* The Russia-Ukraine conflict continued as Ukraine's western city of Lviv reported missile strikes on Monday morning.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine will not give up territories to end the conflict with Russia, Ukrinform news agency reported on Sunday.
* Economic advisor to the Ukrainian President Oleh Ustenko called on the Group of Seven (G7) countries to provide 50 billion USD to help Ukraine close its budget gap, according to a press release from Ukraine's Presidential Office.
* China's economy grew at a faster than expected clip in the first quarter, official data showed on Monday, expanding 4.8% year-on-year.
* Spain will revise down its economic growth target for 2022, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday in a TV interview. The government is set update its bullish 7% growth projection for 2022 later this month to take into account the impact of inflation stoked by Russia-Ukraine crisis.
* A sharp rebound in automotive output in March spurred a third straight monthly gain in US factory activity, perhaps signalling the worst of the production woes that have dogged the motor vehicle industry over the last year may have passed.
* Malaysia's exports surged 25.4 percent year on year to a new high of 131.64 billion ringgit (30.99 billion USD) in March, official data showed Monday.
* Sri Lankan Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana said on Monday that the country will take steps to stabilize the economy including strengthening public finance.
* Prime Minister Scott Morrison denied on Monday that his government would make cuts to Australia's universal healthcare scheme if he is re-elected next month, after the opposition Labor Party raised doubts over its future.
* Turkey said Monday it has launched a new ground and air cross-border operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
* The death toll from floods in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province this week now stands at 443, with 63 people missing, the premier of the province said on Sunday at a televised briefing.
* Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic COVID-19 cases and other areas across China tightened controls as the country kept up its "dynamic clearance" approach that aims to stamp out the highly transmissible Omicron variant.
* India's tally of daily COVID-19 cases nearly doubled on Monday from the previous day to more than 2,000 for the first time in a month, government data showed, and the southern state of Kerala reported a big jump in deaths.
* The US State Department said it will sharply cut back on "Do Not Travel" advisories for international destinations after public health officials announced a change in how they will assess COVID-19 concerns.
* The number of domestic travelers during the upcoming Golden Week string of national holidays beginning at the end of this month is set to surge by almost 70 percent compared to a year earlier, Japan's largest travel agency said on Monday.
* Africa is experiencing its longest-running decline in weekly COVID-19 infections since the start of the pandemic, the World Health Organization said.
