* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree on Saturday about holding new Palestinian National Council (PNC) elections before the end of 2025.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Kiev has proposed to hold a new round of peace talks with Moscow next week.
* New Zealand and Canada have settled a longstanding dairy trade dispute under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
* The Iranian and Russian naval forces will launch a three-day joint maritime exercise in the Caspian Sea starting Monday. Named "CASAREX2025," the drill will be hosted by the Iranian Navy's Northern Fleet, according to a statement published on the Iranian army's news website.
* Russian forces carried out a massive strike on enterprises of Ukraine's military-industrial complex, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
* The United States said on Friday that the country has rejected amendments to the international health regulations adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) last year.
* More than 1,500 Afghan refugee families returned to their homeland, Afghanistan, from the neighboring Iran and Pakistan in a single day on Saturday, reported the state-owned Bakhtar news agency on Sunday.
* The U.S. government announced on Saturday new limits on Mexican flights, accusing Mexico of violating the bilateral air agreement on aviation access and fairness.
* Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, Syrian foreign affairs chief Asaad Al-Shaibani, and U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack held a trilateral meeting in Amman on Saturday to discuss the situation in Syria and support a ceasefire in the southern Sweida province, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
* The Israeli military expanded its offensive in Gaza on Sunday, issuing an evacuation warning to parts of central Gaza where its ground forces have rarely operated before.
* At least 73 Palestinians were killed by Israeli army fire while waiting for humanitarian aid across the Gaza Strip, the health authorities in Gaza said on Sunday.
* Israel's "continued interventions on Syrian territory" are worsening the crisis in Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Saturday, according to a report by semi-official Anadolu Agency.
* The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on Saturday that dozens of Israeli Druze civilians forcibly crossed the border into Syria overnight, amid escalating tensions following recent clashes in Syria's southern Sweida province.
Syrian interim leader Ahmad al-Sharaa on Saturday blamed retaliatory attacks by "outlawed" armed groups in the province of Sweida and Israeli airstrikes for pushing the country into a dangerous stage, calling for national unity and reconciliation in the war-torn country.
* Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on Saturday visited several military sites recently handed over by France, in what the Senegalese presidency described as "a major step" in the reconfiguration of bilateral military cooperation.
* Rwanda on Saturday welcomed the signing of a declaration of principles between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the March 23 Movement (M23) rebel group in Doha, Qatar, aimed at ending the conflict in eastern DRC.
* Sudan's Foreign Ministry on Saturday denounced the new sanctions imposed by the European Union on Sudanese individuals and entities as lacking "fair legal standards."
* African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf has welcomed the signing of a declaration of principles between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the March 23 Movement (M23) on Saturday in Doha, Qatar, to end the conflict in the eastern DRC.
* The Malian army announced on Sunday that at least 70 terrorists were killed during operations earlier this week in northern and central Mali.
* China's State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Sunday upgraded its emergency response for flood and typhoon control to Level III in the southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan in response to Typhoon Wipha.
* Fourteen people were killed and 12 others went missing after five days of torrential rain battered the Republic of Korea, the interior ministry said Sunday.
* Romania's National Meteorological Administration has issued updated heatwave warnings on Sunday, extending the current yellow code alert for high temperatures to four counties and announcing further advisories for next week.
* A series of powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday evening, with the strongest reaching a magnitude of 7.6, the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on its Telegram channel.
* At least 21 people were killed and 37 others injured on Saturday as a bus overturned on an intercity road in Iran's southern Fars province, the official news agency IRNA reported.
