* Cambodia said on Saturday that the Thai armed forces have fired mortars at a Cambodian military base in Preah Vihear province. On the same day, Thailand's army said its troops responded under strict protocols after Cambodian forces fired small arms and grenade launchers towards Thai positions.
* More than 900,000 Gabonese voters went to the polls on Saturday for legislative and local elections aimed at ending the transitional institutions established after the Aug. 30, 2023 coup.
* The UN Security Council on Friday failed to adopt a resolution that would have extended the 2015 Iran nuclear deal for six months to allow time for diplomacy. The draft resolution, tabled by China and Russia, won four votes in favor and nine votes against, with two abstentions, failing to get the nine positive votes required for adoption.
* The Russian Foreign Ministry official responsible for European Union affairs has criticized the bloc for its "hysteria" over unidentified drones entering its territory, saying the sole aim is to justify an increase in military spending, according to the state-owned RIA Novosti news agency on Saturday.
* Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo and European Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius on Friday agreed that construction of a "drone wall" along the European Union (EU)'s eastern border should begin soon.
* Hungary on Friday firmly rejected a claim by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Hungarian reconnaissance drones may have violated Ukraine's airspace.
* China is willing to work with Russia to elevate their energy cooperation, making greater contributions to ensuring the energy security and sustainable development of both countries and the world at large, Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang said on Friday while he is co-chairing the 22nd meeting of the China-Russia Energy Cooperation Committee with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak in Beijing.
* The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) met on Friday with scientists and technicians in the nuclear field as he guided an important consultative meeting related to the production of nuclear materials and weapons, state media said Saturday.
* The White House has warned federal agencies to brace themselves for a wave of layoffs if Congress does not come to an agreement to keep the government funded before Oct. 1.
* The Pakistan Army and the Russian Armed Forces are conducting a joint counterterrorism exercise, "Druzhba-VIII," from Sept. 15 to 27, Pakistan's Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday.
* The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) General Assembly voted on Saturday to reinstate the full membership rights of the National Paralympic Committees of Belarus and Russia.
* Iran has recalled its ambassadors to France, Britain and Germany, collectively known as the E3, following their launch of a mechanism to reinstate international sanctions on Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Friday that his country's cooperation agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) would be gone if UN sanctions were to return.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck a high-rise building in Gaza City on Friday, which it claimed contained Hamas lookout posts to coordinate and execute attacks against IDF troops in the area.
* Iran's top security official Ali Larijani on Saturday backed Hezbollah's call for closer ties with Saudi Arabia during a visit to Beirut, framing regional cooperation as crucial to countering Israel.
* At least 48 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as the Israeli army continues to deepen its military operation in the neighborhoods of Gaza City, according to Gaza's civil defense authority.
* Turkish security forces destroyed 144 caves, shelters and hideouts used by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in operations across 30 provinces over the past six months, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Saturday.
* South China's Guangdong Province initiated a Level-IV emergency response, the lowest in China's four-tier warning system, Saturday as Bualoi, the 20th typhoon of this year, rapidly approaches.
* More than 4.2 million people have been affected by monsoon floods in Pakistan's Punjab province, with southern districts bearing the brunt, according to a rapid needs assessment released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) on Friday.
* French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has said that the government is aiming for a public deficit of about 4.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2026, while maintaining the objective of bringing the shortfall to 3 percent by 2029.
* Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.2 percent in July, after edging down 0.1 percent in June, said Statistics Canada on Friday. This first increase in four months was predominantly driven by expansion in the goods-producing industries, said the national statistical agency.
* The Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) approved four foreign investment projects and 15 local ventures on Friday, state-owned daily The Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Saturday.
* Cyprus on Friday announced a significant new natural gas discovery, saying two adjacent fields confirmed in its exclusive economic zone contain an estimated 8 to 9 trillion cubic feet of reserves, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said.
* India's iconic monument of love, Taj Mahal, has emerged as the country's most visited tourist destination, attracting 6.9 million visitors, including over 600,000 foreign tourists, in 2024-25, an official report released on Saturday said.
* Mexico's exports rose 4.7 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2025, fueled mainly by manufacturing shipments, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) said Friday.
* Iraq's Oil Ministry announced on Saturday the resumption of crude oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region through the Iraq-Türkiye pipeline, following a suspension that lasted two and a half years.
* The revenues of the Suez Canal, a major source of foreign currency for Egypt, have dropped by some 9 billion USD over the past two years due to a challenging regional environment, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Friday.
