* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for the use of every means to eliminate the nuclear threat.
* Chinese General Secretary and President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed concerted efforts to forge ahead determinedly toward a new victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
* More than 2,500 delegates from around the world are gathering in Montreal, Canada, to secure the highest possible standards in global aviation with a focus on its continued recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic.
* The head of the World Trade Organization said on Tuesday the 164-member body can negotiate more ambitious deals, such as on agriculture, climate change and internal reform by its next major meeting, after concluding a series of trade deals in June.
* Countries need to ramp up spending dedicated to cutting methane emissions in order to rapidly slash greenhouse gases and meet global climate goals, John Kerry, US special presidential climate change envoy, said on Tuesday.
* The World Bank has raised its growth forecast for Cambodia to 4.8 percent this year, up from its April projection of 4.5 percent, despite worsening global demand and rising commodity prices.
* The World Bank on Tuesday raised Malaysia's 2022 economic growth forecast to 6.4 percent from 5.5 percent previously.
* The border between Venezuela and Colombia was formally reopened Monday, after a symbolic act led by Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Venezuelan ministers at the Simon Bolivar Bridge linking the two countries.
* A right-wing coalition scored a broad victory in Italy's general election to form a new parliament on Sunday, official results showed Monday evening. As vote counting concluded in 99 percent of polling stations across the country, nationalist Brothers of Italy was put at 26 percent of the vote, according to data provided by the Interior Ministry.
* US Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the Koreas on Thursday in a bid to show Washington's commitment to the Republic of Korea's security, according to US and the RoK officials.
* French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday called for the resumption of dialogues between Armenia and Azerbaijan to solve their ongoing border conflict.
* Iranian riot police and security forces clashed with demonstrators in dozens of cities on Tuesday, state media and social media said, amid continuing protests against the death of young Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody.
* The European Central Bank (ECB) expects economic activity in Europe to slow down substantially in the coming months, due to skyrocketing prices, decreased spending power and overall uncertainty, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Monday.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Monday to "use all means" to protect Türkiye's rights and interests against Greece.
* Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Monday urged his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid to prove his support for the two-state solution by stopping settlement building and ending the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip.
* A United Nations body has begun global talks to hammer out a consensus on reducing airline emissions in the face of lingering discord over climate change and the impact of war in Ukraine.
* Three leaks have now been detected on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines in the vicinity of the Danish island of Bornholm, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) said in a press release on Tuesday.
* France is drafting legislation to streamline bureaucracy around nuclear power projects and aims to start construction of its first next-generation EPR2 reactor before May 2027, an energy ministry official said on Tuesday.
* Egypt posted an increase of 85.4% in tourist arrivals in the first half of 2022, with 4.9 million tourists visiting the country, the national statistics agency CAPMAS said on Tuesday.
* New Zealand's tourism recovery is on its way with international visitor arrivals reaching the highest level since the borders were closed in March 2020, Tourism Minister Stuart Nash said on Tuesday.
* Pakistani President Arif Alvi said on Tuesday that the tourism sector played a vital role in the country's economic development and is an integral source of income for the people as well as relevant to the improvement of civic facilities in the far-flung areas of Pakistan.
* France will continue its energy tariff shield costing 16 billion euros (15 billion USD) in the country's 2023 budget bill, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and Minister Delegate for Public Accounts Gabriel Attal announced on Monday.
* The European Commission has approved a positive preliminary assessment of Italy's request for a disbursement of 21 billion euros under the recovery fund on Monday.
* A high-ranking Iranian military commander said a homegrown over-the-horizon (OTH) radar with a range of 3,000 km will soon become operational in the country, semi-official Mehr news agency reported Tuesday.
* Niger has temporarily stopped issuing authorisations for oil product deliveries to neighboring Mali unless they are destined to the United Nations peacekeeping mission there, the government said.
* The total death toll from this season's monsoon rain and flood since mid-June has risen to around 1,638 along with 12,865 injured in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said on Monday night.
* The death toll from the sinking of an overcrowded ferry carrying Hindu devotees in northern Bangladesh climbed to 61 on Tuesday, with many passengers still missing two days after the disaster.
* An estimated 503,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico on Tuesday after Hurricane Fiona hit on Sept. 18 and caused an island-wide power outage for its 3.3 million people.
* Democratic Republic of Congo has declared the end of its latest Ebola virus outbreak in the eastern province of North Kivu, Health Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda said in a statement on Tuesday.
* A cholera outbreak that has claimed 29 lives in Syria is posing a danger across the frontlines of the country's 11-year-long war, stirring fears in crowded camps for the displaced who lack running water or sewage systems.
