* Finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) countries have agreed to impose a price cap on Russian oil, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement Friday, without specifying implementation details.
* Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that his country can play a facilitator role regarding the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, his office said on Saturday.
* France must stick to an independent foreign policy and build more balanced partnerships for multilateralism, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday during an ambassadors' conference.
* An estimated 70,000 people protested in Prague against the Czech government on Saturday, calling on the ruling coalition to do more to control soaring energy prices and voicing opposition to the European Union and NATO.
* The US forces established a third military base in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
* Fatalities have been reported as migrants tried to cross the US-Mexico border in some border sections in south central US state Texas, authorities said.
* Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece on Saturday of occupying islands in the Aegean Sea that have a demilitarised status, and said Turkey was prepared to "do what is necessary" when the time comes.
* Iran has equiped 51 of its cities and towns with civil defence systems to thwart any possible foreign attack, a senior defence official said on Saturday, amid an escalation of tensions with Israel and the United States.
* The Singapore purchasing managers' index (PMI), an early indicator of manufacturing activity, edged down 0.1 points from the previous month to remain on expansion at 50 this August.
* The Philippines' debt reached 12.89 trillion pesos (about 226.97 billion USD) at the end of July, 0.8 percent higher than the debt incurred in June, the Philippine Bureau of Treasury said on Saturday.
* Germany's gas supply situation is currently guaranteed but the situation is tense and further deterioration cannot be ruled out, the country's network regulator said after Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM extended an outage of the Nord Stream 1 pipeline.
* The Swedish government on Friday called for decoupling gas from the electricity pricing system, as this would lead to lower electricity prices.
* For the second time in five days, NASA on Saturday halted a countdown in progress and postponed a planned attempt to launch the debut test flight of its giant, next-generation rocket, the first mission of the agency's moon-to-Mars Artemis program.
* Most residents of the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen went into a weekend lockdown on Saturday as mass COVID-19 testing kicked off in much of the city of 18 million people.
* India's daily COVID-19 caseload Saturday increased to 7,219, taking the total tally to 44,449,726, according to the federal health ministry's data released on Saturday.
* Russia recorded more than 50,000 new daily COVID-19 cases for the second day running on Saturday, the government's coronavirus task force said.
* Britain's medicines regulator on Saturday approved Pfizer PFE.N/BioNTech's 22UAy.DE updated bivalent COVID-19 booster shot for people aged 12 years and older.
* Zimbabwe's measles outbreak has so far claimed 685 lives, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday, more than four times the cases reported almost a fortnight ago even as a nationwide vaccination program continues.
* Japan's weather agency said the country has just experienced its second-hottest summer on record, after seeing record-breaking temperatures in many parts of Japan.
* Tropical storm Earl in the Atlantic is continuing west-northwestward and should pass north of the Leeward Islands, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Saturday.
* The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 of them children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation of near unprecedented scale.
* Al Shabaab militants killed at least 18 civilians and destroyed trucks laden with relief food in an overnight attack in Somalia's central region, residents and a state news agency said on Saturday.
