Monday: Malaysia and Singapore announce August inflation data while New Zealand publishes its latest trade figures. Financial markets in Japan will be closed for the Autumn equinox.

Tuesday: Former Singaporean transport minister S Iswaran’s corruption trial is scheduled to begin. The Reserve Bank of Australia announces its interest rate decision.

Wednesday: The EU is set to vote on proposed tariffs for Chinese electric vehicles. Australia publishes August inflation data. Nine Dragons Paper, Asia’s largest paperboard producer, announces quarterly earnings. 

Thursday: The Tokyo Game Show, one of the world’s largest gaming exhibitions, begins. Hong Kong property developer New World Development announces earnings. 

Friday: Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party votes to choose its next leader. Chinese industrial profits figures for August are due. Sri Lanka’s central bank announces its interest rate decision.

The White House issued a statement Sunday, condemning gun violence after four people were killed and at least 17 others were wounded following a mass shooting in a popular Birmingham, Alabama, nightlife district Saturday night.

“Last night, several people were killed and many more wounded in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. And once again, our entire nation is watching in horror as another community is devastated by the national epidemic of gun violence,” Stef Feldman, Gun Violence Prevention Director said in a statement. 

“President Biden and Vice President Harris join Americans across the nation in praying for the families affected by this senseless violence,” Feldman continued.

At the direction of President Biden, Feldman said the White House is coordinating with federal, state, and local officials as investigations are underway into the shooting.

MASS SHOOTING IN ALABAMA LEAVES 4 DEAD, AT LEAST 18 OTHERS WOUNDED, NO ARRESTS MADE: POLICE

“Americans should not have to live like this. And we can’t let it become normal. This year alone there have been more than 400 mass shootings which have traumatized Americans and torn communities apart. As President Biden often says: Enough is enough,” Feldman said.

Two men and a woman were killed at the scene in the 2000 block of Magnolia Avenue in the Five Points South area near the University of Alabama at Birmingham, while a fourth victim died at the university’s hospital, the Birmingham Police Department told Fox News Digital via email Sunday morning.

Police responded to reports of gunfire shortly after 11 p.m., police said.

Authorities identified three out of four of the victims killed by the gunfire. Police said all three died at the scene and identified the victims as Anitra Holloman, 21, of Bessemer, Alabama, Tahj Booker, 27, of Birmingham, Alabama, and Carlos McCain, 27, of Birmingham, Alabama.

The fourth victim is an adult male, who died at the hospital, pending identification, officials said. 

“Detectives believe the shooting was not random and stemmed from an isolated incident where multiple victims were caught in the crossfire,” police said in the emailed statement.

KENTUCKY POLICE BELIEVE BODY FOUND BY LIVESTREAMING COUPLE IS MAN WHO OPENED FIRE ON MOTORISTS

The mass shooting killed four people and wounded at least 18 others, police said. (WBRC)

In a press conference Sunday morning, Birmingham Police Chief Scott Thurmond said he believes the shooting was “a hit,” and that someone was paid to kill the targeted victim, while he added that the victim is among those who were killed. 

Police confirmed the weapons used were fully automatic and that more than 100 shell casings were found at the scene along with numerous other pieces of evidence, according to Thurmond. They also believe there were several shooters based on evidence. 

Authorities added that they are also working to determine who was the target of the shooting and will be reviewing video surveillance. 

KENTUCKY SHERIFF CHARGED WITH FATALLY SHOOTING JUDGE DEPOSED IN RAPE-RELATED CASE DAYS EARLIER

No suspects were in custody as of Sunday morning, police said. (WBRC)

“I will say this, we, all of us as a community, owe it to the victims to do everything we can to take these shooters, killers, off our streets,” Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin said.

At this time, authorities say no suspects are in custody.

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

“To the victims and the victims’ families, our heartfelt condolences go out to them. That’s 21 people whose lives were forever changed, that’s 21 families, that some are destroyed and some are just altered. Our hearts go out to them as we work through this,” Thurmond said. 

Authorities are strongly urging the public to come forward with any information that could help lead to an arrest.

Fox News Digital’s Landon Mion and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report. 

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

The US directly warned Israel against opening a full-blown war with Hizbollah on Sunday as the Lebanese militant group and Israeli forces engaged in some of their most fierce exchanges of fire since October 7.

