* Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev was re-elected with 87.1 percent of the vote in a snap presidential election on Sunday, the country's Central Election Commission said on Monday.
* A spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) condemned the U.S. plan to send a strategic nuclear submarine to the Korean Peninsula in a press statement on Monday.
* U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Downing Street on Monday to meet with British Prime Minster Rishi Sunak, where Ukraine is expected to dominate their discussions.
* Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that he will discuss with Russian President Vladimir Putin the extension of a deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain from its Black Sea ports beyond the current July 17 deadline.
* Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed the expansion of NATO in a phone call ahead of the alliance's summit in Lithuania, the Turkish foreign ministry said on Monday.
* Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will not run for a fifth term in office and will leave politics following the elections in November, he said on Monday.
* Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Sunday announced his candidacy for the upcoming presidential election scheduled for Aug. 26.
* West African regional bloc ECOWAS has chosen Nigerian President Bola Tinubu as its new chairman at a time of deepening insecurity, including military coups and terrorism, in the region.
* Israel's parliament was scheduled on Monday to hold a first vote on a bill that limits some Supreme Court power, part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rebooted judicial overhaul that has plunged the country into deep political crisis.
* Thousands of demonstrators gathered in central Stockholm on Sunday to protest against the burning of the Quran in Sweden.
* The Libyan government announced on Sunday that a 10-year ban on Libyan civil flights over Italian airspace has been lifted.
* Saudi Arabia and France have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in the energy sector, with a focus on clean energy generated from renewable resources, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported Sunday.
* Forty al-Shabab militants were on Sunday killed by Somali National Army (SNA)'s elite forces, Danab, during a joint operation with regional and international forces in lower Juba region of southern Somalia, officials confirmed.
* Spain's Energy Minister Teresa Ribera said on Monday she hoped European lawmakers would support this week a flagship law to restore nature, so that negotiations among European Union institutions can start.
* Japan posted a current account surplus of 1.86 trillion yen (13 billion USD) in May, up 2.4-fold from a year earlier, government data showed Monday.
* Cambodia registered 23.69 billion USD in its international trade during the first half of 2023, down 13 percent from 27.24 billion dollars in the same period last year, said an official report released Monday.
* The Philippines' Department of Finance (DOF) and the World Bank (WB) have signed a loan agreement of 600 million USD to fund a rural development project that will modernize agriculture and improve infrastructure, the finance department said on Monday.
* The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity has said Iraq lost 5,000 megawatts of electricity because of a shortage of gas supply by Iran, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) reported Sunday.
* The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is committed to embracing artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and tools across various sectors to accelerate the country's digital transformation, said Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, the county's minister of state for artificial intelligence, digital economy, and remote work applications.
* Mozambique's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose from 50.5 to 51.3 in June, the fastest monthly rise in output for a year, according to a survey made by Standard Bank.
* Algeria's state-owned oil company Sonatrach and French energy giant TotalEnergies signed on Sunday in Algiers two contracts worth 739 million USD.
* Heavy rainstorms poured over parts of New York and Pennsylvania on Sunday, with first responders rescuing people stuck in vehicles along flooded roadways and with more wet weather on the way for the U.S. Northeast.
