* Polls opened in Montenegro on Sunday for a snap election many hope will bring in a new government to implement economic reforms, improve infrastructure and take the NATO member state closer to European Union membership.
* Japan extended its alert on ballistic missile defences on Sunday despite the expiration of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea's deadline for launching a satellite had passed.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that the counteroffensive actions in his country are underway, the government-run Ukrinform news agency reported.
* India's federal government Saturday set up a peace committee for the strife-torn state of Manipur which has been witnessing month-long violent clashes leaving nearly 100 people dead and over 300 others injured.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday talked over the phone with Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on bilateral ties, according to the prime minister's office.
* Honduras opened an embassy in China on Sunday, Chinese state media reported, after the Central American nation cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan earlier this year.
* Iran's supreme leader said on Sunday that a deal with the West over Tehran's nuclear work was possible if the country's nuclear infrastructure remained intact, amid a stalemate between Tehran and Washington to revive a 2015 nuclear pact.
* The UN envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg on Saturday welcomed a recent increase in flights between Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, and Amman, the capital of Jordan.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Saturday exchanged views on ways to expand bilateral relations.
* The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the move to impose an entry visa on Sudanese aims to regulate, not restrict, their entry to Egypt.
* The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the United Nations have condemned the hotel terrorist attack that occurred in the capital, Mogadishu on Friday in which nine people were killed and ten others wounded.
* Water levels in the flood-affected regions of Kherson, following the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant dam, continue to recede, said acting governor of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo on Sunday.
* A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.2 and depth of 140 km (87 miles) hit northern Japan's Hokkaido prefecture on Sunday evening, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
* Japan's weather agency on Sunday said the rainy season has officially begun across the country, as most regions are experiencing soggy weather.
