 221 people have been killed and 592 others injured across Pakistan as heavy monsoon rains triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents since late June, the country's disaster management authority has said.
* The Philippines has been bracing for heavy rainfall as two low-pressure areas may develop into tropical depressions within the next 24 hours, the state-run weather bureau, PAGASA, said Tuesday.
* Southern Italy is bracing for what could be the hottest weather of the year, with temperatures forecast to reach extreme levels in the coming days, raising concerns over power grid stability, wildfire risk, and public health.
* Indonesian authorities announced that the country's western region is currently on high alert for forest and land fires, with Riau province reporting the highest number of hotspots.
* Unrelenting high temperatures have triggered water and electricity shortages across large parts of Iran, with several cities issuing yellow weather alerts, Iranian media reported on Monday. In Tehran province, thermometers climbed as high as 45 degrees Celsius on Sunday.
* The death toll from the crash of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft on a school and college campus on Monday has risen to 27, with 25 of the victims being children.
* A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the Avacha Bay area off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, as the region continues to experience aftershocks following a series of powerful quakes over the weekend, local authorities reported.
