* China on Tuesday (September 3) issued a white paper to introduce its approach to nuclear safety. Titled "Nuclear Safety in China," the white paper was released by the State Council Information Office to elaborate on China's basic principles and policies in the field, share the concepts and practices of regulation, and clarify its determination to promote global nuclear safety governance and the actions it has taken to achieve this, according to the document.
* British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday (September 1) night outside 10 Downing Street that there are no circumstances in which he will ask the European Union (EU) to delay his country's departure from the bloc. In a defiant message, he said he wanted "everybody to know we are leaving on 31 October, no ifs or buts."
* The Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) on Monday slammed Israeli procedures that seek to expand the construction of illegal settlements on the Palestinian territories. President of the AIPU and Jordan's Lower House Speaker Atef Tarawneh said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks on imposing "Jewish sovereignty" on all colonies in the West Bank is likely to lead to more violence, according to a statement by the union.
* US Vice President Mike Pence has met with Polish President Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Warsaw on Monday, one day after taking part in the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. They talked about very important topics connected to their current and future cooperation.
* Russia and Iran have confirmed their continued commitment to the Iran nuclear deal, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
* Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Monday said continued Israeli settlement activities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem reveal that US peace efforts are fake. The ministry's remarks came against the backdrop of a new Israeli decision to confiscate around 85 acres of land in East Jerusalem town of Shufat to expand roads in a settlement named Ramat Shlomo.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said that France has supported the organization's health services in Libya.
* The Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Hakim Monday said that the Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit will pay a visit to Baghdad on Tuesday. The meeting will discuss the developments in the Arab world, means to reduce tensions in the Gulf area, and the latest attacks on some regional countries.
* The Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder has welcomed a declaration by G20 members on Monday committing to a human-centered future of work policy priorities.
* The Libyan navy on Monday rescued more than 100 illegal immigrants off the country's western coast. The immigrants are of different Arab and African nationalities, including 13 women and eight children.
* Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute on Monday signed a decree declaring the troubled Northwest, Southwest and Far-North regions "economic risk zones."
* The Libyan Civil Aviation Authority announced Monday that air traffic at Mitiga International Airport in Tripoli have been suspended for security concerns until further notice.
* Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, president of the Romanian Senate, announced his resignation at the Senate's plenary meeting on Monday after the party he led withdrew from the ruling coalition last week.
* German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay an official visit to China from September 6 to 7 at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang announced in Beijing Monday.
* UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the Ebola epidemic remains a serious public health crisis for people in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo), but also for the country in general.
* Denmark's Ministry of Defense on Monday announced the US$194 million purchase of an advanced system for tracking submarines.
* Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze on Monday announced his resignation in a Facebook statement. Bakhtadze, who has held the post since June 2018, said he decided to resign because he fulfilled the mission of creating a strategic development framework for the country, which was the main purpose of his appointment as the prime minister.
* Israeli army said Monday its military chief met with the force commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), a day after hours-long intense fighting between Hezbollah and Israel along the Lebanese border.
* The Iranian Navy used missile-launching warships and helicopters as well as navy commandos on the second day of the ongoing war games in the Caspian Sea on Monday, Tasnim news agency reported.
* The death toll from a massive car bomb explosion in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul has risen to 16 while 119 others were wounded, the Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
* Eight people have been confirmed dead and four bodies recovered by authorities on Monday, with 26 people still missing, after a dive boat caught fire off the Santa Cruz Island in Southern California, USA, a local official said Monday.
* At least five persons died when a major fire broke out at a gas processing unit of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) plant in India's south-western state of Maharashtra on Tuesday morning, media reports said. The corporation confirmed the fire, but didn't comment on the loss of human lives.
