* French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced Sunday night to submit his resignation to French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, following the defeat of Macron's centrist coalition in the legislative elections.
* Iran's President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian is set to be inaugurated in early August, according to a senior Iranian lawmaker cited by the official news agency IRNA on Sunday.
* At the meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Beijing, China's President Xi Jinping said that the current focus was to cool down the situation in Ukraine as much as possible and for the international community to create conditions and support for the resumption of direct dialogue between Ukraine and Russia.
* The Philippines and Japan boosted their defence ties and signed a reciprocal access agreement (RAA) on Monday, saying they were seeking stability in the region.
* Hungary's Viktor Orban said on Monday he would visit Washington after already making stops in Kyiv, Moscow and Beijing, his Instagram page showed on Monday.
* Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) blocked an attempt by Ukraine to organise the hijacking of a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber and fly it to Ukraine, the FSB said on Monday.
* U.S. and Australian officials said on Monday they were committed to improving financial connectivity in the Pacific, as lenders and policymakers from across the region met to discuss bolstering banking services.
* Australian police ordered three nights of curfew on Monday in the outback tourist town of Alice Springs after several incidents of violence, including an alleged assault on four off-duty police officers.
* China will lift a bird flu-related ban for Belgium based on the results of a risk analysis, the country's Customs bureau and Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement issued on Monday, with the measure effective immediately.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed on Sunday readiness to mend ties between Turkey and Syria, emphasizing his country's desire to restore Turkey-Syria relations to their previous levels.
* Nigerian leader Bola Tinubu on Sunday called on West African leaders to work together to establish and sustain a regional standby force in the face of the growing security threats in the region.
* Israeli forces pounded Gaza City early on Monday and columns of tanks advanced into the heart of the city from different directions in what residents said was one of the heaviest attacks since Oct 7.
* United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, issued an appeal Sunday for the immediate and unconditional release of UN staff, aid workers, and civil society members arbitrarily detained by the Houthi group in Sanaa.
* Hezbollah said Sunday it attacked with drones at Israel's technical and electronic reconnaissance center in Mount Hermon, north of annexed Golan Heights, in response to Israel's killing of a senior Hezbollah member a day earlier.
* Bolivia is putting 24 suspects on trial for their role in a failed coup attempt on June 26, with the possibility of facing up to 25 years in prison, Attorney General Cesar Adalid Siles Bazan said Sunday.
* An Iranian destroyer, dubbed Sahand, capsized off the coast of the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on Sunday, wounding several individuals, according to the Iranian Army.
* The unemployment rate in the Philippines increased to 4.1 percent in May from 4 percent in April, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Monday.
* The 2024 Mongolian Economic Forum commenced on Monday with the goal of promoting the country's economic growth and exploring solutions to address pressing issues facing Mongolia.
* June 2024 marks the 12th consecutive month of global temperatures reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) level, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service on Monday.
* Hurricane Beryl strengthened as it neared the Texas coast on Sunday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said, forcing the closure of major oil ports, flight cancellations and a warning it would be a deadly storm for communities hit.
* Heavy rains flooded roads and railway lines on Monday in India's financial capital of Mumbai, disrupting flights and forcing the closure of schools and colleges, while overflowing rivers elsewhere affected more than 2 million people.
* At least 12 people died and 18 are missing after a torrential rain caused a landslide in an illegal gold mine over the weekend in Indonesia's Sulawesi island, officials said on Monday.
