* Cambodia and Thailand reaffirmed to China their commitment to abiding by the ceasefire agreement at an informal trilateral meeting, according to a statement on the Chinese foreign ministry's website.
* The fourth plenary session of the 20th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee will be held in Beijing in October, according to a decision made at a CPC Central Committee Political Bureau meeting on Wednesday.
* The Chinese and Russian navies will hold a joint exercise in the sea and air spaces near Vladivostok, Russia, in August, said Zhang Xiaogang, spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense.
* Leaders of Indonesia and Malaysia met in Jakarta on Tuesday to discuss border issue and efforts to reduce the number of fishermen arrested in each other's waters.
* The United States should work with China to continue to enhance consensus, reduce misunderstandings, strengthen cooperation, further deepen dialogue and consultations, and strive for more win-win outcomes, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng said in Stockholm on Tuesday.
* China has introduced unilateral visa-free entry and mutual visa exemption agreements with 75 countries as part of its efforts to streamline visa rules and promote international exchange, an immigration official announced at a press conference on Wednesday.
* More than 36,000 nurses, midwives and health care assistants across New Zealand started a strike for 24 hours from Wednesday morning after negotiations on salary and staff recruitment failed with the authority.
* Australia will include YouTube in its world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 after initially granting the platform an exemption, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his 10-day "deadline" for Moscow to end the conflict with Ukraine is in effect, cutting short the 50-day timeline he announced two weeks ago.
* Germany is ready to step up for European security with the development of its brigade in Lithuania, German Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil said in Vilnius on Tuesday.
* Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warned on Tuesday that Poland could lose around 8 billion zloty (2.15 billion USD) as a result of new U.S. tariffs on European goods.
* A baseline tariff of 15 percent on European Union (EU) goods agreed by the bloc and the United States could slightly dampen the growth of the Czech economy, the Czech Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.
* The Dutch House of Representatives will cut short its summer recess to hold an emergency debate on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported on Tuesday.
* Downing Street issued a statement on Tuesday urging the Israeli government to take substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza and commit to a long-term, sustainable peace, or else the British government will recognise the State of Palestine in September, ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, to "protect the viability of the two-state solution."
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and visiting Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev held a meeting in Ankara on Tuesday over bilateral cooperation.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen on Tuesday evening.
* The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned on Tuesday against a gradual annexation of the Gaza Strip by Israel as a prelude to the displacement of its population.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Tuesday that 52 aid packages were airdropped earlier in the day across the Gaza Strip.
* More than 120 Syrian refugees returned to their homeland on Tuesday via the Masnaa border crossing in eastern Lebanon.
* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei rejected the claim that Iran had interfered in the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, according to a statement released by the Iranian Foreign Ministry early Tuesday.
* The Syrian interim authorities, in coordination with international organizations and local community partners, dispatched a fourth humanitarian aid convoy on Tuesday from Damascus to the southern Sweida province, according to state media.
* The latest hunger report confirms that Gaza is on the brink of famine, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday.
* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday lifted its global growth forecast in 2025 to 3 percent, 0.2 percentage point higher from its projection in April, according to an update to its World Economic Outlook.
* The Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced on Wednesday that nearly 1.8 million Afghan refugees have returned home from Iran over the past three months.
* The World Health Organization (WHO) and Pakistan's Ministry of Health signed an agreement on Tuesday to formalize the country's participation in the Global Platform for Access to Childhood Cancer Medicines, aiming to provide quality-assured, free-of-cost medicines to children suffering from cancer.
* The Philippines' total external trade in goods increased by 16.3 percent in June 2025 to 18 billion USD from 15.47 billion dollars in the same period of the previous year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Wednesday.
* Australia's annual rate of inflation fell to its lowest level in more than four years in the 12 months to June, according to official quarterly figures released on Wednesday.
* Singapore's total employment rose by 8,400 in the second quarter of 2025, according to preliminary data released Wednesday by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM), reflecting stronger hiring compared to the previous quarter but a decline on a year-on-year basis.
* The Board of the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 9.25 percent, effective from Tuesday.
* Malaysia's trade surged 9.2 percent year-on-year to a new high of 2.9 trillion ringgit (696 billion USD) in 2024, official data showed Tuesday.
* Authorities in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin Region on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in the Severo-Kurilsk District following a powerful earthquake and threat of further tsunamis.
* The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Wednesday warned residents in the coastal areas fronting the Pacific Ocean against "tsunami wave height of less than 1 meter," following a powerful earthquake that had hit Russia.
* An emergency mobile alert was issued to New Zealanders across the country on Wednesday afternoon following a powerful Russia earthquake.
* Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) on Wednesday issued a warning of a possible tsunami of less than 0.5 meters following a powerful earthquake in Russia. The agency said the possible tsunami could affect several coastal areas across Indonesia, with varying arrival times starting from midday.
* China on Wednesday issued a yellow alert for tsunami after an earthquake jolted the far offshore area east of the Kamchatka Peninsula at 7:24 a.m. Wednesday (Beijing Time).
* A total of 2,851 people from 771 households were evacuated in Myawaddy township of Kayin state due to flooding, according to the Myanmar Fire Services Department (MFSD) on Wednesday.
* A two-day Post-Earthquake Technical Forum opened on Monday in Nay Pyi Taw to review post-earthquake construction and renovation processes and prepare for potential technical challenges in the future, the state-owned daily The Mirror reported on Tuesday.
* A total of 2,267 people from 461 households were evacuated in four townships of eastern Myanmar's Shan state due to flooding, according to the Myanmar Fire Services Department on Tuesday.
* Spain's Military Emergency Response Unit (UME) has been deployed to assist firefighters battling a rapidly spreading wildfire in the province of Avila, northwest of Madrid.
* Wildfires, storms, earthquakes, and other natural disasters caused an estimated 131 billion USD in global economic losses during the first half (H1) of 2025, according to a report released Tuesday by German reinsurer Munich Re.
* More than 10,000 cases of dengue were reported in Bangladesh this month, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to over 20,000, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.
