* Slovakia's incumbent speaker of the National Council Peter Pellegrini won the country's second round of the presidential election held on Saturday, according to preliminary results published by Slovakia's Statistical Office.
* Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre on Sunday announced a mini-Cabinet reshuffle, where new appointments to the ministries of foreign, security, and internal affairs were made.
* Poles voted in local elections on Sunday, selecting councillors and mayors who will play a key role in allocating billions in European Union funds and providing an early indication of their satisfaction with the government of Donald Tusk.
* At the start of a meeting on Sunday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in Beijing, Chinese Premier Li Qiang said that the United Stated and China need to respect each other and should be partners, and not adversaries.
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit China on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the war in Ukraine and the deepening partnership between Moscow and Beijing.
* Ecuador drew widespread criticism from the United Nations and several Latin American nations on Saturday after its police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito and arrested former Vice President Jorge Glas, who has been taking refuge in the embassy since last December.
* With a lot at stake in the upcoming European Parliament elections, a key target for the center-right European People's Party (EPP) and citizens of Europe is to stop the rise of far- Right populists who aspire to "destroy Europe," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in Athens on Sunday.
* Ukrainian drones attacked the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) on Sunday, according to the plant's press service. The NPP said on Telegram that an attack was recorded in the area of a canteen in the plant, damaging a truck unloading food.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would agree to receive a new military aid loan package from the United States, the Ukrayinska Pravda media outlet reported Saturday.
* Syrian and Russian forces on Saturday launched a series of joint attacks on "terrorist" sites in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib provinces in northern Syria, the Syrian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
* Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 33,175 Palestinians and wounded 75,886 since Oct. 7, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said on Sunday.
* Houthi forces in Yemen said on Sunday they had launched rockets and drones at British, U.S. and Israeli ships, the latest in a campaign of attacks on shipping in support of Palestinians in the Gaza war.
* Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian travelled to Oman on Sunday on the first leg of a regional tour, his ministry said, almost a week after Israel's strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
* African governments should scale up access to quality healthcare for all citizens in a bid to reduce the continent's disease burden, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Sunday during World Health Day which is celebrated annually on April 7.
* The Tunisian coastguard has retrieved the bodies of 13 migrants off Tunisia and rescued 1,867 others in a number of separate incidents in the Mediterranean, the national guard said on Sunday.
* Over 1,100 migrants and refugees including 121 non-accompanied children were rescued off Italy's southern coasts over 24 hours, local media said on Saturday.
* A senior Iranian official said on Sunday that none of Israel's embassies were safe anymore, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
* Indonesia has operated 2,800 extra flights for the Eid el-Fitr homecoming season, according to Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi.
* The Philippines' gross international reserves (GIR) rose to 104 billion USD at the end of March from 102 billion dollars at the end of February, the Philippine central bank has said.
* Myanmar earned over 1.48 billion USD from the export of over 1.7 million tons of beans and pulses in the fiscal year 2023-24, according to the Ministry of Commerce on Sunday.
* The Russian Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft, carrying an international crew of three cosmonauts, has successfully returned to Earth on Saturday.
* Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia's Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe's third longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 6,000 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee with just their pets and a few belongings.
