* Australia's new governor-general has been sworn in as the official representative of the British monarch in the country. Samantha Mostyn was on Monday sworn in as Australia's 28th governor-general at an official ceremony at Parliament House in Canberra.
* The French far-right wing party National Rally (RN) is leading the first round of France's snap legislative elections held on Sunday, according to projections published by research firm Elabe.
* Bulgaria's President Rumen Radev handed Rosen Zhelyazkov of the centre-right GERB party a mandate to try to form a government on Monday, after it won the most seats in a parliamentary election last month.
* South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the lineup of his new national executive cabinet Sunday, comprising ministers from various political parties that form the Government of National Unity (GNU).
* The ruling Mongolian People's Party (MPP) secured a narrow majority in Friday's regular parliamentary elections, as confirmed by the official results from the General Election Commission (GEC).
* Iran's Constitutional Council on Sunday validated the first round's results of the country's 14th presidential election, meaning candidates could now begin electoral campaigns for the run-off.
* Uruguay held primary elections on Sunday to nominate the presidential hopeful for every political party in the general elections scheduled for Oct. 27.
* Rwanda's National Electoral Commission has released the final list of voters, indicating 9.7 million people are eligible to vote in July presidential and legislative elections across Rwanda's 30 districts and the diaspora.
* Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday released some 1.5 million baby fish and young shrimps into a natural lake in Kampong Cham in the country's southeast part to celebrate the 19th National Fish Day.
* Australia said on Monday it had more than doubled the visa fee for international students, the latest move by the government to rein in record migration that has intensified pressure on an already tight housing market.
* The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has killed 124 terrorists and arrested 322 others in the first six months of the ongoing year, an official statement said.
* Japan launched its new flagship H3 rocket on Monday morning carrying the Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4), the live feed of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) showed.
* Indonesia has vehemently condemned Israel's decision to legalize five Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank, the country's foreign ministry announced on Monday.
* Israel's military said on Sunday 18 of its soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, when a drone struck their position in the occupied Golan Heights, which border Lebanon.
* The Palestinian presidency on Sunday rejected any foreign presence on Palestinian lands, in response to Israeli statements calling for the handover of the Gaza Strip to international forces.
* Iraqi explosive experts have defused six bombs, believed to have been planted by Islamic State (IS) militants years ago in the historic al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, a police source said on Sunday.
* A fresh round of negotiations between the Yemeni government and Houthi representatives began Sunday in Muscat, focusing on the exchange of prisoners and detainees.
* Japan's economy shrank more than initially reported in the first quarter, the government said in a rare unscheduled revision to gross domestic product (GDP) data on Monday, darkening prospects for a fragile recovery.
* South Korea's export has grown for the ninth straight month due to robust demand for locally-made tech products, government data showed Monday.
* China's courier sector handled more than 80 billion parcels in the first half of this year, the State Post Bureau said Monday. The figure was achieved 59 days earlier than in 2023, data from the bureau showed.
* Saudi Arabia announced Sunday that foreign direct investment (FDI) net inflows grew by 5.6 percent in the first quarter of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.
* New vaping regulations in Australia came into force on Monday, moving e-cigarettes behind pharmacy counters in a bid to curb youth vaping although opponents forced the government to walk back a stricter prohibition.
* Tropical Storm Chris has formed near eastern Mexico and will begin to weaken after landfall, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said in an advisory on Sunday.
* India received 11% less rainfall than normal in June as all regions except the south received below-average rains after the monsoon lost momentum in mid-June, weather department data showed on Monday.
* The Philippines has tallied 205 deaths due to dengue from Jan. 1 to June 15 this year, as cases started to rise amid the wet season, the country's Department of Health (DOH) said Monday.
* A natural gas explosion in Turkey's western province of Izmir on Sunday killed five people and injured at least 60 others.
