* The UN General Assembly on Tuesday resumed its 10th emergency special session on the issue of Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with member states deliberating a draft resolution introduced by the State of Palestine.
* Russia reserves the right to take asymmetric measures in response to U.S. sanctions targeting Russian journalists, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said on Wednesday.
* AUKUS partners Australia, Britain and the United States said on Wednesday they are in discussions with Canada, Japan and New Zealand about potential collaboration on defence technology projects.
* Indonesia and Peru have agreed to intensify the third round of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations, which began on Tuesday and will continue until Friday in Jakarta.
* At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Malaysia's King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar will pay a state visit to China from Sept. 19 to 22, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying announced Wednesday.
* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk is expected to arrive in Pakistan on Wednesday for a two-day official visit, the Foreign Ministry of Pakistan said on Tuesday.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will depart for New York on Sunday to attend and deliver a speech at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 79), the official news agency IRNA reported Tuesday.
* China's commerce minister said the European Union's imposition of tariffs on electric vehicles (EV) will "seriously interfere" with trade and investment cooperation and hurt both China and Germany.
* Americans looking to renew their passports will be able to do so online starting on Wednesday as the beta phase of the program that has been running for two months will be opened nationally, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
* The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a political and economic union of 15 countries, is considering the adoption of a regional action plan to combat plastic pollution, an official said Monday.
* U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on Sudan's warring parties to re-engage in negotiations to end a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months.
* UN humanitarians said on Tuesday that for the first time in four weeks they were able to reach Northern Gaza, leading an inter-agency assessment mission to Gaza City.
* The China-Laos Railway has so far handled over 10 million tonnes of imported and exported goods since it was put into operation in December 2021, according to local authorities. The goods were valued at about 40.77 billion yuan (about 5.74 billion USD) in total as of Monday, customs data showed Tuesday.
* The European Union (EU) will introduce 12 duty-free import quotas for Norwegian seafood covering a period from May 2021 to April 2028. The EU-Norway deal is part of an agreement for the European Economic Area (EEA) and Norway Grants, the Norwegian government said in a press release on Monday.
* The German government and its partners have pledged to invest around 12 billion euros (13.3 billion USD) in venture capital by 2030 to support young startups for their innovations, according to a joint declaration made at a startup summit in Berlin on Tuesday.
* The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has carried out raids across the country after infiltrating a messaging platform used for criminal communications.
* Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others who included fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant held a security assessment meeting at the HaKirya military base in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, following deadly pager explosions in Lebanon allegedly carried out by Israel.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Tuesday directed the dispatch of medical teams to Lebanon for urgent assistance following the deadly pager explosions allegedly carried out by Israel.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II on Tuesday warned of the dangers of the ongoing Israeli war in the Gaza Strip and escalating violations in the West Bank.
* U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hopes to advance efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza as well as strengthen bilateral ties with Cairo when he visits Egypt on Wednesday amid concern about escalating Middle East tensions.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday said that 299 migrants were intercepted and returned off the coast of Libya in the past week.
* Attempts by terrorists to attack a gendarmerie complex in Bamako, the capital of Mali, have been thwarted and the situation is under control, the Malian Ministry of Security and Civil Protection said Tuesday.
* An estimated 3.4 million children under five are at high risk of deadly epidemic diseases in Sudan, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday in a statement.
* At least 30 civilians have been killed since a wave of violence hit northwest Mexico's Sinaloa state on Sept. 9, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Tuesday.
* At least four bandits were killed and 20 hostages rescued by Nigerian troops during separate anti-terror raids in the northwestern state of Kaduna early Tuesday, local authorities said.
* At least 40 people were killed earlier this week after a bus-truck collision in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kaduna, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu's spokesman said on Tuesday.
* Thailand's cabinet approved a stimulus program worth 145.5 billion baht (around 4.36 billion USD) on Tuesday, aiming to support vulnerable groups and boost consumption in the southeast Asian country's economy.
* Indonesia recorded its 52nd consecutive month of trade surplus in August, amounting to 2.90 billion USD, the Statistics Indonesia (BPS) announced on Tuesday. This figure is higher than the previous month but lower than the same period last year, which was 3.12 billion dollars.
* France's central bank, Banque de France (BdF), said on Tuesday that France's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow by 1.1 percent in 2024.
* Canada's job vacancies fell by 59,000, or 9.2 percent, to 582,600 in the second quarter (Q2) of this year, marking the eighth consecutive quarterly decline from the record high of 983,600 reached in the second quarter of 2022, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.
* New Zealand's current account deficit widened by 269 million NZ dollars to 7.2 billion NZ dollars in the June 2024 quarter, according to the statistics department Stats NZ on Wednesday.
* About 9,000 foreign tourists visited Afghanistan over the past 12 months, data from the country's Ministry of Information and Culture showed on Tuesday.
