* Polls opened to renew the parliament in Italy early on Sunday, in a snap election seen as crucial for the country.
* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a short-range ballistic missile into its eastern waters, the Republic of Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Sunday.
* Iran must deal decisively with protests which have swept the country after the death in custody of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic's morality police, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday.
* Super typhoon Noru made landfall in Quezon province, south of Manila, on Sunday afternoon, bringing heavy rain and severe winds to the Philippine capital and several areas on the main Luzon island.
* Flights were cancelled across Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday, airport operator Aena said, as storm Hermine moved in from over the Atlantic, bringing heavy rains to the popular holiday destination.
* Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that his government would deploy armed forces to assist in the recovery of the storm-hit eastern region.
* The Iranian foreign minister urged Washington to prove its determination and goodwill to reach an agreement on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal with realism, the official news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
* A Palestinian was killed and three others injured on Sunday by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
* The government of India's northeastern state of Assam will engage 250,000 volunteers as water messengers to create awareness on water preservation and related issues, state-run broadcaster All India Radio (AIR) reported on Sunday.
* Bahrain's gross domestic product grew 6.9% year on year in the second quarter of 2022, posting the biggest annual increase since 2011, Bahrain's Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa said on Twitter on Sunday.
* The International Monetary Fund confirmed on Sunday that a staff team will visit Ghana this week to continue discussions with the authorities on policies and reforms that could be supported by an IMF lending arrangement.
* Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland will postpone its scheduled presidential election to next year, rather than holding it in November when the incumbent president's term ends, the region's electoral body said on Saturday.
* Burundian Vice-President Prosper Bazombanza has called on member states of the East African Community (EAC) to join forces in promotion of tourism in the region, the EAC said in a statement late Saturday.
* At least 16 people were killed with 30 others still missing after a boat capsized in the Karatoya river in Bangladesh's northern Panchagarh district, 468 km away from the capital Dhaka, on Sunday afternoon.
