* China is ready to work with ASEAN countries to implement the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 (CAFTA 3.0) and build an even closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future, foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Tuesday.
* Thailand's cabinet approved a new round of economic relief measures on Tuesday, utilizing up to 42.69 billion baht (about 1.28 billion USD) from the emergency loan decree to navigate a prolonged global energy crisis.
* The French government on Tuesday unveiled a new aid package to help households and key sectors cope with surging fuel prices, with the measures expected to have a budgetary cost of around 450 million euros (513 million USD).
* Cambodia on Wednesday hosted the International Conference on Combating Online Scams, aimed at sharing best practices and strengthening global cooperation against this growing threat. In his keynote address, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet emphasized that online scams constitute a cross-border regional issue rather than a single-country problem.
* The United States, Denmark and its autonomous territory of Greenland on Tuesday signed a deal in New York to expand the U.S. military presence on the strategic island. At a ceremony on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the agreement was inked by U.S. President Donald Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen.
* Danish and Greenlandic leaders welcomed the new security agreement signed Tuesday by the United States, Denmark and Greenland, while Greenland's leader cautioned that rebuilding public trust in Washington would take time.
* Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodriguez said Tuesday that she had concluded a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. Rodriguez said on X that the talks covered strategic areas from strengthening bilateral relations to advancing cooperation in energy, mining and security.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, held three-hour talks with Iranian officials on the sidelines of the UN General Debate in New York.
* U.S. President Donald Trump is open to meeting Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian or other Iranian officials on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud held a phone conversation on Tuesday, stressing that political and diplomatic efforts are the only path to defuse the ongoing crisis across the Middle East.
* The European Union (EU) on Tuesday extended Ukraine-related sanctions against more than 3,000 individuals and entities for another three years. Three individuals and one entity were removed from the list.
* Rwanda and Belgium on Tuesday jointly decided to restore diplomatic relations, according to a statement released by Rwanda's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
* Portugal will sign a joint declaration of intent to join the European Union's cross-border testing network for autonomous vehicles next week, state secretary for mobility Cristina Pinto Dias announced Tuesday.
* Britain will provide defensive air-to-air refueling support to Saudi Arabia in response to recent attacks by Yemen's Houthi group, the BBC reported on Monday.
* Lithuania has secured natural gas supplies from the United States for 10 years, covering about 40 percent of the country's household gas demand, Lithuania's Ministry of Energy announced Monday.
* Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday his participation in the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will be an opportunity to elaborate on the country's positions and the realities in the West Asia region.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday conveyed the country's "decisive positions" regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to the United States, state-run IRIB news agency reported.
* Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Israel would not withdraw from its current positions inside Gaza until Hamas was removed and the enclave was demilitarized, tying any further pullback to conditions Israel says have not yet been met.
* Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh on Tuesday accused the Israeli government of turning Palestinian cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank into "mass detention camps."
* Yemen's Houthi group said Tuesday that Saudi warplanes carried out 19 airstrikes across three Yemeni provinces over the past 24 hours, while Houthi-run media reported at least 17 killed and 11 wounded in recent strikes.
* Nearly 130,000 people have been displaced across seven governorates in Yemen due to escalating insecurity, with many of them having been displaced multiple times, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday.
* China's tourism performance industry maintained steady growth in 2025, with box office revenue reaching 17.44 billion yuan (about 2.58 billion USD), up 6.43 percent from 2024.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday revised Cambodia's growth forecast to 3.9 percent in 2026, down from 4.1 percent projected in July, reflecting weaker-than-expected activity in tourism and related services.
* Brazil cut its 2026 GDP growth forecast from 2.3 percent to 2.0 percent on Tuesday, while anticipating a more gradual interest rate-cutting cycle and weaker economic activity during the second half of the year.
* Singapore's core inflation rose to 2.2 percent year on year in August from 2 percent in July, reflecting higher services, retail and other goods, and food prices, official data showed Wednesday.
* Hungary's central bank will lower its medium-term inflation target from 3.0 percent to 2.5 percent from Jan. 1, 2028, the Monetary Council of the National Bank of Hungary (NBH) said Tuesday. The tolerance band of plus or minus 1 percentage point around the target will remain unchanged, the council said in a statement released after its monthly policy meeting.
* Greece's tourism receipts rose by 12 percent year-on-year to 13.52 billion euros (15.5 billion USD) in the first seven months of 2026, while the number of non-resident travelers visiting the country increased by 8.6 percent to 20.43 million, according to the latest data released by the Bank of Greece on Tuesday.
* At least 11 people, including a pregnant woman, were killed and three others wounded in a mass shooting in South Africa's southeastern KwaZulu-Natal Province late Tuesday, local media reported Wednesday.
* The death toll linked to measles and malaria in Ifanadiana District, southeastern Madagascar, has risen to 37, with children accounting for about 75 percent of the deaths, a health official said Tuesday.
* The death toll from a passenger ship that capsized and sank in Indonesia's Java Sea rose to 20 on Wednesday, with 115 people still missing and 108 survivors, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency.
* An extreme El Nino event could cause losses equivalent to at least 2 percent of Latin America and the Caribbean's GDP and plunge an additional 4.8 million people into poverty, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) warned Monday.
* The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has issued a travel safety advisory for tourists, as authorities have forecast heavy to extremely heavy rainfall across several parts of the country from Sept. 25 to 27.
* The present haze situation is expected to persist into early 2027 due to prolonged hot and dry weather resulting from the El Nino phenomenon, Malaysian Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Arthur Joseph Kurup said on Tuesday.
* Twelve people in Slovakia died as a direct result of extreme heat this year, nearly 10 times the annual average recorded over the 2016-2025 period, according to preliminary data released by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic on Tuesday.
