* White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Malta this weekend, a U.S. official said on Sunday, as the world's two largest economies seek to stabilize troubled relations.
* Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), met with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on Saturday during his visit to the country's Far East city of Vladivostok, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday.
* Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Sunday highlighted the role of global trade and warned against using it as a weapon.
* Armenia and Azerbaijan could conclude a peace agreement by the end of the year and Yerevan is doing everything for that to happen, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said, Russia's TASS state news agency.
* Barring International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors assigned to Iran is a right the country is exercising under the bilateral safeguards agreement, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Saturday.
* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday visited the Italian island of Lampedusa, which is struggling with a surge in migrant arrivals, and promised a 10-point EU action plan to help Italy deal with the situation.
* Iran on Saturday defended its move to bar some U.N. nuclear inspectors, and accused the United States, Britain, France and Germany of politicising the IAEA watchdog, state media reported.
* Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, three West African Sahel nations ruled by military juntas, signed a security pact on Saturday promising to come to the aid of each other in case of any rebellion or external aggression.
* Ethiopian forces engaged in fierce clashes with al Shabaab fighters near the town of Rab Dhuure in western Somalia on Sunday morning, local residents said.
* A Maltese rescue team found hundreds of dead bodies on a beach in the flood-stricken Libyan city of Derna on Friday, the Malta Civil Protection Department said on Saturday.
* Malaysia has attracted a total of 132.6 billion ringgit (28.4 billion USD) worth of approved investments in the services, manufacturing, and primary sectors from January to June 2023, its government said on Sunday.
* China's National Meteorological Center on Sunday issued a blue alert for rainstorms, as heavy downpours are expected to lash parts of the country.
