* Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev holds an early election on Sunday to extend his rule for another seven years, just months after changing the constitution to lift term limits that would have required him to step aside in 2026.
* Israel and Saudi Arabia are a long way from a normalization agreement that would involve a defense treaty and a civilian nuclear program from the United States, U.S. President Joe Biden said in a CNN interview broadcast Sunday.
* Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan agreed to enhance bilateral ties and cooperation in a wide range of areas, according to a joint statement on Sunday.
* Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni informed her Libyan counterpart Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah on Sunday that Italy has lifted its 10-year ban on Libyan civil aviation over Italian airspace, according to a statement.
* The Houthi group in Yemen has banned the entry of Swedish imports into the country's north, which is under its control, in protest against the burning of a Quran during a protest in Sweden.
* The Lebanese army on Saturday arrested 49 Syrian nationals at a northern checkpoint, foiling their attempt to illegally migrate by sea toward Europe, the National News Agency reported.
* The African Union's high-level delegation wrapped up their four-day visit to Somalia on Saturday to assess the first stage of a planned troop withdrawal, which it said was successfully concluded at the end of June.
* Ugandan Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja has underscored the importance of Kiswahili (Swahili language) in forging a sense of East Africanness and unity on the journey toward an integrated East Africa.
* At least 10 Tunisian migrants were missing and one died after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said on Sunday.
* Myanmar exported 156,917 tons of green beans in the first quarter of the current 2023-24 fiscal year, showed data released by the Ministry of Commerce on Saturday.
* Afghan Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs Mawlawi Amir Khan Muttaqi has downplayed the reports on the economic crisis, saying the economy of Afghanistan has been moving on the right track, reported the state-run Bakhtar News Agency on Sunday.
* U.S. Chevron Corporation and the Israeli company Ratio Energy, two of the three partners in Israel's largest gas field Leviathan, will establish a marine research center in collaboration with the University of Haifa (UH) in northern Israel.
* Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has called for the removal of trade barriers on the East African nation's border with Malawi to boost trade between the two countries, the presidency said late Friday.
* The Peruvian government declared a 90-day national health emergency Saturday due to an "unusual increase" of cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, which total 165 with four deaths.
