* Bernardo Arevalo has won Guatemala's presidential election, according to a count by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Sunday evening. With 95 percent of ballots counted, Arevalo has scored 59 percent of votes, with his rival Sandra Torres trailing behind with 36 percent.
* Preliminary results showed that Luisa Gonzalez of Citizen Revolution Movement and former legislator Daniel Noboa are expected to beat out six other candidates in the first round of Ecuador's presidential elections and then face off in the runoff, the National Electoral Council (CNE) said Sunday.
* China's financial authorities have stressed efforts to enhance financial support for the real economy, as well as to prevent and defuse local-government debt risks.
* Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday stressed that the leadership renewal is on track and recent scandals involving political figures will not delay his timetable.
* Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), inspected a surface ship flotilla affiliated with the East Sea Fleet of the Korean People's Army (KPA) Navy to learn about its preparedness for combat, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday, without specifying the date of the inspection.
* Russia on Monday condemned a decision by Denmark and the Netherlands to donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, saying the move would escalate the conflict.
* China stands ready to continue to work with Iran to firmly support each other on issues concerning core interests, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during his phone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Sunday at the latter's request.
* Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will meet in New York in September to discuss Iran's nuclear programme among other issues, Kyodo news agency said on Sunday, quoting unnamed Iranian diplomatic sources.
* U.S. helicopters were forced to return to a cruiser in the Strait of Hormuz after receiving warnings from Iran, in a recent encounter between the two sides after the U.S. started to build up its military presence in the strait, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
* Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM said it would send 41.5 million cubic metres (mcm) of natural gas to Europe via Ukraine on Monday, a volume broadly in line with recent days.
* Ukraine will get at least 42 F-16 fighter jets after the end of the training course for pilots, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday.
* Ukraine is considering using its newly-tested wartime Black Sea export corridor for grain shipments after other cargo ships follow the first successful evacuation of a vessel on the route last week, a senior agricultural official said on Monday.
* The process of releasing U.S. prisoners held in Iran will take up to two months, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said on Monday during a press conference.
* Australia will spend A$1.3 billion ($833 million) to boost its long-range strike capabilities as it finalised on Monday a deal to buy more than 200 Tomahawk cruise missiles from the United States, part of a wide-ranging defence shake-up.
* The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday separately summoned the Danish and Swedish charges d'affaires in Tehran over the recurrent "desecration" of the Quran in the two Nordic countries, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
* Iran's Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib said on Sunday the country's intelligence services have detained spies from France, Britain, Sweden and other countries, some of whom have already been executed despite foreign pressures, the official IRNA news agency reported.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pedersen discussed on Sunday the latest developments in Syria.
* Russia's Progress MS-22 cargo spacecraft left the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday morning and sank in a non-navigable area of the Pacific Ocean, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said on Monday.
* The lander module of India's ongoing Moon Mission-3, or Chandrayaan-3, is scheduled to land on the lunar surface on Aug. 23 at around 6:04 p.m. Indian Standard Time, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) officially announced on Sunday.
* A total of 38 aid workers with the United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) were killed during the past two years in Afghanistan, local media reported.
* The Australian federal government will have to spend about half its total budget on health, aged care, defence, disability support and debt repayments by 2063 up from about a third now, official forecasts showed on Monday.
* Pakistan's President Arif Alvi said on Sunday he had refused to sign into law two bills that would give authorities more power to prosecute people for acts against the state and military, a move the law ministry said was unconstitutional.
* The Central Bank of Samoa said the Pacific island country's economy has seen a strong growth since it reopened borders in August last year, local media has reported.
* Afghanistan has exported 2,000 cartons of fresh grapes to Russia via Haritan port for the first time, according to the chamber of commerce of the northern Balkh province on Sunday.
* Sri Lanka has ruled out a shortage of rice until the harvest of the next cultivation season despite the impact of dry weather on the current crop, the Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement on Sunday.
* Canada is sending the military to tackle fast-spreading wildfires in British Columbia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday, as the western province deals with flames that have led to evacuation orders for more than 35,000 people.
* Japan's weather agency said on Monday that scorching heat continues to push temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius across the country, with heatstroke alerts having been issued for many prefectures.
