* The speaker of Thailand's parliament has postponed a bicameral vote to select the country's next prime minister, local media reported on Tuesday, as a political deadlock drags on more than two months after a May general election.
* Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning to reshuffle his cabinet this week, likely replacing ministers deemed to have struggled in their posts or who are not planning on running again in the next election, two government sources said.
* Russia and nations taking part in this week's Russia-Africa summit will discuss Moscow's grain and fertilisers exports, Oleg Ozerov, ambassador at large at the Russian foreign ministry, told the state RIA news agency in remarks published on Tuesday.
* Japan and Italy will hold a joint fighter jet drill between Aug 2-10, Japan's Air Self-Defence Force (ASDF) said on Tuesday, a week after it announced a similar exercise with the French air force.
* A Russian delegation led by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu will visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to celebrate the 70th anniversary of "Victory Day" later this week in the communist state, the DPRK state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
* Israeli troops killed three Palestinian militants who opened fire on them from a car near the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Israel's defence minister and army said. The Palestinian health ministry confirmed that three people had been killed in the incident.
* The Belarusian ministry of emergency situations is completing the arming and military training of its personnel to be ready to aid the defence and internal ministries in the event of an armed conflict, the head of the emergency ministry said on Monday.
* Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has announced that the government will unveil a new tourism plan called "Visit Sri Lanka" in the upcoming months, a statement from the President's Media Division (PMD) said on Monday.
* The United Nations said on Tuesday it had started the removal of more than 1 million barrels of oil from a decaying supertanker off Yemen's Red Sea coast in a complex operation it hopes will ward off a regional disaster.
* The U.S. semiconductor industry faces a shortfall of roughly 67,000 workers by 2030, according to an industry association study published on Tuesday.
* India's July edible oil imports were set to jump to a record 1.86 million metric tons, nearly 60% more than normal, as refiners raised purchases to build stocks for festivals amid uncertainty over supplies from the Black Sea, dealers and cargo surveyors said on Tuesday.
* Russia's finance ministry plans to cut the discount it uses to set taxes on the country's crude oil exports to $20 per barrel from $25 currently, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in remarks published on Tuesday.
* Myanmar's foreign trade has reached over 9.7 billion USD in the first three months of the 2023-24 fiscal year, according to figures released by the Ministry of Commerce on Monday.
* German business morale deteriorated in July for the third month in a row, a survey showed on Tuesday, indicating that the road to recovery could be long for Europe's largest economy as it battles to emerge from recession.
* Plans to begin mining the seafloor for metals that could be used in the energy transition have been pushed back to at least next year after a meeting of the U.N.-backed regulator in Jamaica ended without agreement on how the industry would be regulated.
* Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has called for shared responsibility in tackling irregular migration issues, the official news agency MAP reported on Monday.
* Fighting in Sudan began 100 days ago and thousands of civilians have been killed or wounded and millions more displaced, UN humanitarians said on Monday.
* Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso declared on Monday a 60-day state of emergency in the country's three violence-roiled regions.
* Japan's weather agency said on Tuesday that high atmospheric pressure drove up temperatures to over 35 degrees centigrade across the Japanese archipelago.
* Uzbekistan is preparing for another heatwave with temperature rising to 44 degrees Celcius in some regions, the country's Center of Hydrometeorological Service said Monday.
* Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned of difficult days ahead on Tuesday as ministers met to discuss a response to wildfires that have destroyed homes and forced the evacuation of thousands of tourists from the island of Rhodes.
* Wildfires forced the closure of Palermo airport in Sicily on Tuesday as extreme weather continued to batter Italy, with severe storms causing damage and at least two deaths in the north of the country.
* The death toll from wildfires in northern Algeria has risen to 34, including 10 soldiers, the Interior Ministry said in an update on Monday.
