According to the US NHC, Hurricane Irma struck Cuba's northern coast as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds, the most powerful hurricane classification.
Following the suspension of United Nations activities in the violence-riven region of Myanmar, the Red Cross is now scaling up its operations there.
Late on Friday, the Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said the country would send troops to help the Philippines battle against IS militants in Marawi.
At the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum, the Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull said the country would continue its Pacific Islands migrant worker programme.
On Saturday, the Japanese Air Self Defence Forces revealed that the country's F-15 fighters and the US B1-B bombers had conducted drills over the East China Sea.
Kim Hyong Gil, North Korea's ambassador to Mexico, stated that tensions between his country and the US were not Mexico's business.
South Korea warned that North Korea could launch another intercontinental missile on Saturday to commemorate its founding day.
SK Hynix, a South Korean chip maker, and Bain Capital, a US private-equity firm, lifted their bid for Toshiba's chip company to 2.4T yen ($22.3B).
China's National Bureau of Statistics reported on Saturday that its PPI jumped 6.3% year-over-year last month, up from July's rise of 5.5%.
At least 61 casualties were reported after the 8.1 magnitude earthquake, the strongest in 85 years, hit the southern states of Chiapas and Oaxaca in Mexico late Thursday.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron to increase international pressure on North Korea and resolve the conflict with negotiations.
The Foreign Secretary of the Philippines said on Friday that the country had suspended trade with North Korea to comply with the latest UNSC resolution over its missile tests.
The National Bureau of Statistics of China reported on Saturday that the Producer Price Index increased 5.5% month-on-month in August, driven by a rise in raw material prices.
There is a fear that hurricane Irma may cause the most widespread outages ever experienced in Florida'. State's officials reported that residents should be prepared to go days or weeks without power.
The House of Representatives approved a wide-ranging measure on Friday to provide $15B in aid to Hurricane Harvey victims that included raising the US debt limit and funding the government until December.
Russia's newly appointed ambassador to the US, has met the US President Donald Trump, reporting that the meeting took place in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike Mexico with the magnitude 8.1 hit the southern coast of Mexico, killing at least 36 people.
The largest US supermarket owner Kroger reported that its quarterly profits came in below expectations, being hit by an escalating grocery price war.
On Friday, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe said the country was set to start compiling a fresh voter register as soon as next week.
Local authorities called on the state's residents to leave the evacuation zones as the Hurricane Irma, one of the most devastating in a century, drives towards Florida.
The Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said the country's Finance Ministry was willing to regulate circulation of Bitcoin involving the state's citizens and companies.
Canada's industries performed at 85.0% of their capacity over the course of the second quarter compared with the 83.2% rate registered in the Q1, Statistics Canada reported.
The US Commerce Department reported on Friday that the country's wholesale inventories surged 0.6% in July, missing analysts' expectations for a 0.4% uptick.
Data published by Statistics Canada revealed that the country's unemployment rate slipped 0.1% to settle at 6.2% over the course of the prior month.