* Chinese Premier Li Qiang said Sunday that BRICS countries should strive to become the vanguard in advancing the reform of global governance.
* The BRICS grouping, which has emerged as a strong and principled force, represents an opportunity to shape a more balanced and just international order, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said.
* Russian air defense forces shot down six Ukrainian drones attempting to attack Moscow on Sunday, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said. Specialists from emergency services are working at the crash sites of the debris, Sobyanin wrote in his Telegram channel.
* The Swiss embassy in Tehran reopened on Sunday after being temporarily closed on June 20 due to instability in Iran. Ambassador Nadine Olivieri Lozano and a small team returned to Tehran on Saturday, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) said in a statement.
* Tanzania is set to host a high-level Pan-African summit focusing on the future of social security on the continent, a senior official announced Sunday.
* Israel's military issued an evacuation warning to Palestinians in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, saying it was launching heavy bombardment in the area.
* Houthis on Sunday reaffirmed the group's support for the Palestinian people and its hostility toward Israel and the United States.
* The Indonesian government has raised its rice production projection for 2026 to 33.8 million tons, up from the earlier estimate of 32 million tons made at the beginning of this year, Minister of Agriculture Andi Amran Sulaiman announced on Monday.
* China's textile industry posted stable growth in the first four months of the year, official data showed Monday. The total value-added output of textile companies with an annual main business revenue of at least 20 million yuan (about 2.8 million USD) went up 4.2 percent year on year during the January-April period, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
* The Lao government plans to release more than 65 million fish fingerlings and other aquatic species into rivers across Laos in 2025, as part of its efforts to conserve biodiversity and support sustainable ecosystems.
* Indonesia is preparing more than 10,000 hectares of agricultural land to grow rice and vegetables, which will be supplied to Palestine in the future, Agriculture Minister Andi Amran Sulaiman announced on Monday.
* Up to 80 people have died while more than 40 people remain missing on Sunday, three days after hours of heavy rain led to major flash flooding in the south-central U.S. state of Texas, authorities said Sunday afternoon.
* Torrential monsoon rains and flash floods have claimed at least 72 lives and injured 130 others across Pakistan since June 26, the disaster management authority said on Sunday.
* Japan's weather agency on Sunday issued heatstroke alerts in 19 prefectures, including this season's first for central Tokyo and Kanagawa, as dangerously high temperatures gripped much of the country.
* Firefighters in Greece were battling more than 50 wildfires across the country on Sunday, as authorities warned of heightened danger due to an intensifying heatwave and strong winds.
* At least 21 people died and three others were injured on Sunday after a truck and a bus collided head-on and went up in flames in Nigeria's northern state of Kano.
* Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, situated in the Indonesian eastern province of East Nusa Tenggara, erupted on Monday morning, spewing a towering ash cloud 18 km high above its summit, the country's volcanology agency said.
