* Tourism ministers from the Group of 77 (G77) and China on Friday called for sustainable development of the tourism industry during a meeting held in Havana, Cuba.
* United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to violence in Sudan after meeting Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye in Bujumbura, the economic hub of Burundi, Friday.
* Envoys from Sudan's warring military factions - the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces - were in Jeddah for talks on Saturday, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said, as international mediators pressed for an end to the three-week old conflict.
* The Philippines' Bureau of Immigration on Saturday ordered its officers at airports to strictly monitor Filipinos departing for Southeast Asian countries to prevent them from falling victim to human traffickers.
* Cambodia on Friday dispatched the ninth batch of 244 peacekeepers, including 30 women, to join a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping operation in war-torn Central African Republic.
* Turkey will move its embassy in Khartoum to Port Sudan following gunfire on the Turkish Ambassador's car, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday urged people to continue to get COVID-19 vaccines, though the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 pandemic no longer a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.
* The death toll in the ongoing violence in India's northeastern state of Manipur rose to 54 on Saturday, according to the New Delhi-based Press Trust of India (PTI). The authorities are tightlipped over the death toll in the ongoing violence and have not issued any official statement.
* The parliament speakers of Iran and Uzbekistan on Saturday stressed the importance of enhancing the economic and transportation cooperation between the two countries, according to the ICANA news agency of the Iranian parliament.
* Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Isa Zarepour said Iran will help Syria build communications satellites, official news agency IRNA reported on Friday.
* India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday sounded an alert in the wake of a cyclonic circulation formed and lay over the southeast Bay of Bengal and neighborhood, forecasting heavy rainfall from next week over Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
* Japan's central prefecture of Ishikawa on Saturday remained on high alert for aftershocks and rain after a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck the area the previous day, leaving one dead and 22 others injured.
* Serbia will implement strict measures to improve general safety and regain the feeling of security after the country saw two shootings, which left 17 dead and over 20 wounded in just 48 hours, the country's President Aleksandar Vucic said at an extraordinary press conference in Belgrade on Friday.
* Two Palestinians were killed on Saturday morning by Israeli soldiers during clashes in a refugee camp in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
* As of Wednesday, about 2.53 million new jobs had been created for Chinese college graduates this year via an employment promotion campaign, said the Ministry of Education on Saturday. The ministry launched the campaign last November, with 2,415 universities and colleges participating in the initiative.
* Under new rules proposed by the Swedish government, job seekers from non-European Union (EU) countries will need to secure a higher minimum wage than before if they wish to obtain a work permit in the country, according to the government on Thursday.
* Ukraine's foreign reserves renewed their 11-year-high to reach 35.94 billion USD as of May 1, up by 13 percent since April, the country's central bank said on Thursday.
* Fitch Ratings has downgraded Egypt's sovereign credit rating to B from B+, its outlook for the most populous Arab country remains negative. Fitch's rating is now on par with S&P Global Ratings, which lowered Egypt's credit outlook to "negative" last month.
* Cyprus' inflation rate fell for a ninth consecutive month to 3.7 percent year-on-year in April, the lowest level since peaking at 10.6 percent in July 2022, the Statistical Service of Cyprus (CYSTAT) said on Thursday.
* Lebanese Energy Minister Walid Fayyad on Friday signed contracts with 11 private sector companies to build solar power plants with a capacity of 15 megawatts per station, the National News Agency reported.
