* Cambodian security forces on Sunday managed to foil all attempts by extremist opposition forces to instigate riots against the government, National Police's deputy chief and spokesperson Lt. Gen. Chhay Kim Khoeun said.
* Indonesia's President Joko Widodo has inaugurated Bahlil Lahadalia, the former investment minister and his close aide, as the country's new energy minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle, the palace said on Monday.
* Chief Adviser to the Bangladeshi interim government Muhammad Yunus has said a free, fair and participatory election will be arranged as soon as possible after bringing necessary reforms in the state system.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang will travel to Russia to chair the 29th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian heads of government and visit Russia and Belarus from August 20 to 23, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Monday.
* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine, the Indian foreign ministry said on Monday, his first trip to the war-torn country since the Ukraine-Russia’s crisis erupted and about a month after he met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
* Russia has officially requested Germany to investigate the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.
* Belarus has deployed a third of its army along the border with Ukraine, BelTA news agency reported Sunday, citing Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in an interview with Russian media.
* The situation on Ukraine's border with Belarus remains "unchanged," Andriy Demchenko, the spokesman of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, said on Sunday.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's nominee for foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, outlined key foreign policy priorities of the new administration on Sunday, emphasizing the importance of China and Russia.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani jointly stressed the need for de-escalating conflicts in the Middle East region, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
* U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday called the latest diplomatic push by Washington to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza "probably the best, maybe the last opportunity" and urged all parties to get the agreement over the finish line.
* The Palestinian group Hamas said on Sunday that a new proposal meant to bridge the gaps between Israel and the Islamist armed group over a Gaza ceasefire were too close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent positions.
* Preparations are taking place for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's planned visit to the Gaza Strip as the Palestinian officials have reached out to countries worldwide for support, according to a statement published by Palestinian official news Agency WAFA on Sunday.
* Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council on Sunday said the government will send a delegation to Cairo, Egypt, for talks on implementing the Jeddah agreement signed in May 2023.
* Israeli airstrikes on Yemen's Hodeidah port last month appeared to be an indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians which may amount to a war crime, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. Israel said on July 20 its warplanes struck Houthi military targets near Hodeidah.
* The Lebanese Army Command announced on Sunday the arrest of 237 individuals, including 230 Syrians, five Lebanese, and two Palestinians, who were attempting to travel illegally by sea.
* Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered the immediate shipment of fuel oil to Lebanon, which is facing a severe power shortage, the state-run Algerian Radio reported Sunday.
* A 50-metre sailboat with 22 people on board sank in the early hours of Monday off the coast of the Sicilian city of Palermo, and 7 people are missing, Italian media outlets reported.
* New Zealand's national population estimates was 5,338,500 on June 30, the statistics department Stats NZ said on Monday.
* Indonesia's state-owned electricity company PT PLN Indonesia (PLN) has partnered with a Saudi Arabian company to develop a 60-megawatt floating solar power plant at Saguling Reservoir in West Java.
* Thailand's economy expanded 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2024 from a year earlier, driven by the tourism sector, private consumption and exports, official data showed on Monday.
* The number of foreign visitors to China soared 129.9 percent year on year to 17.25 million in the first seven months of this year thanks to a series of measures facilitating the entry of foreigners, the National Immigration Administration (NIA) said on Monday.
* Mongolia has seen a significant increase in its coal exports during the first seven months of 2024, with a total of 46.1 million tons shipped abroad, marking a 35.5 percent rise compared to the same period 2023, data released by the Mongolian Customs General Administration showed Monday.
* Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mexico hit a record of 31.096 billion USD in the first half of the year, authorities said on Sunday.
* Albania welcomed 6.3 million foreign tourists in the first seven months of 2024, an increase of 1.2 million compared to the same period in 2023, Prime Minister Edi Rama announced on Sunday.
* China's central authorities have allocated 115 million yuan (about 16.1 million USD) to assist five regions in dealing with the flood disasters.
* Torrential rains and flash floods starting in July have killed 187 people and injured 333 others in different parts of Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has reported.
* Hundreds of Portuguese firefighters on Sunday scrambled to put out a wildfire sweeping parts of the Atlantic island of Madeira's south coast, a popular tourist destination, with strong winds complicating efforts to tackle the blaze.
* Heavy rains and storms hit Austria over the weekend, leading to widespread flooding, mudslides and disruptions to transportation in various regions of the country.
* In the wake of the World Health Organization's (WHO) declaration of monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Saturday directed strict measures to monitor and control the spread of the disease in the country.
* The Philippines has detected a new case of the mpox virus in the country, the first since December last year, its health department said on Monday, adding it was awaiting test results before being able to determine the strain.
* Nearly 3 million doses of polio vaccines have been delivered to the Gaza Strip since the onset of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in October 2023, according to Israeli authorities on Sunday.
* Contagious diseases, including cholera and conjunctivitis, are spreading rapidly in Sudan due to the prolonged conflict that has severely impacted the country's health sector, compounded by annual heavy rains and floods, according to Sudanese authorities and experts.
* Volcanic smog from Taal Volcano, south of the Philippine capital, has shrouded parts of the Batangas, Cavite, and Laguna provinces, local governments said Monday.
