* Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday announced a cabinet reshuffle after two senior ministers said they planned to retire at the next election.
* A senior Iranian lawmaker said over 300 foreign guests would attend the swearing-in ceremony of Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian, which is scheduled for Tuesday.
* The 31st ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) foreign ministers' meeting was held in Vientiane (Laos) on Saturday, calling for enhancing cooperation on ferry safety.
* Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met in Vientiane (Laos) on Satuday to exchange views on bilateral relations, agreeing to maintain communication at all levels and further implement the important common understandings reached at the San Francisco meeting last November between the two heads of state.
* The United States will unveil a major revamp of its military command structure in Japan and other measures to deepen defence ties with its Asian ally at high-level security talks in Tokyo on Sunday, a U.S. official said.
* U.S. President Joe Biden intends to present a significant proposal aimed at reforming the Supreme Court on Monday, the Politico cited two people familiar with the matter as saying Friday.
* Three tanks at an oil storage depot in Russia's Kursk region caught fire as a result of a Ukraine-launched drone attack, acting regional Governor Alexei Smirnov said on Sunday.
* Austrian authorities have dismantled a terrorist network involved in raising funds for the Islamic State (IS) organization and arrested nine suspects, the country's interior ministry said on Saturday.
* The Czech Republic plans to spend over 3.6 billion Czech crowns (154 million USD) in the next three years to boost social security following last year's Charles University shooting.
* Pakistan's Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police have arrested 38 terrorists in the eastern Punjab province in July, the police have reported.
* A rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people including children on Saturday, Israeli authorities said, blaming Hezbollah and vowing to inflict a heavy price on the Lebanese group.
* Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Israel was approaching an all-out war against Hezbollah and Lebanon after a rocket attack on a football ground in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed ten people on Saturday, Axios reported.
* Iran warned Israel on Sunday against what it called any "new adventure" in Lebanon, in a statement issued by foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani.
* Several primary medical centers in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip were closed due to the Israeli army's demand for evacuation, Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday.
* Iranian Caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock exchanged views on Germany's closure of Islamic centers in the European country in a phone call on Saturday.
* The Turkish parliament passed a motion on Saturday for the deployment of Turkish Armed Forces elements to Somalia, including the maritime jurisdiction areas of the country.
* A total of 1,284 inmates at Makala Central Prison in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), will be granted conditional release to ease the prison's overcrowding, DRC State Minister for Justice Constant Mutamba announced Saturday.
* Mali's northern Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border, after the army said it had lost two soldiers but killed some 20 rebels.
* NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has discovered a spotty, arrowhead-shaped rock with features that could hint at microbial life billions of years ago on Mars.
* Health officials in India's western state of Gujarat said Saturday that the death toll due to suspected infection of Chandipura virus has risen to 48. Over the past several weeks, there has been a steady increase in cases of Chandipura virus in the state.
* A Russian Su-34 fighter jet crashed in the Volgograd region in southern Russia during a scheduled training flight on Saturday, said the Russian Ministry of Defense.
* At least seven people were killed in a stampede during a concert held on Saturday in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), reported the national television RTNC.
* At least 12 people were killed as a result of heavy torrential rains and floods that swept through Kassala State in eastern Sudan, Sudan's Health Minister Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim announced in a statement on Saturday.
* A glacial flood in southern Iceland inundated a ring road on Saturday, causing a section at one end of the nearby bridge to give way and tear apart, the country's meteorological office said in a statement.
