* Russian President Vladimir Putin reshuffled the Russian Security Council on Monday, introducing several key new members.
* The Czech centre-right government's parliamentary majority was set to shrink after a junior party voted late on Monday to leave the ruling coalition following the dismissal of its leader as development minister.
* The General Debate of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) concluded on Monday, with UNGA President Philemon Yang calling on Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah to urgently conclude a ceasefire.
* Chinese authorities on Monday announced further measures that will help ease payment services for travelers who arrive in the country from overseas.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Monday, calling up 133,000 citizens for military service in autumn, according to a document posted on the country's legal information portal.
* President Joe Biden will keep the administration's target of accepting 125,000 refugees next year, according to a memo delivered to the U.S. State Department on Monday.
* NATO countries need to ramp up defence spending, incoming Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Tuesday, adding that the transatlantic bond in the alliance must be kept "rock solid."
* Chinese and U.S. health officials have agreed to strengthen communication, cooperation and coordination on global health affairs, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported late on Monday, following rare talks in Washington.
* OPEC+ is strategically reducing oil supply and ceding market share with a long-term view so that the producing countries secure enough investments, while oil prices suit both producers and consumers, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian emphasized on Monday the need to strengthen bilateral cooperation with Russia to counter the West's "cruel" sanctions.
* U.N. nuclear agency chief Rafael Grossi will go to Belarus on Tuesday for high-level talks in Minsk and to visit the country's nuclear power plant (NPP) in Ostrovets, the agency said.
* Arab countries ambassadors in Cyprus said they held an "emergency meeting" in Nicosia on Monday to discuss a joint plan to support Palestine and Lebanon.
* Israel said intense fighting erupted with Hezbollah in south Lebanon after its paratroops and commandos launched raids there, ahead of a widely expected ground incursion and after devastating airstrikes against Hezbollah's leadership.
* Yemen's armed Houthi group said in a statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV on Tuesday that they launched drone attacks against "military targets" in the Israeli area of Jaffa, and the port city of Eilat.
* The United Arab Emirates reaffirmed on Tuesday its unwavering position towards the unity of Lebanon, its national sovereignty, and its territorial integrity, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
* Jordan and Saudi Arabia on Monday expressed their support for Lebanon as Israel intensified its attacks on the country.
* A French helicopter carrier will arrive in the eastern Mediterranean in the next five to six days and take up position in case a decision is taken to evacuate foreign nationals from Lebanon, a French army spokesperson said on Tuesday.
* China's commerce minister and his American counterpart will hold a call in the near future, according to people familiar with this matter. They will have an in-depth exchange of views on bilateral economic and trade relations and key issues of mutual concern, including the restrictions on electric vehicles.
* U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome Powell said Monday that if the economic data stays stable, future rate cuts are expected to be smaller than the half-percentage-point reduction in September.
* The monetary policy tightening by the European Central Bank (ECB) played a part in dragging on the economy in the euro area that broadly stagnated since late 2022, the ECB president said on Monday.
* South Korea's export grew for the 12th straight month due to strong demand for locally-made semiconductors and automobiles, government data showed Tuesday.
* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Monday that the Cambodian economy is projected to grow by 5.5 percent in 2024, up from 5 percent in 2023, driven by a strong rebound in garment and agricultural exports and the ongoing recovery in tourism.
* Thailand's economic activity remained stable in August compared to the previous month, thanks to improved merchandise exports and slightly increased private consumption despite a slowdown in the tourism sector, the central bank said on Monday.
* Indonesia has received 391.8 billion USD in domestic and foreign investments over the last five years, according to Investment Minister Rosan Perkasa Roeslani on Monday. He said the sum was nearly twice that of the previous five-year period, which totaled 224.6 billion dollars.
* The Philippines' foreign investments yielded net inflows of 533.95 million USD in August, according to the data released by the Philippine central bank Monday night.
* The inflation in Germany continued to drop in September, edging down to 1.6 percent, according to provisional data released by the Federal Statistical Office on Monday.
* The gross domestic product (GDP) of the United Kingdom (UK) grew by 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2024, revised down from an initial estimate increase of 0.6 percent, official data showed on Monday.
* Slovakia registered a record trade surplus of 4.5 billion euros (5.04 billion USD) last year, the country's Statistics Office reported on Monday.
* Austria's gross domestic product (GDP) contraction for 2023 has been revised to 1 percent in real terms from the previously estimated 0.8 percent in February, Statistics Austria said on Monday.
* Abu Dhabi's economy grew 4.1% in the second quarter of 2024, according to preliminary government estimates, driven by non-oil sectors as the city-state accelerates efforts to diversify away from hydrocarbons.
* Sri Lanka will have detailed talks with the IMF on the framework of a $2.9 billion bailout programme on the sidelines of the lender's annual meetings in Washington later this month, the country's cabinet spokesperson said on Tuesday.
* Swiss glaciers melted at an above-average rate in 2024 as a blistering hot summer thawed through abundant snowfall, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Tuesday.
* Fifty schools have been temporarily closed due to severe flooding in northern Laos' Luang Namtha province, affecting almost 6,000 teachers and students in the province.
* The Bolivian government declared a national disaster Monday due to raging wildfires that have destroyed more than 7 million hectares of forest and grassland in the eastern region of Santa Cruz alone.
* The Nepali government decided on Monday evening to provide 200,000 Nepali rupees (1,497 USD) in compensation to each of the bereaved families, as the death toll from monsoon rain-induced floods and landslides hit 205.
