* Bulgarian President Rumen Radev on Monday asked the GERB-UDF coalition, the largest political force with 67 seats in the newly elected 240-member Parliament, to form a new government.
* Countries are gathering Tuesday for a key U.N. nature conference in Montreal, aiming to broker a new global agreement to protect what's left of Earth's wildlife and natural spaces.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the signing of a framework agreement between Sudan's military and civilian political forces on Monday.
* UN humanitarians seek almost 50 million USD to assist about 315,000 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a UN spokeswoman said on Monday.
* The third batch of space scientific experimental samples from China's Tiangong space station arrived in Beijing on Monday, following the return of the Shenzhou-14 crew.
* Oil prices dipped on Monday as upbeat US economic data rekindled concerns over aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.
* Russia's mechanism to ban sales of oil that are subject to a price cap imposed by Western countries should begin working before the end of the year, Russian news agencies quoted Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak as saying on Tuesday.
* United States companies dominate global arms sales, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report on Monday.
* Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday urged political parties to leave political differences aside and activate the caretaker cabinet's work to solve the issues faced by the Lebanese people.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday that 633 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya and sent back to the North African country over the past week.
* Sudan's military and civilian leaders on Monday signed a political framework agreement to end the political impasse and institute a two-year transitional civilian authority.
* Uruguay on Monday called for "opening up" and "modernizing" the Southern Common Market, or Mercosur.
* Myanmar exported more than 1.05 million tons of beans and pulses in nearly eight months of the 2022-23 fiscal year beginning in April, showed the ministry of commerce's figures on Tuesday.
* Driven by the release of pent-up demand from consumers, the Philippines' economy is projected to surge to a 7.2-percent growth in 2022 before tapering off to an average of 5.7 percent growth in 2023, according to an updated World Bank report released on Tuesday.
* Brazil's financial market upgraded the country's economic growth forecasts for this year and the next, from 2.81 percent to 3.05 percent for 2022, and from 0.70 percent to 0.75 percent for 2023, the Central Bank of Brazil said Monday.
* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has shut down calls for the country to consider nuclear power options despite rising electricity prices.
* Almost 23 percent of people in employment worldwide have experienced violence and harassment at work, whether physical, psychological or sexual, according to a recent survey conducted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and its partners.
* British grocery inflation edged lower in November, a first decline in nearly two years, but remained near record highs, providing little relief for consumers ahead of the key Christmas trading period, industry data showed on Tuesday.
* The European Union agreed on Tuesday on a new law to prevent companies from selling into the EU market soy, beef, coffee and other commodities linked to deforestation around the world.
* The Norwegian government plans to make its first awards in an offshore wind power tender by the summer or autumn of 2023, it said on Tuesday as it published long-awaited criteria for companies to take part in the bidding.
* Up to 41 percent of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Finland are preparing to carry out layoffs, and 10 percent consider it possible that they may go bankrupt next year, the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) said in a press release published on Monday.
* The Dutch Rabobank warned on Monday that after impressive recovery growth rates in 2021 and 2022, the economy in the Netherlands is expected to witness slower growth in the next two years.
* A total of 331 companies filed for bankruptcy in Denmark in November, the highest number in 13 years, according to a new report published by SMVdanmark on Monday.
* Cameroon's parliament on Monday approved a budget of 6,345.1 billion xaf (about 10 billion USD) for the 2023 financial year, representing an increase of 4.4 percent compared to the previous financial year.
* Explosions at a railway in Thailand's southern Songkhla province killed at least three people and injured four others, local media reported on Tuesday.
* At least 34 people died when a landslide buried a bus in northwestern Colombia on Sunday, the government disaster agency said on Monday.
* A 6.2-magnitude earthquake rattled Indonesia's Bali and Java islands on Tuesday, the country's geophysics agency said.
