* Memorial services were held at churches across Norway on Sunday for King Harald V, who died on Friday at 89, as the Norwegian Royal House announced that his funeral will take place on Sept. 9.
* Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir said on Sunday that the current government would not pursue further talks on resuming Iceland's accession to the European Union (EU), after a Saturday referendum saw more voters against the accession negotiations.
* Leaders from Central and Eastern Europe on Monday called for reform and enlargement of the European Union (EU) amid a rapidly changing global order at the Bled Strategic Forum, Slovenia's major foreign policy gathering.
* The Italian government announced on Monday that it would extend border controls on arrivals from Spain for a further 15 days.
* Spain will extend temporary border checks on travellers arriving from Italy by air or sea for another 15 days, Spanish newspaper El Pais reported on Monday, citing the country's Interior Ministry.
* About 590 foreign nationals from 39 countries and regions are still missing after the deadly mudslide in Nepal as per the available data, the Nepali Foreign Ministry said on Monday. During a press briefing on the mudslide, Lok Bahadur Poudel Chhetri, spokesperson for Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that so far, 903 bodies have been recovered from the mudslide-hit areas, with over 4,200 people still unaccounted for.
* The 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Forum on People-to-People Exchange was held Sunday in Bishkek, capital of Kyrgyzstan, attracting more than 100 guests, including prominent figures from the political, economic, cultural and media sectors of SCO member states.
* The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Monday announced a 220 million Singapore dollars (157 million USD) commitment over three years under the renewed Financial Sector Technology and Innovation Scheme, aimed at strengthening Singapore's fintech ecosystem and accelerating technology adoption across the financial sector.
* Bank Indonesia and the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Monday announced the operationalization of a framework to facilitate the settlement of bilateral transactions between Indonesia and Singapore in their respective local currencies.
* A total of 1,680 Afghan refugee families, comprising 8,649 individuals, have returned to Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan and Iran over the past five days, the High Commission for Addressing Returnees' Problems announced on Monday.
* Türkiye is preparing for the next phase of a disarmament process involving the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), with official verification of weapon handovers required before eligible members can return, the local Hurriyet Daily News newspaper reported Monday.
* The European Commission on Monday designated ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox as very large online services under the Digital Services Act (DSA), putting the three services under additional regulatory requirements.
* A fatal shooting at a rave party in the early hours of Sunday has left one young woman dead and five others injured, as Swiss police are conducting a nationwide manhunt for the unidentified perpetrators.
* Top diplomats and defense chiefs from Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan met in Istanbul on Monday for the inaugural meeting of their joint defense committee, established under the recently signed Makkah Joint Defense Agreement.
* The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Monday strongly condemned the U.S. military attack against Iran's southern Larak Island as an "act of aggression," stressing Iran's "inherent right" to self-defense.
* Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said it shot down a U.S. MQ-9 drone over the Strait of Hormuz with air defense missiles, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Monday.
* The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said Monday that its air force had responded to a drone approaching from Iran over UAE territorial waters.
* Israeli military operations continued across southern Lebanon on Sunday, with airstrikes, ground incursions, artillery bombardments, and demolition work, according to Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA).
* Libya's "4+4" Committee on Sunday signed an agreement in Tripoli on reshaping the board of the High National Elections Commission (HNEC) and addressing disputes over presidential and parliamentary election laws.
* Yemeni government forces said Monday they had intercepted four explosive-laden boats operated by the Houthi group as they attempted to approach government-held islands near international shipping lanes in the Red Sea.
* The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector stood at 49.8 in August, up 0.6 percentage points from July, official data showed Monday. A reading above 50 indicates expansion, while a reading below 50 indicates contraction.
* India's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) registered a growth rate of 7.8 percent during the first quarter (Q1) of the 2026-27 fiscal year (from April 2026 to June 2026), according to official data released by the federal Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Monday. The real GDP in Q1 was estimated at 81.36 trillion Indian Rupees (around 855 billion USD).
* Thailand's economic growth increased in July on a monthly basis, supported by the global technology and artificial intelligence upswing, easing conflict in the Middle East, and government stimulus measures, the Bank of Thailand said on Monday.
* The New Zealand government has canceled a planned fuel excise hike for 2027 to help ease cost-of-living pressures while delivering lower taxes for New Zealanders, senior officials said on Monday.
* Severe storms and hail killed at least two people and damaged more than 1,600 homes in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, the state Civil Defense reported Saturday.
* The number of high-confidence forest and land fire hotspots in Indonesia has declined nationwide, but the risk remains as authorities continue intensive firefighting and prevention efforts, particularly in Kalimantan and Sumatra, the Ministry of Forestry said Monday.
* Mount Sinabung in Indonesia's North Sumatra province erupted Monday morning, sending volcanic ash over the nearby city of Berastagi, a local monitoring official said.
* The world's coral reefs are losing the time they need to recover between increasingly frequent marine heatwaves and global bleaching events driven by human-induced climate change, a report said on Monday.
