* The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has held a symposium with non-CPC personages to seek opinions and suggestions on the country's current economic situation and economic work for the second half of the year.
* Spain's opposition right-wing People's Party (PP) has won Sunday's general elections with 99.79 percent of the votes counted, while no single party garnered enough parliamentary seats to form a government.
* Gabon has validated 19 candidates, including current President Ali Bongo and several former ministers, for a presidential election next month, the election commssion said.
* China and Russia on Sunday wrapped up an air and naval exercise in the Sea of Japan aimed at "safeguarding" the security of waterways, the Chinese defence ministry said.
* A drone attack launched by Ukraine on Moscow was thwarted on Monday, said Russia's defense ministry.
* Protesters chained themselves outside Israel's parliament on Monday, as the country's president led a last minute bid for a compromise on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious judicial overhaul ahead of a crucial vote in the Knesset.
* Twelve Norwegian government ministries have been hit by a cyber attack, the Norwegian government said on Monday, the latest attack to hit the public sector of Europe's largest gas supplier and NATO's northernmost member.
* Iraq on Sunday confirmed its full support for the national dialogue in Yemen to achieve security and stability in the war-torn country.
* Jordan and Syria on Sunday held a meeting in Amman to discuss cooperation to prevent drug smuggling across Syrian borders into Jordan, the state-run Petra news agency reported.
* Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa on Sunday urged African women police officers to join forces in fighting crime.
* At least 1,200 delegates will attend the Africa Human Capital Heads of State Summit slated for July 25-26 in Tanzania's port city of Dar es Salaam, an official said on Sunday.
* Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Monday domestic inflation, which he described as the biggest problem his administration has confronted over the past 12 months, was now "moving in the right direction".
* The Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) on Sunday announced that it will release new banknotes with a denomination of 20,000 kyats on July 31.
* Pakistan has increased its power tariffs again under an International Monetary Fund deal, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday, part of moves to reduce unsustainable public debt in the power and gas sector.
* The International Monetary Fund should in the coming days finalize the basis for a staff level agreement with Argentina over a review of the country's $44 billion loan with the IMF, the Washington-based fund said on Sunday.
* Britain's private sector is growing at its weakest pace in six months in July as orders for businesses stagnate in the face of rising interest rates and still-high inflation, a survey showed on Monday.
* Archaeologists working on a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery discovered in Gaza last year have found at least 125 tombs, most with skeletons still largely intact, and two rare lead sarcophaguses, the Palestinian Ministry of Antiquities said.
* The United Arab Emirates has said it is committed to delivering targets to cut the CO2 emissions causing climate change after an independent research group said the country, which will host this year's COP28 climate summit, is far off track.
* Wildfires burned across Greece on Monday, forcing people to be evacuated from a beach on the island of Corfu while tourists crowded an airport on Rhodes after thousands fled hotels and resorts at the weekend.
* The German government is to convene a crisis meeting on Monday to discuss the impact of wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes on German holidaymakers, according to a foreign ministry spokesperson.
* The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday promised to contribute 100 million USD to support development projects in countries affected by irregular migration, the official news agency WAM reported.
* Israel has launched a plan to promote green energy in Arab cities, towns and villages throughout the country, the Israeli Energy Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
* At least 15 passengers were killed when a small ferry capsized during a short 20-minute journey near Indonesia's Sulawesi island, the national search and rescue agency said on Monday.
* At least nine people were killed on Sunday in a civilian plane crash at Port Sudan airport in the country's eastern Red Sea State, the Sudanese Armed Forces said.
