* The Indian government on Tuesday introduced the legislation ensuring 33 percent reservation for women in the parliament's lower house Lok Sabha and all states' legislatures, local media reported.
* Russia has withstood the unprecedented pressure from Western sanctions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.
* Senior officials of China, Japan and South Korea will hold talks in Seoul on Sept. 26, the South Korean foreign ministry said on Tuesday, working to stage the first summit of their leaders in four years.
* The Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has advised to minimize importing certain vegetables and other agricultural produce, to help boost the cultivation of these crops in Laos while also tackling inflation.
* The secretary of Russia's Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, on Tuesday discussed the situation on the Korean peninsula and in Ukraine with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, his office said, according to the RIA news agency. The men also discussed military cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, it said.
* The Indian government on Tuesday expelled a senior Canadian diplomat, asking him to leave the country within the next five days.
* Canada has expelled a top Indian diplomat for his alleged involvement in the assassination of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in the Canadian province of British Columbia in June, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said Monday.
* Russia on Tuesday urged Armenia and Azerbaijan to stop bloodshed in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan began mass artillery strikes on Tuesday.
* China and Zambia's finance ministers exchanged views on Zambia's debt issue and currency swap cooperation on Sept. 16, the Chinese finance ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
* Russia has made the decision to withdraw from the Barents Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC), the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
* Kiev will file a lawsuit to the World Trade Organization against Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over their decisions to extend a ban on grain imports from Ukraine, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday, citing a senior official.
* The president of the Dominican Republic said he would meet United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Wednesday to discuss a call from a U.N. expert to allow humanitarian supplies to pass through his country's shuttered border with Haiti.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in New York on Wednesday while they are attending the United Nations General Assembly, the office of the Brazilian presidency said on Monday.
* Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu held talks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in New York, seeking to advance economic cooperation between the two largest economies in Africa, his spokesperson said on Monday.
* French President Emmanuel Macron and British opposition leader Keir Starmer on Tuesday stressed the importance of strengthening the cooperation between the two countries as well as the need to guarantee economic and energetic security in Europe.
* Latvia's government decided on Tuesday to close one of its two Belarus border crossing points in a bid to prevent illegal immigration, Latvian news agency LETA and broadcaster LSM reported.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York on Monday and received an invitation from U.S. President Joe Biden to visit the White House, a State Department spokesperson said.
* Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will travel to China this week for a bilateral summit with his Chinese counterpart, the presidency in Damascus said in a statement on Tuesday.
* Houthi negotiators are planning to leave Riyadh on Tuesday after a five-day round of talks with Saudi officials on a potential agreement paving the way to an end to the eight-year-old conflict in Yemen, four sources familiar with the plans said.
* Nearly one year after the cease-fire to the conflict in northern Ethiopia, UN experts on Monday warned of ongoing atrocities.
* Renewed clashes in Sudan's South Darfur have put many more civilians on the run, especially from the fighting in Nyala city, UN humanitarians said on Monday.
* The U.S. Federal Reserve kicks off a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday with officials widely expected to keep interest rates on hold for now, but also flagging in new economic projections whether they feel rates still need to rise further before the end of the year.
* Cambodia's imports of oil and gas products totaled 2.28 billion USD during the January-August period this year, down 9.5 percent from last year, according to a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise on Monday.
* Thailand received over 19 million foreign tourists between January and mid-September, representing a 271-percent year-on-year increase, official data showed on Tuesday.
* Britain remains on course to have the highest inflation of leading rich economies in 2023, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development forecasts which showed the country's inflation problem widening compared with most of its peers.
* Malaysia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, on Tuesday maintained its crude palm oil export duty at 8 percent.
* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will grant Morocco a $1.3 billion loan, Morocco's state media reported on Tuesday.
* Bangladesh's trade deficit in July, the first month of the current 2023-24 fiscal year, dipped by 69.73 percent to 635 million USD year on year, according to the latest data from the central bank.
* The Beirut-based Union of Arab Banks on Monday called on Arab banks to provide 1 trillion USD to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
* The Libyan National Agency for Bridges and Roads said Monday that 70 percent of infrastructure in the floods-hit areas in eastern Libya was damaged.
* The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, on Monday provided Kenya with 8.95 million USD worth of equipment to help strengthen disease surveillance at border points.
* Chinese researchers have predicted that 2023 could become the hottest year on record while 2024 may be even hotter, based on the analysis of a dataset they have developed.
* India will receive heavy monsoon rains at the tail end of the four-month season, the chief of the weather office said on Tuesday, bringing farmers succour after the driest August in more than a century hit some summer crops.
* An intense spring heat wave sweeping across Australia's southeast raised the risks of bushfires, prompting authorities on Tuesday to issue the first total fire ban in nearly three years for Sydney and shut down several schools.
* Heavy rains in Yemen's western province of Hodeidah damaged the shelters for more than 900 internally displaced persons last week, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) on Monday.
* More than 1,200 children have died of suspected measles and malnutrition in Sudan refugee camps, while many thousands more, including newborns, are at risk of death before year-end, United Nations (U.N.) agencies said on Tuesday.
