* Thai authorities said on Sunday that more than 205 houses were damaged in the southern province of Satun struck by torrential rain and storms.
* An official from Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority confirmed on Sunday that a total of 161 people have been killed and 137 others injured in rain-related incidents since July across the country due to the current monsoon-triggered heavy rainfalls.
* Russian telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Sunday that it had sent Google a letter asking it to stop the promotion of unauthorized (illegal) rallies on its subsidiary YouTube.
* British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has accepted an offer from his Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar to meet in Dublin for talks over Brexit and Northern Ireland, reported local semi state-owned media RTE on Sunday.
* A fire at a day care center in the US state of Pennsylvania killed at least five children on Sunday, according to local authorities.
* Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that intervention of some extra-regional countries in the Gulf region only makes the problems more complicated.
* Libya's UN-backed government on Sunday accused the rival east-based army of breaking a UN-proposed humanitarian truce in the capital Tripoli by firing rockets on civilian areas.
* The British government said on August 11 that it will launch an urgent investigation into a major power cut that affected nearly one million people and sparked transport chaos in England and Wales on August 9.
* Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Sunday called for the end of war and the return of viable peace in his militancy-battered country.
* The United Nations announced on Sunday that the fighting between forces of the Yemeni government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) left around 40 people dead and 260 others injured.
