* Japan's junior ruling coalition partner Komeito officially endorsed Ishii Keiichi as the party's new chief at its convention on Saturday, marking the party's first leadership change in 15 years.
* Tunisia's Parliament approved a draft law on Friday modifying the country's electoral process, just days before the presidential election scheduled for Oct. 6.
* UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is gravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of events in Beirut, Lebanon, in the last 24 hours, his spokesman said on Saturday.
* The West continues to undermine global trust through unilateral actions that bypass the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday at the 79th session of the UN General Assembly.
* "Inaction means complicity," said Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi on Saturday at the ongoing 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, urging the world body to fulfill its obligations in dealing with the Mideast conflict.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said at the United Nations General Assembly that there would be no immediate truce in his country's rapidly escalating conflict with Lebanon.
* Iran on Saturday called on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to convene an emergency meeting to address the latest situation in Lebanon.
* Rescue crews on Sunday renewed the search for about 48 migrants missing since their boat capsized near the Spanish island of El Hierro in what threatens to be the deadliest such incident in 30 years of crossings from Africa to the Canary Islands.
* Japan's incoming prime minister, Ishiba Shigeru, said on Sunday the country's monetary policy must remain accommodative as a trend, signalling the need to keep borrowing costs low to underpin a fragile economic recovery.
* Switzerland's foreign affairs ministry voiced support for a Chinese-led peace plan to end the Ukraine war, saying on Saturday that its view on such efforts had significantly changed.
* India gave the go-ahead on Saturday for exports of non-basmati white rice to resume as inventories in the world's biggest exporter of the grain surge and farmers prepare to harvest a new crop in the coming weeks.
* The 21st China-ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO), which has drawn a record number of 3,300 exhibitors, concluded Saturday in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
* Israel struck multiple targets in Lebanon on Sunday, pressing Lebanese Hezbollah with more attacks after it struck a huge blow by killing the group's leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
* The Lebanese government is "doing its utmost" to confront the "destructive and hateful war" that Israel is waging against the country, Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Saturday.
* Thirty-three people were killed and 195 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said.
* Asked by reporters if an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon was inevitable, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that it was time for a ceasefire.
* Countries and anti-Israel factions in the Middle East on Saturday strongly condemned a previous Israeli attack that killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon.
* British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he had spoken with Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Saturday, following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut which killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
* France calls for an immediate cessation of Israeli strikes in Lebanon, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said on Saturday in a press release. The ministry also condemns any indiscriminate action against civilians in Lebanon.
* Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said on Sunday that militant groups would carry on confronting Israel with Tehran's help following the killing of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Iranian state media reported.
* Iran Air has cancelled all flights to Beirut until further notice, the airline's spokesman told local media including the Tasnim news agency on Saturday.
* Yemen's Houthi group claimed on Saturday that it had launched a missile attack on Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv in Israel.
* NASA and SpaceX launched on Saturday a new crew rotation mission from the U.S. state of Florida to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission, codenamed "Crew-9," carries NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov to ISS. It is NASA's ninth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX.
* The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group said it has approved a grant of 19.8 million USD to help South Sudan respond to the Sudanese refugee crisis in the country.
* South African police have launched an urgent manhunt after 17 people were shot and killed in the Eastern Cape Province of the country, said authorities Saturday.
* Up to 54 people were rescued on Friday from the roof of a flooded hospital in the southern U.S. state of Tennessee after tropical storm Helene battered the country's southeast region.
* Kenya's Ministry of Health on Friday evening confirmed another mpox case, bringing the total number of infections to eight as the government stepped up community awareness to curb stigma.
