* At least 13 Cambodian people died and 71 others were injured in border clashes with Thailand, a Cambodian defense spokesperson said Saturday. According to Thai media, the border clashes started for the third day on Saturday morning after the Cambodian side opened fire against Thai troops.
* Cambodia said on Saturday that a total of 536 schools in border provinces have been shut down due to an ongoing border conflict between Cambodian and Thai soldiers.
* The Thai Air Force sent 2 F-16s and 2 Gripens fighters to attack Cambodian military targets on Saturday, the Thai Public Broadcasting Service reported.
* Thai media reported on Saturday that the Thai army had sent letters to 26 countries through its military attachés abroad, briefing them on the situation along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
* Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has collected enough signatures to call a general meeting that will hold Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru accountable for the party's recent crushing election loss, local media reported.
* Peace talks and the settlement of the Ukraine crisis have never been on the West's real agenda, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Saturday.
* The United States will send close to 200 letters to its trading partners on trade tariffs in the coming days, U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday.
* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Friday that she will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday to discuss transatlantic trade.
* French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz issued a joint declaration on Friday urging an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the unconditional release of all hostages, and the lifting of restrictions on humanitarian aid.
* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday welcomed France's announcement to officially recognize the State of Palestine, calling it a "courageous step" that will help promote peace and preserve the two-state solution.
* More than 100 British members of parliament (MPs) on Friday urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to recognize the State of Palestine, following French President Emmanuel Macron's announcement a day earlier that France would officially recognize the Palestinian state.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday presided over a State Council executive meeting, where attendees were briefed on the current progress of flood and drought prevention and control efforts, as well as the work plan for the next stage.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to achieve sustainable economic growth, welcoming the upgrade of the country's sovereign credit rating by S&P Global to B- from CCC+.
* As of July 1, 2025, the poverty level in Uzbekistan has fallen further to 6.8 percent, the presidential press service said in a statement Friday. By the end of 2024, the poverty rate in Uzbekistan had decreased to 8.9 percent, according to previous official data.
* The Sri Lankan government has decided to waive visa fees for 40 additional countries to boost tourism, a senior minister said on Friday.
* Myanmar is working to accelerate its digital transformation with the implementation of the Myanmar Digital Economy Roadmap 2030, the state-owned daily Myanma Alinn reported on Saturday.
* Australia and the United Kingdom (UK) on Saturday signed a 50-year commitment to the AUKUS defense treaty despite the United States' ongoing review of the pact.
* The Lao government is actively working on disaster relief efforts to assist victims of natural disasters this year, and is strengthening measures to prepare for future emergencies.
* The Sri Lankan authorities' economic reform program is yielding commendable outcomes with real GDP growing by 4.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, outperforming expectations, Evan Papageorgiou, mission chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Sri Lanka, said on Friday.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that he may speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump this week to explore the possibility of holding a summit in Istanbul.
* Belarus is hosting a large-scale exercise involving its radio technical troops, with the aim of enhancing the readiness and operational capabilities of its air defense forces, the Belarusian defense ministry said Friday.
* Lithuania's Department of National Minorities has called for a balanced approach to the growing public debate over Russian language use, urging respect for ethnic minorities while promoting Lithuanian learning.
* Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, on Friday warned of a deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, calling for urgent measures to avert further hunger-related deaths.
* Egypt and Qatar pledged on Friday to continue mediation efforts to end the war in Gaza.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Friday that it had killed a Hamas counter-intelligence commander in a strike in the northern Gaza Strip.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement on Friday that Israel is considering new ways to release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza.
* A senior Hamas official said Friday that they had been informed by the mediators that the Israeli delegation would return next week to continue negotiations over the Gaza ceasefire.
* Gaza-based health authorities on Friday reported nine additional deaths from hunger and malnutrition in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of related fatalities to 122 since the start of the ongoing conflict in October 2023.
* Iran and Saudi Arabia on Friday highlighted the necessity to take practical and immediate actions to halt Israel's ongoing military offensive against Palestinians, according to a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry.
* Syria's foreign affairs authorities announced Friday that Damascus has reached a joint agreement with the United States and France aimed at accelerating the political transition process and reinforcing national stability, particularly in the country's northeast and the southern Sweida province.
* Yemen's pro-government forces said Friday they had repelled a large-scale attack launched by Houthi militia targeting military positions in the northern province of Saada.
* African Union (AU) troops backed by Somali security forces on Friday thwarted an attack on military bases by a militant group in Sabiid-Anole town, located southwest of the capital Mogadishu.
* At least eight people, namely five civilians and three assailants, were killed and 13 others were injured in a "terrorist" attack Saturday morning on the building of the justice department in Iran's southeastern city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan province, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
* China's fiscal expenditure expanded 3.4 percent year on year to nearly 14.13 trillion yuan (about 1.98 trillion USD) in the first half of 2025, official data showed Friday.
* The Sri Lankan government aims to boost tea exports to 2.5 billion USD by 2030 as part of a new five-year plan for the tea industry, a minister told journalists on Saturday.
* Cambodia attracted a total of 3.36 million international tourists in the first half of 2025, a year-on-year rise of 6.2 percent, said a Ministry of Tourism report released on Saturday.
* Zambia will receive about 184 million USD from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the global lender concluded the fifth review of the country's economy under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) supported program.
* Afghanistan has exported 50 tons of fish feed from northern Balkh province to Tajikistan for the first time, a move that underscores the country's growing regional trade ambitions, the state-owned Bakhtar News Agency reported on Saturday.
* At least 30 Filipinos are now known to have died in the southwest monsoon enhanced by three tropical cyclones that triggered flash floods and landslides in the Philippines since last week, a Philippine government agency said on Saturday.
* Multiple wildfires erupted across Greece on Saturday, placing enormous strain on firefighting resources as the country endures one of the most intense heatwaves in recent years.
* Serbia's national weather service has extended its high-temperature warning as a persistent heatwave continues to grip much of the country, with maximum temperatures ranging from 35 to 42 degrees Celsius and local peaks expected to reach up to 43 degrees Celsius on Saturday.
* Romania is facing one of its driest agricultural years in over a century, with rainfall far below normal levels, the head of the National Meteorological Administration (ANM) said on Friday.
* A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia's eastern North Maluku province early Saturday, the country's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency reported. The quake occurred at 04:30 a.m. Jakarta time Saturday (2130 GMT Friday), with the epicenter located 104 kilometers southwest of Doi Island in North Halmahera Regency, at a depth of 58 kilometers beneath the seabed.
