* Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has endorsed a new cabinet with Srettha Thavisin serving as the prime minister and finance minister, a royal gazette said on Saturday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping soon, following earlier reports that he planned to visit China in October.
* Denmark has decided to cap the number of Russian diplomats allowed at the Copenhagen embassy to five and administrative staff to 20, forcing Moscow to cut its staffing, the Danish foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
* Armenia and Azerbaijan said on Friday that they had sustained casualties in fighting around their common border, northwest of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
* The White House said on Friday that it is still pursuing "viable diplomatic solutions" to the situations in Gabon and Niger.
* Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arevalo on Friday called on the public to "unite" behind his government after the suspension of his party by electoral authorities sowed doubts about the transition.
* Kazakhstan will hold a referendum to decide whether to build its first nuclear power plant, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Friday, adding that the date would be decided later.
* A Polish helicopter did not cross the Belarus border on Friday, a Polish military operational command spokesman said, denying a claim from Minsk that such an incursion took place.
* More than 100 people were injured in violent clashes in Tel Aviv between Eritrean government supporters celebrating an Eritrea Day event and opponents of President Isaias Afwerki.
* Pakistan witnessed a sharp rise in militant attacks in August, with 99 incidents reported across the country, the highest monthly number since November 2014, the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) said on Friday.
* Hundreds of Haitians set up camp around the main square of the capital city on Friday, in a sign of deepening chaos as fresh overnight attacks by armed gangs pushed already displaced people further downtown.
* More than 100 people were injured in violent clashes between Eritrean protesters and the Israeli police in Tel Aviv on Saturday, said Israeli emergency services.
* The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has confirmed that India successfully launched its maiden solar mission named "Aditya-L1" on Saturday, onboard the PSLV-C57 rocket (in XL configuration).
* Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Friday that Iran is ready to build power stations with a capacity of 2,000 megawatts in Lebanon to help the country overcome its electricity crisis.
* At least 16 Palestinians were injured during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Palestinian security and medical sources said on Friday.
* More than 100 people were injured in violent clashes between Eritrean protesters and the Israeli police in Tel Aviv on Saturday, said Israeli emergency services.
* Without lifesaving aid, nearly 1 million children under 5 in Mali face acute malnutrition by December this year, with at least 200,000 people threatened with starvation, a UN spokesman said on Friday.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency, on Friday called for tangible actions to address climate change and human mobility challenges ahead of the Africa Climate Summit, which begins in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Sept. 4.
* U.S. job growth picked up in August, but the unemployment rate jumped to 3.8% and wage gains moderated, suggesting that labor market conditions were easing and cementing expectations that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates this month.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday again called on the central bank to lower interest rates, after the monetary authority kicked off an easing cycle with a 50-basis-point cut to a still restrictive 13.25% last month.
* Myanmar exported 59,971 tons of rice and broken rice in August, according to data released by the Myanmar Rice Federation (MRF) on Friday.
* Austria's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 1.1 percent in real terms year on year in the second quarter (Q2) of this year, logging the country's first quarterly economic contraction in the past eight quarters, Statistics Austria said on Friday.
* Iraq exported about 106.12 million barrels of crude oil in August, generating 8.85 billion USD in revenue, announced the country's Oil Ministry on Friday.
* Whaling ships in Iceland can resume the hunting of giant fin whales from September, following a two-month suspension by the government to assess whaling practices.
* For the first time ever, Spain welcomed over 10 million foreign tourists in July as the tourism sector completed its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) said on Friday.
