* Poland's new Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in neighbouring Ukraine on Monday to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, his office said, aiming to further strengthen relations as the crisis with Russia nears the two-year mark.
* The humanitarian situation in the Gaza strip, currently besieged by Israel in its war against militant group Hamas, 'could not be worse', European Union chief diplomat Josep Borrell said on Monday.
* Jordan's foreign minister lambasted the Israeli government's "radical racist agenda" on Monday saying that it was defying the world in its refusal to accept a two-state solution for Israel and Palestinians.
* Ukrainian forces hit a market in the west of Donetsk with a deadly artillery strike on Sunday, killing at least 27 people and injuring 25 others, local media reported on Monday.
* Nearly 9,000 people, according to the police, participated in a march in Brussels on Sunday, demanding concrete measures from Belgium to establish an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and ensure justice for the Palestinian people.
* The Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) of Yemen convened an emergency meeting on Sunday to address the deteriorating security situation in the country and the military escalation by the Houthi forces.
* A joint military training between the Pakistan Army and Royal Saudi Land Forces kicked off on Sunday in Okara district in Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province, the Pakistani military said.
* A massive blast was heard on Monday morning at an industrial park in the central Iranian city of Garmsar, Semnan province, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
* China kept its position as Israel's largest source of commodity imports for the fourth consecutive year in 2023, data released by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics showed on Sunday.
* The Canadian federal government announced Sunday that a national summit on combatting auto theft will be held to ensure a coordinated response to this serious issue.
* Morocco's annual inflation, measured by the consumer price index, dropped to 6.1% in 2023 from 6.6% a year earlier, Morocco's statistics agency said.
* Mongolia will hold a festival in its capital to promote the development of winter sports and tourism this weekend, Ulan Bator's Tourism Department said on Monday.
* Britain's rail network was disrupted, flights were cancelled and thousands of homes were left without power on Monday after the country was battered by Storm Isha overnight.
* The series of earthquakes of up to 7.6 magnitude that rocked central Japan earlier this month has caused land upheavals of more than 2 meters in some places along the Noto Peninsula's northern coast, local experts said.
