Maritime traffic in Istanbul's Bosphorus Strait, one of the world's most important waterways, was suspended on Monday due to heavy fog, according to local authorities.

Travelers from 50 nations, including 30 in Africa, could face refundable security deposits of up to $20,000 to visit the United States, following the permanent adoption of a visa bond policy by the US Department of State.

South Korea's weather agency issued a "severe heatwave warning" for Seoul on Monday, the first such advisory since introducing the designation this year to alert the public about extreme temperatures.

Numerous governments across Central and Eastern Europe are taking steps to conserve electricity and avert an energy crisis as record low water levels on the Danube River have forced power plants to the brink of shutting down.

​Ghana's parliament passed a bill that could send cocoa farmers to prison for up to 20 years if they convert their farms to other uses without government approval, according to a copy of the bill seen by The Associated Press.

Water-bombing aircraft resumed firefighting operations in Greece on Monday after winds eased, joining hundreds of firefighters battling multiple blazes that have already claimed five lives.

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez on Saturday said his country would not seek Spain's suspension from Schengen rules, after tens of thousands of migrants entered Spain's enclave of Ceuta in North Africa.

Temperatures reached 40.3 degrees Celsius in Kumamoto City on Monday, breaking prefectural heat records and topping 40 degrees for the first time in the southwestern Japanese prefecture devastated by a powerful quake.

At least 29 people have been killed, 129 injured and four remain missing after recent flash floods swept parts of eastern, southeastern and central Afghanistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Afghanistan announced, the local media Tolo news reported on Monday.

Five people were killed and 41 others remained missing after the Mutiara Santosa 2 caught fire in the Java Sea north of Madura Island in Indonesia's East Java province, the National Search and Rescue Agency said Sunday.

At least seven people were killed and 20 others injured in a suicide blast near a police station close to the venue of a peace rally in Swat district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, the police chief of the district said.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in US custody since January, on Sunday welcomed a planned meeting between the Venezuelan government and opposition groups expected to take place later this week.

Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said in a statement its aerospace division's "modern and advanced" air defense system on Monday shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Strait of Hormuz, according to the IRGC's official news outlet Sepah News.

The Nathu La Pass resumed operation for border trade between China and India on Saturday, signaling a new phase of mutually beneficial cooperation and development in cross-border trade, Gong Shijun, head of Yadong county government in Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, said at the

Seven OPEC+ countries agreed on Sunday to raise the oil production cap in September by 188,000 barrels per day (bpd) from August levels, according to a statement published after a virtual meeting of OPEC+.

South Korea registered its highest temperature since records began more than a century ago on Sunday, as authorities warned people to "immediately" stop all outdoor activities in affected areas.