* Kamala Harris's election campaign said on Sunday it has raised $200 million and signed up 170,000 new volunteers in the week since she became the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, as Republicans continued to hammer Harris over her work as vice president.
* South Korea will provide $400 million in financial support to small businesses hit by payment delays on two Qoo10 e-commerce platforms and the Singapore-based firm's founder pledged to use his own assets to help compensate customers and vendors.
* Despite the Lao government's efforts to address rising prices and inflation, the inflation rate in the Southeast Asian country remained high at 26.1 percent in July.
* Malaysia has applied to join the BRICS, Malaysian national news agency Bernama quoted Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as saying on Sunday.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang held talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Beijing on Sunday, with both sides vowing to promote pragmatic cooperation.
* Russia will take corresponding countermeasures if the United States deploys long-range weapons in Germany, President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
* The deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia would heighten regional security risks, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday, following his visit to Malaysia.
* Indian Foreign Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Sunday met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and held discussion on bilateral ties and regional and global issues.
* The foreign and defence ministers of the United States and Australia will meet in the U.S. on Aug. 6, the country's embassy in Canberra said on Monday.
* President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey might enter Israel as it had done in the past in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, though he did not spell out what sort of intervention he was suggesting.
* Some flights at Beirut airport have been cancelled or delayed, with Lebanon's Middle East Airlines (MEA) saying disruptions to its schedule were related to insurance risks, as tensions escalate between Israel and armed political group Hezbollah.
* Egypt stressed the importance of supporting Lebanon and "sparing it the scourge of war", the country's foreign ministry said on Sunday amid escalating tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah group.
* Thousands of Palestinians were displaced from the Bureij refugee camp and its outskirts in the central Gaza Strip following an Israeli evacuation order, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported on Sunday.
* All non-sporting activities will be suspended until further notice at sports venues in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a day after a stampede killed at least nine people during a concert at Stade des Martyrs, a main sports center in the national capital, Deputy Prime Minister for Interior Jacquemain Shabani said Sunday.
* The Turkish military has neutralized a total of 16 "terrorists" in operations in northern Iraq and northern Syria, the country's Defense Ministry said Sunday.
* Afghan Deputy Ministry of Borders, Ethnicities and Tribes Mohammad Ali Jan Ahmad said that the renovation and repainting of border signs and markers with neighboring Iran have been completed.
* SpaceX and NASA said on Friday they planned to launch the SpaceX Crew-9 mission, a crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS), no earlier than Aug. 18.
* The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) on Sunday reported that a second oil tanker had sunk off Bataan province, west of Manila.
* Bangladesh said it had restored internet services as conditions return to normal after students called off protests against reforms to job quotas that killed nearly 150 people this month.
* South Korea's total population rebounded in 2023 owing to a double-digit growth in foreign residents, statistical office data showed Monday. The total population added 0.2 percent, or 82,000, from a year earlier to 51,775,000 on Nov. 1 last year, after sliding for the past two years, according to the 2023 census by Statistics Korea.
* Myanmar earned over 175 million USD from fishery exports in over three months of the current fiscal year 2024-2025, according to the country's Ministry of Commerce on Sunday.
* In the first half of 2024, Uzbekistan produced 5.8 million tons of grain, an increase of 6.6 percent compared to the same period last year, according to the state statistics agency.
* The eighth China-South Asia Expo concluded Sunday, with domestic and foreign trade contracts worth a total value of over 8 billion yuan (about 1.12 billion USD) signed, according to the organizers.
* Compared to the last two years, Sri Lanka expects to see a significant increase in the number of local and foreign tourists visiting destinations managed by the Department of Forest Conservation this year, a minister said on Sunday.
* China's national observatory on Monday issued an orange alert for rainstorms, the second-highest level in its four-tier warning system, across parts of the country.
* Massive wildfires have been ravaging the western U.S. and southern Europe amid intense heatwaves this summer, with scientists warning that global temperatures have reached "uncharted territory."
* Power supply to around 30,000 houses in Latvia was disrupted on Monday morning due to storm damage, local news agency LETA reported.
