* Cavaye Yeguie Djibril, a senior member of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, Cameroon's ruling party, was reelected speaker of the country's National Assembly on Tuesday.
* UN humanitarian chief on Tuesday urged a renewed Gaza ceasefire and called on Israel to lift the blockade of life-saving aid and commercial supplies to the enclave, after the latest deadly Israeli airstrikes.
* Stable, healthy and sustainable China-U.S. economic and trade relations align with both nations' fundamental interests and will benefit enterprises worldwide, Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said during a meeting with the head of U.S. company PepsiCo.
* U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed in a phone call on Tuesday that the peace in Ukraine "will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire."
* Ceasefire talks on Russia-Ukraine conflicts are scheduled for Sunday in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah, said Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy to the Middle East, during an interview with Fox News, hours after a phone talk Tuesday between Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that even a partial ceasefire with Russia will be a positive result and will bring Ukraine closer to conflict resolution, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
* British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated the country's "unwavering support" for Ukraine in a phone talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday evening, according to a Downing Street statement.
* German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed on Tuesday that any peace negotiations regarding the conflict in Ukraine must fully involve the Ukrainian government.
* The Ukrainian Armed Forces have almost completely withdrawn from Russia's western Kursk region, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Tuesday.
* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday reaffirmed the European Union's (EU) commitment to Denmark's security and territorial integrity, including Greenland, during her visit to Copenhagen to discuss European security and defense.
* The EU recorded its highest level of gas imports from Russia in two years this January, purchasing a total of 1.9 billion euros (approximately 2.08 billion USD) worth of pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG), TASS news agency reported Wednesday.
* Additional sanctions will be imposed on Venezuela unless it accepts its repatriated citizens from the United States, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.
* Mexico is fast-tracking measures to protect local businesses from potential U.S. tariffs, Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday.
* Pakistan's high-level security meeting at the parliament has stressed the need for consensus and unified political commitment to curb the menace of terrorism by using full force, said a joint statement by the participants.
* Escalating violence in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has forced nearly 60,000 people to flee their homes in the past month, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.
* Cyprus Defense Minister Vasilis Palmas stated on Tuesday that the chances of finding more survivors from a refugee boat that capsized off the island's southeastern coast are "increasingly unlikely."
* Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday expressed deep concern over the renewed fighting in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire and urging all parties to prioritize peace and humanitarian aid.
* France has condemned the latest Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in over 400 deaths, and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities.
* Egypt, Kuwait and Bahrain warned on Tuesday that renewed Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip threaten regional peace and stability.
* Continued Israeli airstrikes on civilian and residential areas in Gaza could lead to broader instability in the enclave and pose a risk of escalating violence across the region, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
* The European Union (EU) is committed to Syria's unity, independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, EU representatives said in a joint statement with the Foreign Minister of the Syrian interim government, Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani, following Tuesday's conference on Syria in Brussels.
* Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda met in Doha on Tuesday during a sit-down mediated by Qatar, during which they voiced support for a ceasefire in the eastern DRC.
* The U.S. military conducted fresh strikes on Yemen's northern province of Saada on Tuesday night, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
* Malaysia recorded overall flood-related losses of 933.4 million ringgit (210.58 million USD) in 2024, up from 755.4 million ringgit in 2023, official data showed Wednesday.
* Japan booked a trade surplus of 584.5 billion yen (3.9 billion USD) in February, returning to the black for the first time in two months, government data showed Wednesday.
* Singapore's economy is expected to grow by 3.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2025, according to a survey released by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Wednesday.
* Sri Lanka's economy grew by 5.0 percent in the year 2024, reversing two years of contraction, data released by the Department of Census and Statistics (DCS) on Tuesday showed.
* Myanmar's foreign trade reached 25.79 billion USD in the first 11 months of the 2024-25 fiscal year, state-run daily Myanma Alinn reported on Wednesday.
* Pakistan's textile exports surged by 9.3 percent in the first eight months of the current fiscal year starting from July 2024 to June 2025, compared to the same period of the last fiscal year, officials said on Tuesday.
* As temperatures rise across Myanmar, the Ministry of Health has issued preventive and safety guidelines for the public, according to a statement released by the ministry on Tuesday.
