* Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has urged efforts to well implement policies to stabilize the development of market entities and employment, and advance opening-up.
* Indonesia's central bank may raise interest rates in the current quarter to contain future pressure on core inflation, but any hike will not be aggressive and the size will hinge on the scale of energy subsidies next year, its governor said.
* Thailand's Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai and visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed two agreements on Sunday, to enhance cooperation in tackling bilateral, regional and international challenges.
* The Russian parliament's organising council was due to meet on Monday to decide on calling an extraordinary meeting of parliament on July 15, but it was not immediately clear what was to be discussed.
* Sri Lanka's entire cabinet will resign once an agreement is reached to form an all-party government, the prime minister's office said on Monday, as authorities try to overcome a political crisis triggered by a deep economic one.
* President of the Republic of Congo Denis Sassou Nguesso said on Sunday that the voting procedures for the 2022 legislative and local elections were "taking place in peace" across the country.
* Leaders of two parties in Israel's outgoing coalition government announced on Sunday that they would run jointly in the upcoming national elections.
* A four-day joint maritime exercise between China and Pakistan kicked off at a military port in Shanghai on Sunday.
* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Sunday fired what appeared to be artillery shots, Republic of Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
* Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi made a phone call on Sunday and agreed to meet "soon," Lapid's office said in a statement.
* Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on the phone on Sunday, expressing hope for improving relations between the two countries, Lapid's office said in a statement.
* The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced Sunday that it started the extraction of 20-percent enriched uranium from the Fordow enrichment facility in central Iran, state TV reported.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran supports establishing peace and stability in Syria and opposes any foreign intervention in the country, Iran's presidential website reported on Sunday.
* The biggest single pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany starts annual maintenance on Monday, with flows expected to stop for 10 days, but governments, markets and companies are worried the shut-down might be extended due to war in Ukraine.
* The French government is preparing to totally cut off Russian gas supplies, which it sees as the most likely scenario in its forward planning.
* Russian gas producer Gazprom GAZP.MM said its supply of gas to Europe through Ukraine via the Sudzha entry point was seen at 39.4 million cubic metres (mcm) on Monday after 41.9 mcm a day earlier.
* New Zealand's central bank is expected to deliver this week a third straight half-point rate hike in its most aggressive policy tightening in over two decades, but growing signs of a potentially sharp economic downturn may temper the hawkish dash.
* For the first time since 2007, Israel's state budget recorded a 12-month surplus, the country's Finance Ministry said on Sunday. During the 12 months ended in June, Israel's budget surplus amounted to 6.4 billion shekels (1.85 billion USD), which is 0.4 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).
* Drawing back the curtain to a photo gallery unlike any other, NASA will soon present the first full-color images from its James Webb Space Telescope, a revolutionary apparatus designed to peer through the cosmos to the dawn of the universe.
* China's national observatory on Monday issued an orange alert for high temperatures, as heatwaves hit vast regions of the country.
* Spaniards stayed in the shade in parks, headed for the beach or sipped iced drinks to tackle stifling temperatures as high as 43C (110F), as the country experiences its second heatwave this year.
* Portugal recorded 32 outbreaks of forest fires on Sunday, more than 2,000 operational agents are fighting in several municipalities in the country, according to the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection.
