* Republic of Korea's ousted President Yoon Suk-yeol on Monday attended the second hearing of his criminal trial over insurrection charges.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued no orders to extend the Easter truce which has expired on Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told TASS news agency.
* The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that it repelled Ukrainian attacks overnight amid a unilateral Easter truce declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin, while Ukraine accused Russia of violating the ceasefire.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani said Sunday that the upcoming 34th Arab League summit to be held in Baghdad next month will yield results of great significance for the Arab world.
* Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said on Sunday the country is serious in its indirect negotiations with the United States and wants no delay in the diplomatic process.
* The Israeli military on Sunday admitted that a series of "professional failures" resulted in the killing of 15 emergency responders in southern Gaza last month, including personnel from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, Civil Defense teams, and a United Nations employee.
* The death toll from fresh U.S. airstrikes on a crowded market in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday evening has risen to 12, with at least 30 others wounded, Houthi-controlled health authorities said in a statement.
* The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said Sunday that 69 percent of the Gaza Strip is under active Israeli displacement orders.
* Coordinated attacks by suspected armed herders in Nigeria's central state of Benue have left at least 56 people dead so far, as local security agencies and volunteers continue to comb nearby bushes for more bodies, a senior official has said.
* Republic of Korea's export fell 5.2 percent year-on-year in the first 20 days of April on the back of lower demand for locally made cars and oil products, customs office data showed Monday. The revenue of outbound shipment stood at 33.87 billion USD in the cited period.
* Brunei's economic growth is forecast at 2.6 percent in both 2025 and 2026, according to the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO).
* Sri Lanka aims to double its coconut export revenue this year to 1.7 billion USD, state media reported Sunday, citing the Coconut Development Authority (CDA).
* Pakistan's food exports increased by 1.62 percent in the first nine months of the fiscal year 2024-25 (July 2024 to June 2025), according to data from the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
* Bangladesh's highest economic policy-making body has approved a bay terminal expansion project worth over 1 billion taka (about 700 million USD) for the country's largest Chattogram seaport, a senior official said on Sunday.
* Nepal's external trade increased by 16.89 percent in the last nine months of the current 2024-25 fiscal year due to a rise in both imports and exports, the Department of Customs announced on Sunday.
* Mongolia's industrial output reached 7.9 trillion Mongolian tugriks (2.21 billion USD) in the first quarter of 2025, a 17 percent increase year-on-year, local media reported on Sunday, citing data from the National Statistics Office (NSO).
* NASA announced that its Lucy spacecraft made a close encounter with a small main belt asteroid on Sunday. The spacecraft made the closest approach to the asteroid, codenamed "Donaldjohanson", at 1:51 p.m. Eastern Time (0551 GMT) within 960 km at the speed of about 48,000 km per hour.
* The entry-level internet speed for millions of Bangladesh's broadband subscribers has doubled to 10 Mbps, a major step forward in the country's efforts to power digital transformation.
