* U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said late Monday that she had secured enough support from Democratic delegates to become the party's nominee for the presidential election in November.
* Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison said on Monday the Democratic Party (in the U.S.) will deliver a presidential nominee by Aug. 7 and is committed to an "open and fair" nominating process.
* President of Estonia Alar Karis approved the composition of the new government headed by Kristen Mihal on Monday. Earlier on Monday, the parliament of Estonia (Riigikogu) gave Mihal the authority to form the government.
* Rwanda's National Electoral Commission on Monday confirmed Paul Kagame of the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) as the winner of the July 15 presidential election with more than 99 percent of the vote, according to the final results.
* The We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) coalition, the second largest group in Bulgaria's National Assembly, refused the president's proposal to form a government on Monday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for more efforts to protect children from human trafficking, in a message for the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, observed annually on July 30.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for reform of the international financial system which he described as "outdated, dysfunctional and unfair."
* Palestinian factions including rivals Hamas and Fatah agreed to end their divisions and form an interim national unity government during negotiations in China that ended on Tuesday, China's foreign ministry said.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang has signed a decree of the State Council to unveil a set of rules for implementing the country's Law on Guarding State Secrets, which will take effect on September 1.
* The Kremlin on Tuesday said that Russia's cooperation with China in the Arctic was not aimed against any other country and said U.S. criticism of such work was misplaced.
* The Kremlin on Tuesday called a European Union plan to use interest earned on frozen Russian assets to fund military aid to Ukraine "theft" and said it would take legal action against anyone involved in the decision.
* Foreign and defence ministers from Japan and the United States will hold security talks on July 28 that for the first time will cover "extended deterrence", a term used to describe the U.S. commitment to use its nuclear forces to deter attacks on allies.
* Russia and Iran have completed the preparation of a comprehensive cooperation agreement, the state-run TASS news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the Russian Foreign Ministry.
* Russia's southern region of Belgorod is restricting entry from Tuesday to 14 areas on the border with Ukraine that are subject to heavy attack from Kyiv's forces, measures that appeared to be part of a Kremlin strategy to set up a border buffer zone.
* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will visit the Czech Republic in September, his office said on Tuesday.
* The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia would like to see Turkey and Syria improve their ties when asked about a Turkish newspaper report that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would hold talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow.
* French President Emmanuel Macron and International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach called on Monday for a global truce during the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris.
* Poland may suspend the transport of goods through Belarus if Minsk fails to take action to normalize relations between the two countries, a Polish deputy foreign minister said on Monday.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told families of hostages held in Gaza that a deal that would secure their release could be near, his office said on Tuesday, as fighting raged in the battered Palestinian enclave.
* Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday that should Europe adopt an independent approach to its foreign policy, its relations with Tehran would improve.
* Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian and Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Monday called for the expansion of bilateral relations during a phone call.
* A joint naval drill kicked off on Monday in the Caspian Sea to ensure shipping security and safety in the region, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported.
* More than 39,090 Palestinians have been killed and 90,147 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, the Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday.
* The European Union said on Sunday that it has inaugurated newly constructed facilities at the General Dhagabadan Training Center (GDTC) in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 872 migrants were intercepted and returned off the coast of Libya during the week that ended on July 20.
* Tunisia on Monday sent the first ship loaded with 1,609 tons of food and medical aid to the Palestinians in Gaza, reported the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP).
* The World Health Organization said on Tuesday there was a high risk of the polio virus spreading across the Gaza Strip and beyond its borders due to the dire health and sanitation situation in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.
* The Armed Forces of Malta (AFM) on Monday night rescued three workers on an oil tanker passing through Maltese territorial waters.
* China created a total of 6.98 million new urban jobs in the first half of the year, official data showed Tuesday.
* India will set up a 10 billion rupee ($119 million) venture capital fund to expand its space sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday, as the country sets its sights on a larger share of the global space market.
* The Australian government has approved new gas exploration in waters off the country's south and west coasts.
* Singapore's core inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) eased to 2.9 percent year-on-year in June from 3.1 percent in May, according to official data released Tuesday.
* In the first five months of 2024, Romania produced over 1.132 million tonnes of oil equivalent (TOE) of crude oil, a 3.8 percent decrease compared to the same period last year, according to the newest data from the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
* German exports to countries outside the European Union (EU) continued to fall in June, declining by 2.6 percent month-on-month to 58 billion euros (63.2 billion USD), according to the country's Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on Monday.
* The actual unemployment rate in Latvia fell to 6.5 percent at the end of June, down 0.1 percentage points from a month earlier, according to a labor force survey released by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) on Monday.
* New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions for industries and households decreased by 2.7 percent in the March 2024 quarter, according to the statistics department Stats NZ on Tuesday.
* Kenya has submitted an economic repair plan to the International Monetary Fund and it expects the fund's board to review it for approval at the end of August, the country's chief minister told a parliamentary panel.
* A fast-growing wildfire in Southern California, western U.S. state of California, has destroyed three homes and damaged four others in Riverside County, authorities said on Monday.
