* The situation of the Cambodia-Thailand border has eased after a ceasefire took effect Monday midnight, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Tuesday morning.
* The Cambodian Ministry of National Defense on Tuesday rejected the statement of the Thai army that accused Cambodia of attacking Thailand hours after a ceasefire entered into force.
* One million women and girls in the Gaza Strip are facing mass starvation, violence and abuse, UN Women said in a statement on the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza on Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday in Scotland, where both agreed that urgent action is needed to bring an end to the suffering in Gaza, according to a statement from the British government.
* The Dutch government may take measures against Israel if agreements to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza are not upheld, Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced Monday in a statement on social media platform X.
* Australian Prime Minister (PM) Anthony Albanese has described Israel's denial of starvation in Gaza as "beyond comprehension." Addressing a meeting of his governing Labor Party in Canberra on Tuesday, Albanese criticized claims by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's deputy Ambassador to Australia, Amir Meron, that there is no starvation in Gaza.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, the Kremlin said in a statement.
* German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday urged a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza and said that Germany would immediately launch a humanitarian aid airlift. The announcement came after a meeting of the government's security cabinet.
* Kuwait announced Monday the launch of an air bridge to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, following a three-day donation campaign organized by the government last week.
* Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday urged the European Union (EU) to "diversify" the country's commercial relations, following the announcement of a new EU-U.S. trade agreement reached late Sunday.
* Portugal has raised concerns over the recently concluded tariff agreement between the European Union (EU) and the United States, describing it as a limited improvement that falls short of true free trade and comes at a steep cost for both sides.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday urged the United States to reconsider the proposed 50 percent tariffs on its goods set to take effect on Aug. 1, rejecting using the country's critical minerals as bargaining chips in trade negotiations.
* UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said Monday that the Syrian interim authorities must act professionally and with discipline.
* Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that the country currently has no plan for the resumption of nuclear talks with the United States.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to present to the Israeli security cabinet a plan to annex parts of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Monday night.
* At least 30 Palestinians were killed Tuesday in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting residential homes in al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, said a local hospital.
* Several top commanders and fighters of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) were killed in a series of airstrikes launched by the Nigerian military around the Lake Chad region, the armed forces said on Monday.
* Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged all-out efforts to ensure the safety of people's lives and property in the fight against floods and geological disasters caused by heavy rainfalls that are currently affecting some parts of China.
* Indonesia recorded a 13.6 percent year-on-year increase in investment realization, reaching 942.9 trillion rupiah in the first half of 2025, with 1.25 million jobs created, the Ministry of Investment and Downstreaming said on Tuesday. The increase was mainly driven by second-quarter investment, which reached 477.7 trillion rupiah.
* Kyrgyzstan had 45,500 registered unemployed individuals as of July 1, marking a 21.9 percent drop from the same time last year, according to official data released Monday.
* Some 88.5 million people in East and Central Africa were highly food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance at the end of June 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, said in a joint report released on Monday.
* According to a report released Monday by the National Statistics Institute (ISTAT), Italy's population - currently estimated at 59 million - will decline to 54.7 million by 2050 and further to 45.8 million by 2080, representing a 22-percent drop over 55 years.
* Republic of Korea's total population slightly rose for the second straight year thanks to a rapid increase in foreign residents, statistical office data showed Tuesday. The total population added 0.1 percent, or 31,000, from a year earlier to 51,806,000 on Nov. 1 in 2024, after inching up 0.2 percent in the previous year, according to the 2024 census by Statistics Korea.
* South Africa's mid-year population is estimated at 63.10 million in 2025, according to the latest Mid-Year Population Estimates report released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Monday. Black Africans account for the majority, numbering approximately 51.6 million, about 82 percent of the total population.
* A 26-year-old man from northwest Cambodia's Siem Reap province has been confirmed for H5N1 human avian influenza, raising the number of the cases to 14 so far this year, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Tuesday.
* China's national observatory on Tuesday continued to issue an orange alert for rainstorms, the second-highest level in its four-tier warning system, with this alert covering many parts of the country.
* Heavy downpour in many parts of India's Delhi led to chaos on roads as intense waterlogging adversely affected the vehicular traffic on Tuesday morning. Besides, many flights were also delayed due to the inclement weather.
* An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 jolted Macquarie Island region at 2210 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 57.81 degrees south latitude and 157.16 degrees east longitude.
* An earthquake measuring 6.3 magnitude on the Richter scale rocked off Indonesia's western Aceh province earlier Tuesday without prompting large waves, the country's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency said.
