* Cambodia has sent a diplomatic note to Thailand, proposing to hold the Cambodia-Thailand Joint Commission on Demarcation for Land Boundary for the first week of January 2026 in Cambodia's Siem Reap province, according to a Monday press release from the State Secretariat of Border Affairs.
* China will continue to make efforts to rebuild peace between Thailand and Cambodia and is willing to offer humanitarian assistance to people in need in both countries, said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Yuxi City, southwest China's Yunnan Province on Sunday.
* Thailand's Election Commission on Sunday began accepting applications for party-list candidates and notifications of prime minister nominees from political parties ahead of a general election set for February.
* Voting for the presidential, legislative, regional and municipal elections began early Sunday in the Central African Republic, with polling starting nationwide at 6:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) and set to end at 6:00 p.m. (1700 GMT).
* Guinea began voting in its presidential election on Sunday, with more than 6.8 million registered voters expected to cast their ballots at over 24,000 polling stations nationwide between 7:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) and 6:00 p.m. (1800 GMT).
* Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Sunday oversaw a long-range strategic cruise missile launching drill conducted in the western waters off the Korean Peninsula, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that the two sides are "getting a lot closer, maybe very close" to a peace deal to end the Ukraine crisis after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he had a "very productive" telephone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin prior to a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in U.S. Florida on Sunday over the latest draft of a peace plan aimed at ending the Ukraine crisis.
* Crucial power line repairs have begun near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) following a local ceasefire brokered by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the IAEA said on social media platform X on Sunday.
* Abdulmalik al-Houthi, leader of Yemen's Houthi group, warned on Sunday that any Israeli presence in Somaliland would be treated as a "military target," describing Israel's recognition of the breakaway region as a threat to regional security.
* New Zealand will step up fishery officer patrols over summer to curb illegal gathering and illicit trade of paua, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones said Sunday.
* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday announced the terms for an independent review of the Bondi Beach terror attack, but he again resisted calls to launch a royal commission.
* Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced on Monday that it has successfully launched 52 satellites on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket into their planned orbits in space.
* Iran on Sunday successfully launched three domestically produced satellites into space for agriculture and environmental research from a Russian launch site, marking the seventh time the country has used Russian rockets for satellite deployment, the official news agency IRNA reported.
* Sri Lanka on Monday surpassed its previous tourist arrivals record, welcoming the highest number of international visitors since 2018, tourism authorities said. According to official data, total tourist arrivals in 2025 reached 2,333,797, exceeding the previous record of 2,333,796 set in 2018.
* Indonesian police are conducting identification procedures for 16 people killed in a fire that broke out at a nursing home in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, local authorities said on Monday.
* Bangladesh witnessed another deadly year of dengue outbreak as the South Asian country recorded 102,562 cases and 412 deaths so far in 2025.
* A powerful cyclone that swept across Latvia during the weekend brought strong winds, causing widespread damage and power outages, authorities said on Sunday.
