* A modern China with a huge population is an opportunity, not a threat, for the United States, China's Ministry of Commerce reported commerce vice minister Wang Shouwen as saying on Saturday as trade talks were held in the city of Tianjin.
* The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has made multiple military inspections lately concerning the country's artillery force training, navy construction and weapons production, state media said on Sunday.
* Thousands of people demonstrated across France on Saturday against Emmanuel Macron's decision to pick centre-right politician Michel Barnier as prime minister, with leftist parties accusing the president of ignoring election results.
* National legislatures have a key role in charting the course for artificial intelligence (AI) and assuring cyber-security going forward, according to a statement agreed Saturday by representatives from the Group of Seven (G7) countries at the close of a summit in Italy.
* Brazil can no longer represent Argentina's diplomatic interests in Venezuela, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said in a statement released on Saturday. The statement said the decision was based on evidence that the Brazilian mission had been used for "planning terrorist activities."
* Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia has left the country for asylum in Spain, the Venezuelan government said on Saturday.
* Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country's defense ministry announced on Saturday. In a press conference, defense minister Edmundo Novillo said the national emergency would allow the country to quickly coordinate international support.
* The head of the CIA, who is also the chief U.S. negotiator seeking an end to the Gaza war and release of hostages held by Hamas, said a more detailed ceasefire proposal would be made in the next several days.
* Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called "the growing threat of expansionism" from Israel.
* Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, medics said on Saturday, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory.
* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Saturday urged countries and international institutions to prevent the recurrence of Israel's "war crimes" in the West Bank.
* A top Iranian military commander said on Saturday his country had, some time ago, hit 12 Israeli vessels north of the Indian Ocean and elsewhere in response to Israel's attacks on 14 Iranian ships, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Saturday their air defenses have successfully shot down an American MQ-9 drone over the northeastern province of Marib.
* The U.S.-British coalition launched late Saturday three air strikes on the eastern Ibb governorate in southern Yemen, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported Sunday.
* Three Lebanese paramedics were killed and two others wounded, one critically, in an Israeli attack while they were extinguishing fires in the southern town of Faroun, Lebanon's health ministry said on Saturday.
* Russia's Gazprom said it would ship 41.9 million cubic metres of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday, a volume broadly in line with recent days.
* South China's island province of Hainan began gradually resuming maritime and air transportation after being struck by Super Typhoon Yagi, which left four dead and 95 injured.
* Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed at the U.S. state of New Mexico early Saturday after a journey of approximately six hours from the International Space Station (ISS), with no astronauts on board, as two astronauts were forced to remain in space until next year due to a technical malfunction.
* Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Saturday a package of economic measures that will be implemented over the next year as part of a wider "road map to 2027."
* Saudi Arabia's real gross domestic product decreased 0.3% year-on-year in the second quarter, estimates by the government's statistical authority showed on Sunday.
* Around 2.5 million children aged under 5 years are the focus of a national polio vaccination campaign launched Saturday in Kindia in eastern Guinea, according to official sources.
* Visiting World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Saturday vowed to mobilize international efforts to support Sudan's health system, according to a statement by the Sudanese Health Ministry.
* The United States has confirmed a new human case of avian influenza A ("H5 bird flu") in the state of Missouri, also the first human case without a known occupational exposure to sick or infected animals, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
* The death toll from dengue fever in Bangladesh so far this year is nearing the 100 mark, official figures showed. The Bangladeshi government Saturday confirmed another 3 deaths from dengue fever, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country since January to 95.
* The extreme heat during the summer has taken its toll on Croatia as the extremely hot weather has increased heat-related deaths, wildfires, severe drought as well as a marked rise of sea temperature.