In salvos capping a week of spiralling hostilities, Israeli jets mounted some of the heaviest bombing raids in southern Lebanon since the start of the fighting last year, while Hizbollah fired rockets towards the city of Haifa.

The escalating attacks have fuelled fears that the hostilities could tip into a full-scale land war.

John Kirby, the US National Security Council spokesperson, warned Israel that there were “better ways” to ensure Israeli citizens could return to evacuated homes in the north “than a war, than an escalation, then opening up a second front”.

“We don’t believe that a military conflict, and we’re saying this directly to our Israeli counterparts . . . we don’t believe that escalating this military conflict is in their best interest,” Kirby told ABC’s This Week.

President Joe Biden told reporters his administration was “going to do everything we can to keep a wider war from breaking out”.

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin called his Israeli counterpart on Saturday to stress “the importance of achieving a diplomatic solution” and highlight his concern about the safety of US citizens in the region, according to the Pentagon.

The Israeli military said Hizbollah had launched about 150 projectiles early on Sunday, with rockets aimed deeper into Israel than in previous salvos. While most were intercepted, Kiryat Bialik and Tsur Shalom in Haifa’s suburbs, and other areas in the country’s north, sustained hits.

Hizbollah said the barrages were in retaliation for “repeated” Israeli attacks, as well as an “initial” response to mass detonations of its communications devices earlier this week that killed 37 people and injured more than 3,000 across Lebanon. Hizbollah has blamed the device explosions on Israel, which has not directly confirmed or denied responsibility.

Despite international calls for Israel to avoid escalating hostilities, Benjamin Netanyahu promised no let up in the military pressure on Hizbollah. “Over the past few days we hit Hizbollah with a series of blows it hadn’t imagined,” the Israeli prime minister said on Sunday. “If Hizbollah didn’t get the message, I promise you, they will.”

In an indication of the increasingly hardline atmosphere in Netanyahu’s government, the diaspora affairs minister Amichai Chikli said Israel should establish buffer zones in Lebanon, claiming it was not a state.

“Lebanon, even though it has a flag and even though it has political institutions, does not meet the definition of a state,” he wrote on X.

As tensions rise across the region, Israel said it had also shot down a drone fired from the east — which was claimed by militants in Iraq who said they had also targeted Israel with cruise missiles — and launched a raid in the Palestinian city of Ramallah to shut the local Al Jazeera office for 45 days.

Israel has accused the media group of being a mouthpiece for militants. Al Jazeera has rejected the claims and the Foreign Press Association said it was “deeply troubled” by the move. “Restricting foreign reporters and closing news channels signals a shift away from democratic values,” said the association’s board.

Nadav Shoshani, a spokesman for Israel’s military, accused Hizbollah of “targeting civilians” in its latest round of strikes, and the military said it would continue to strike to degrade the Lebanese group’s capabilities.

The Israeli military said earlier on Sunday it had hit about 290 targets in Lebanon in the preceding 24 hours, destroying thousands of rocket launcher barrels and other infrastructure belonging to Hizbollah. The Lebanese health ministry said three people had been killed by the strikes.

Hizbollah and Israeli forces have been exchanging cross-border fire since the Iran-backed militant group launched rockets at Israel the day after Hamas’s October 7 attack on the Jewish state.

But in the last week, the hostilities have escalated dramatically. On Tuesday and Wednesday, the attack on Hizbollah’s pagers and other communications devices sent shockwaves through Lebanon.

Then, on Friday, an Israeli strike in Beirut killed Ibrahim Aqil and other senior commanders in Hizbollah’s elite Radwan force, in arguably the most damaging blow Israel has landed against the militant group since it was founded in the 1980s.

Lebanese authorities said on Sunday that the death toll from the strike, which destroyed a residential building in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, had risen to 45, including at least 10 civilians, among them three children.

This week’s escalation came after Israel said it was entering a “new phase” of its almost year-long conflict with Hizbollah, which was until now largely contained to the Israeli-Lebanese border region.

Jeanine Hennis, the UN’s special co-ordinator for Lebanon, warned that the exchanges had brought the region to “the brink of an imminent catastrophe” and called for both sides to de-escalate.

“It cannot be overstated enough: there is NO military solution that will make either side safer,” she wrote on X.