* Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will visit China from October 16 to 19, government spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday.
* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will pay a state visit to Britain in November following an invitation from King Charles, Buckingham Palace said on Tuesday.
* Romania plans to buy 32 latest-generation F-35 fighter planes from U.S. manufacturer Lockheed Martin LMT.N, for $6.5 billion, the defence ministry said on Tuesday, under a deal whose outline was announced in April.
* Britain will sign a memorandum of understanding on trade with the U.S. state of Washington, and is eyeing further agreements with bigger states such as Florida, Texas and California, its trade ministry said on Monday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Monday that his country has received U.S. Abrams battle tanks.
* Iran's atomic chief said on Monday that despite the unilateral cruel sanctions, the country will continue "peaceful" activities in the field of nuclear science and technology to promote the well-being of the Iranian people.
* At least 20 people were killed in an explosion at a fuel depot in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh on Monday, local Armenian authorities said.
* A cargo vessel set off from a Ukrainian Black Sea port on Tuesday after loading, an industry source said.
* Violations of a truce by forces of the Saudi-led coalition have not stopped and 12 Yemeni soldiers were killed in one month along Saudi borders, Yemen's Houthi movement said on Tuesday.
* Burkina Faso's military junta on Monday suspended the French news magazine Jeune Afrique for publishing "untruthful" articles that reported tension and discontent within the country's armed forces, it said in a statement.
* Mexico's government sent over 1,500 security officials including National Guard, army and police to the south of the country on Monday in a bid to shore up security in an area under increasing pressure from organized crime.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday signed an agreement to provide 140 million USD in loans to Cambodia to boost the caliber of the country's labor force and to enhance public service delivery.
* Laos recorded a trade deficit of 88 million USD in August 2023, according to the latest figures from the Lao Trade Portal website.
* South Korea's inflation expectations made no change for the second straight month in September, halting the downward trend this year, central bank data showed Tuesday.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday said it has approved a loan of 500 million USD to support Indonesia's development agenda and business reform priorities.
* Myanmar will implement a weather index-based crop insurance system for farmers, U Ye Min Aung, president of the Myanmar Rice Federation, told Xinhua on Monday.
* Bangladesh's imports fell heavily in the first two months of the 2023-24 fiscal year through next June, the latest official figures showed.
* Saudi Arabia on Monday launched a plan to turn the kingdom's highest peak into a tourism destination.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 543 illegal migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya in the past week.
* Ghana has seen positive outcomes from the economic reform programs supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the first four months of implementation, the governor of the Bank of Ghana said on Monday.
* Australia's Prime Minister (PM) has promised the nation will be prepared to the fullest possible extent for the upcoming bushfire season.
* Kenya on Monday announced that it has disbursed 338.62 million shillings (about 2.3 million USD) under the hunger safety net program (HSNP) in order to cushion households in drought-hit regions of the country.
* Guatemala's rainy season has claimed the lives of 32 people and left 16 others missing, the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (Conred) said Monday.
* An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 rocked Davao Occidental province in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
