Asia

YONHAP. ​​US armored units conduct routine exercises to rapidly deploy troops from the US mainland to South Korea.

The exercise reflects Washington's commitment to maintaining and developing the South Korea-US alliance. (Source: Army.mil)

TIMES OF INDIA. Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval meets former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Hindon Air Force Base, near Ghaziabad, bordering the capital New Delhi.

AFP. Delhi police have stepped up security around the Bangladesh High Commission in the Indian capital after Sheikh Hasina resigned as Bangladeshi Prime Minister.

REUTERS. Yemen's Houthi movement has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Gulf of Aden.

STRAITS TIMES. According to the German Research Center for Geosciences, an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 shook the southwest region of Sumatra island, Indonesia.

CHINA.ORG. In the first 6 months of 2024, Chinese prosecutors prosecuted 1,597 people in 668 cases for environmental pollution.

KOREA TIMES. A heat wave across South Korea has caused the number of people suffering from heat-related illnesses to rise to 1,546 from May 20 to August 3, up 10 cases from the same period last year.

Europe

BARRON'S. The 2024 Paris Olympics are expected to boost France's GDP growth by 0.3 percentage points in the third quarter of 2024, bringing the economic growth rate in this period to 0.5%.

The Paris Tourism Office expects 15.3 million visitors during the 2024 Paris Olympics. (Source: Getty)

FRANCE 24. The commander of French forces in Europe, Bertrand Toujouse, said the movement of troops and military equipment across Europe was severely hampered by bureaucracy and the state of infrastructure.

AFP. The European Commission has paid Italy the fifth tranche of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) for the post-Covid-19 pandemic, amounting to 11 billion euros.

DW. A juvenile court in the southern German city of Würzburg, Bavaria (Bayern) sentenced a 15-year-old boy to more than eight years in a juvenile detention center for shooting and killing a classmate.

REUTERS. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the country has received $3.9 billion in funding from the United States through the World Bank.

SPUTNIK. Russian security services have detained two religious figures in the Tyumen region for recruiting 19 people to send to Syria to participate in terrorist activities.

TASS. The Council of the European Union added 28 representatives of Belarusian security agencies to the sanctions list.

AP. The EU has said the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month " cannot be recognized " because the country's electoral authority has not released official voting records.

America

CNN. Hundreds of flights in the US state of Florida were delayed or canceled on August 4 due to the impact of Hurricane Debby.

BBC. US Vice President Kamala Harris of the Democratic Party conducts interviews with candidates to choose her running mate in November.

Kamala Harris interviews three leading candidates: Josh Shapiro (Governor of Pennsylvania), Tim Walz (Governor of Minnesota) and Mark Kelly (Senator of Arizona). (Source: Shutter stock)

REUTERS. Canada and the United States have reached an agreement that will see Ottawa use Washington's space technology to launch rockets into space in the future.

AFP. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has called for an urgent de-escalation in the Middle East amid fears that the conflict in the Gaza Strip could spread.

Africa

REUTERS. The Zamzam camp for internally displaced people in Sudan's North Darfur state is facing a severe shortage of food to treat malnutrition in children.

After more than 15 months of fighting between the Sudanese army and RSF, the country faces the world's largest internal displacement crisis, with 25 million people in urgent need of humanitarian aid. (Source: Arab News)

AFP. The Pentagon announced that the US military has withdrawn all forces from its last base in Niger, more than a year after the leaders of the military coup in the African country asked them to leave.

AP. Mali has announced it will sever diplomatic ties with Ukraine, accusing Kiev of involvement in the Malian army's heavy defeat by separatist and jihadist forces in July.

Oceania

BEEHIVE. The Australian government has raised its terrorism threat level from "possible" to "likely" due to the rise of domestic extremism.

AFP. In a global operation, Australian federal police are partnering with a blockchain data platform to tackle cryptocurrency scammers.

AFP. Health officials in the Australian state of Victoria say they are confident they have isolated and eradicated the source of the deadly Legionnaires' disease outbreak in the city of Melbourne.