1. Israel and Hezbollah traded fire across the Lebanon border and violence raged in Gaza as Washington pressed for a way out of the conflict.

2. The Russian president said it is up to Moscow how to run its mutual-defense clause with Pyongyang. North Korea said any deployment to help Russia would be lawful.

3. China published its first guidelines to standardize the diagnosis and treatment of obesity, with more than half of adults overweight and obese.

4. Taiwan reports Chinese warplanes and warships had carried out another "combat patrol" near the island, after Beijing slams $2 bln US arms package for Taiwan.

5. UN: Current climate policies will cause global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

6. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company suspended shipments to China-based chip designer Sophgo after a chip it made was found on a Huawei AI processor.