* Chinese Ambassador to the United States Xie Feng recently said that as the world's most important agricultural producers and consumers, China and the United States each have their own strengths in agriculture and can complement each other well.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to expand military deployment to Baltimore in a clash with Maryland Governor Wes Moore, who criticized the deployment of National Guard in Washington, D.C., and invited Trump to visit his state and discuss public safety.
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Western nations and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of obstructing peace talks on Ukraine in an interview released Sunday.
* U.S. Vice President JD Vance said Sunday that Russia has made "significant concessions" in talks aimed at ending its war with Ukraine.
* Ukrainian drone attacks sparked fires at a Russian nuclear plant and other energy facilities, local authorities said Sunday. Debris from a Ukrainian drone struck a transformer at the Kursk nuclear power plant early Sunday, causing a fire and damage, the regional operational headquarters said.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Kiev on Sunday to discuss defense and energy cooperation between the two countries.
* Visiting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in the Ukrainian capital Kiev new military assistance for Ukraine, according to a news release issued by the Prime Minister's Office. The funding of 2 billion Canadian dollars (1.45 billion USD) was committed at the June G7 Summit held in Canada's Kananaskis.
* A special security detail has been assigned to the Colombo National Hospital, where former President Ranil Wickremesinghe was receiving medical treatment after being remanded on Friday, a spokesperson for the Department of Prisons said Monday.
* India and Fiji on Monday signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in several fields in New Delhi during the visit of Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, announced India's Ministry of External Affairs.
* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that his government will continue to be a "strong advocate" on the global stage for a two-state solution in the Middle East.
* U.S. forces have sped up withdrawal from Ayn al-Asad base and Victoria military base in Iraq, local media reported Sunday. Some U.S. troops are being redeployed to Erbil, the capital city of the Kurdistan region in Iraq, and to a neighboring Arab country, Kurdistan24 reported.
* At least three soldiers were killed and 17 others injured in a terrorist attack on a paramilitary fort in northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, police sources said.
* More than 16 million Afghans have received electronic or computerized national identity cards (ID) since the issuance of the national identity document seven years ago, spokesman of the country's National Statistics and Information Authority Mohammad Halim Rafi said.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday said it has signed with GSA Data Center 01 Company Limited (GSA) a loan of 900 million baht (about 27.8 million USD) to fund the development, construction, and operation of a 25.6-megawatt colocation green data center in Thailand.
* Australia's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.4 percent in the 12-month period to March 2025, according to a government report published on Monday. The quarterly report on emissions from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) said that Australia produced 440.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in the year to March, down from 446.7 million tonnes in the preceding 12 months.
* Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store on Sunday described the fatal stabbing of a rehabilitation center employee in Oslo as "deeply tragic" and urged a thorough police investigation.
* At least two people were killed and 35 others wounded on Sunday afternoon after Israeli airstrikes hit several locations in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to Houthi-run health authorities.
* Multiple postal operators across Europe are suspending most package shipments to the United States, citing uncertainty, confusion and rising costs linked to forthcoming U.S. customs regulations on low-value imports.
* China has seen 823 million railway passenger trips between July 1, the start of the summer travel rush, and Aug. 23, data from the country's railway operator revealed on Sunday.
* At least 303 people died in cloudbursts, landslides, flash floods, and other rain-related incidents during the ongoing monsoon season in India's northern hilly state Himachal Pradesh, said the state's disaster management authority in a statement on Sunday.
* An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted east of the Kuril Islands at 0648 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 49.39 degrees north latitude and 160.04 degrees east longitude.
* Spain's State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) said Sunday that the heatwave striking the country this August was the most intense on record, both in terms of temperatures and impacts.
