* Russia expects no decisive breakthrough from Monday's talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, but expects that Macron will propose ways to ease tensions in Europe, the Kremlin said.
* Moscow and London are discussing a possible visit by Britian's foreign minister Liz Truss to Moscow on Feb. 10, the RIA news agency quoted Russia's foreign ministry as saying on Monday, amid diplomatic efforts to resolve a crisis around Ukraine.
* German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish President Andrzej Duda in Berlin on Tuesday, a German government spokesperson said on Monday.
* Indirect talks in Vienna between Iran and the United States on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal will resume on Tuesday, the European Union, which is coordinating the talks, confirmed on Monday.
* Azerbaijan has released eight Armenian prisoners in an effort to facilitate new talks with France and the European Union on the border conflict between the two countries, said French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Charles Michel.
* Italy expects the price of permits on the European Union's carbon market to average around 80 euros (91 USD) per tonne this year compared to 69 euros in the fourth quarter of 2021, a document presented to parliament and seen by Reuters showed.
* The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Organising Committee said on Monday that 24 new COVID-19 cases were detected among games-related personnel on Feb. 6.
* India has given regulatory approval to Russia's one-shot Sputnik Light COVID-19 vaccine, the Russian Direct Investment Fund said.
* Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on Sunday declared a state of emergency to help deal with an unprecedented 10-day occupation by protesting truckers that has shut down much of the core of the Canadian capital.
* Britain reported 54,095 COVID-19 cases and 75 deaths in its daily official data on Sunday, with the seven-day figure for both falling compared with the week before.
* Mexico's health ministry on Sunday reported 10,234 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 129 more deaths, bringing the total number of infections in the country since the pandemic began to 5,151,525 and the death toll to 309,546.
* Australia will fully reopen its borders to all vaccinated visa holders from Feb. 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday, nearly two years after he shut the border to non-citizens to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
* Spain will next week lift a requirement for people to wear masks outdoors, extending a wider rollback of restrictions as contagion slowly recedes in the country.
* Turkey recorded 111,157 new COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, its highest daily figure of the pandemic, while the daily death toll was its highest in four months, health ministry data showed.
