* India's ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has fielded C.P. Radhakrishnan, currently the governor of the southwestern state of Maharashtra, as the federal alliance's candidate for the post of the country's vice president, an election for which was scheduled for Sept. 9.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could swiftly end the conflict with Russia by abandoning efforts to reclaim Crimea and forgoing NATO membership.
* Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) foiled an attempt by Ukrainian special services to attack the Crimean Bridge with a car packed with explosives, local media reported Monday.
* The Republic of Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Monday ordered preparations for the phased implementation of existing inter-Korean agreements, according to the presidential office.
* A total of 161 packages containing food were airdropped over the Gaza Strip on Sunday during an aid operation carried out by nine countries, the Israeli military said, as famine continues to spread in the enclave after nearly two years of war.
* Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and his Palestinian counterpart Mohammad Mustafa discussed on Sunday the latest developments in the Palestinian territories.
* The Lebanese army on Sunday said it thwarted an infiltration attempt by armed men crossing from Syria into eastern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported.
* China's Ministry of Commerce said Monday that it will extend the ongoing anti-subsidy investigation into certain dairy products imported from the European Union (EU).
* Thailand's economy expanded 2.8 percent in the second quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, driven by continued growth in exports and a rebound in private investment, official data showed on Monday.
* Cambodia's insurance industry registered a gross premium of 208.3 million USD in the first half of 2025, up 17.2 percent from 177.7 million dollars over the same period last year, an Insurance Regulator of Cambodia (IRC) report showed on Monday.
* Afghanistan has signed contracts worth 243 million USD with Uzbekistan to implement four key electricity projects aimed at boosting the country's power supply, the office of the Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs said in a statement late Sunday.
* Jordan will resume and expand low-cost air links with Europe from late August in a push to revive a tourism industry hit by regional tensions, officials said on Sunday.
* Nepal received pledged foreign direct investments (FDI) worth 24.1 billion Nepali rupees (172.32 million USD) in the first month of the current 2025-26 fiscal year that started in mid-July, the Department of Industry said on Sunday.
* Twenty people were killed and 134 injured after a fire broke out at a production facility in the Shilovsky district of central Russia's Ryazan Oblast, the regional operational headquarters said Monday.
