* Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit welcomed on Saturday the resolution recently adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) supporting the Palestinian bid to become a full UN member.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Saturday presided over a State Council executive meeting that studied the work on effectively lowering logistics costs in the whole society and reviewed and adopted an action plan on the digital transformation of the manufacturing sector.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday approved the structure of Russia's new government, which will consist of one first deputy prime minister and nine deputy prime ministers.
* Iraqi Oil Minister Hayan Abdul Ghani said on Saturday that his country would not agree to renew oil production cuts in the forthcoming OPEC+ meeting, scheduled for early next month in Vienna.
* South Korea is readying plans for a support package for chip investments and research worth more than 10 trillion won ($7.30 billion), the finance minister said on Sunday, after setting its sights on winning a "war" in the semiconductor industry.
* Japan is set to destroy 77 percent of the COVID-19 oral medications it purchased as they remain unused, local media reported.
* A refinery got on fire in southwestern Russia following a Ukrainian drone crash on it in the early hours on Sunday, said local authorities.
* Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early on Sunday, after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, health officials said.
* Host to 500,000 refugees from neighboring Sudan, Chad needs food security and nutrition aid for one-third of its own 18 million population, UN humanitarians said on Friday.
* At least 13 civilians were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in Gezira State in central Sudan, a resistance committee announced on Saturday.
* The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state has climbed to 136, the local civil defense government body said on Saturday, up from 126 in the previous day, while another 125 people remain unaccounted for.
* Flash floods caused by heavy rains have devastated villages in northern Afghanistan, killing 315 people and injuring more than 1,600, authorities said on Sunday, as villagers buried their dead and aid agencies warned of widening havoc.
* Fifteen people have been killed with dozens of others injured after flash floods hit Agam Regency in Indonesia's West Sumatra province on Saturday evening, according to the national disaster management agency BNPB.
* Iraqi security forces have dismantled two international rings engaged in human and drug trafficking and arrested 40 foreigners across the country, Iraqi media reported on Saturday.
