* Nikol Pashinyan was reappointed prime minister of Armenia on Sunday, hours after the government formally resigned as the newly elected National Assembly convened for its first sitting.
* A sub-regional seminar was held in Vientiane province to strengthen digital economy cooperation and promote future economic growth among Lancang-Mekong countries, Lao News Agency reported on Monday.
* Venezuela and the Dominican Republic have agreed on a plan to restore bilateral relations, which were severed two years ago, Venezuela's Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
* Spain has fully deployed a floating sea barrier on Sunday along the maritime border of its North African enclave of Ceuta as the authorities continue to tighten border controls following the recent mass migrant influx from Morocco.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that negotiations with Iran will begin Monday afternoon, noting that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar had asked the United States to call off planned strikes because "they think there's a deal."
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that Iran must "compel" the United States to remain committed to the peace memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the two countries.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday that negotiations between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz are in their final stages, the official news agency IRNA reported. Araghchi said during a cabinet meeting that the negotiations have progressed and are on the path of being finalized.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Sunday stressed the importance of continued efforts to prevent a further escalation in the region during a phone call with U.S. president's special envoy Steve Witkoff.
* At least 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, despite announcements of progress in efforts to implement a ceasefire agreement.
* New Zealand approved more than 40,000 new homes in the year ended June 2026, the first time annual residential building consents have exceeded that level since 2023, official data showed on Monday.
* Indonesia's trade surplus reached 3.58 billion USD in the first half of 2026, while the country posted a 450-million-dollar trade deficit in June, according to data released by Statistics Indonesia (BPS) on Monday. Exports reached 140.81 billion dollars in the January-June period, up 4.13 percent year on year.
* Thailand's manufacturing sector growth continued to accelerate in July, as output rose to its highest level so far this year, supported by stronger new order intakes, a survey showed on Monday.
* Afghanistan's total trade volume surpassed 13.901 billion USD over the past year, covering 1.722 billion dollars in exports and 12.178 billion dollars in imports, government spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Sunday.
* About 60,000 people have been ordered to evacuate by Sunday as three fast-moving wildfires threatened Spokane and nearby communities in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington, local officials said.
* Hungary is entering its "most critical 5 days" as dropping water levels on the Danube River threaten the complete shutdown of the Paks nuclear power plant amid an extreme heatwave, Hungary's Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday, warning that the plant could be shut down for more than a month.
* At least 15 people were killed, and seven others reported missing in rain-related incidents across India's southern state of Kerala, officials said Monday.
* At least seven people were killed and 20 others injured in a suicide blast near a police station close to the venue of a peace rally in Swat district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday, the police chief of the district said.
* A tropical depression will bring rains to most parts of the country, the Philippine weather bureau forecast, local media reported on Monday.
* Australia's first H5N1 bird flu mass mortality event has been confirmed in a flock of greater crested terns that were found on an island off the coast of South Australia (SA), authorities said on Monday.
