* Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to reposition troops to alleviate tensions following a brief conflict that took place earlier in a border area, Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Sunday.
* Republic of Korean President Lee Jae-myung on Monday held phone talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, according to Lee's office.
* Russia has delivered the first batch of 1,212 bodies of Ukrainian soldiers to the border exchange point pursuant to the Istanbul accords, said Lieutenant General Alexander Zorin on Sunday.
* Russian air defenses shot down 131 Ukrainian drones in the last 24 hours, including 73 devices outside the air defense zone, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
* A senior police officer was killed and some other personnel accompanying him were wounded Monday when a pressure Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said.
* The 2025 Norwegian Festival of Literature, the largest literary festival in the Nordic region, concluded on Sunday after a week of vibrant events that drew tens of thousands of visitors and featured acclaimed authors from across the globe.
* The third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), to be held in Nice, France, from June 9 to 13, 2025, will center on three core objectives: conserving marine biodiversity, eliminating harmful fisheries subsidies, and advancing the global "30x30" target.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reaffirmed Cairo's ongoing efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza during a phone call on Sunday with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan, Egypt's Foreign Ministry said.
* Israel said on Monday it diverted the Madleen, a boat headed for the war-torn Gaza Strip, after intercepting it at sea. The yacht, carrying humanitarian aid and 12 international activists including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, was attempting to reach the blockaded Palestinian enclave.
* Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib announced on Sunday the country had obtained a "precious trove" of Israel's strategic, operational, and scientific data and documents, which he said would be published soon.
* The Israeli military said on Sunday it had recovered the body of Mohammed Sinwar, head of Hamas' military wing, from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip and taken it to Israel.
* Train services across the Netherlands will come to a halt on Tuesday as a strike by railway unions expands to cover much of the country, Dutch Railways (NS) announced on Sunday.
* Foreign-invested firms in China recorded a 4 percent year-on-year growth in exports and imports in May, marking the fourth consecutive month of growth, official data showed Monday.
* Cambodia's trade volume with its fellow ASEAN member states hit 5.9 billion USD in the first four months of 2025, up 4.6 percent from 5.64 billion dollars over the same period last year, said an official report on Monday.
* Japan's economy contracted an annualized real 0.2 percent in the January-March period from the previous quarter, revised up from the initial reading of a 0.7 percent decline, government data showed on Monday.
* Japan's current account surplus in April expanded 3.2 percent from a year earlier to 2.26 trillion yen (about 15.6 billion USD), driven by a smaller trade deficit, data from the Ministry of Finance showed Monday.
* Republic of Korea's jobless claims fell in four months due to weaker demand in health and welfare, public administration, and lodging and eatery industries, government data showed Monday.
* Mongolia attracted a total of 226,364 foreign tourists since the beginning of 2025, according to official data released by the Mongolian Tourism Organization on Monday.
* Myanmar aims to export 350,000 to 380,000 tons of rubber in the 2025-2026 fiscal year (April 2025-March 2026), an official from the Myanmar Rubber Planters and Producers Association told Xinhua on Sunday.
* Mozambique's external accounts came under pressure in 2024, with the combined current and capital account deficit widening to 2.23 billion USD, or 10.1 percent of its domestic gross product (GDP), according to the latest Annual Balance of Payments Bulletin 2024 from the Bank of Mozambique.
* Sri Lanka's Ministry of Education has issued instructions to prevent the spread of dengue and Chikungunya in schools across the country, local media reported on Sunday.
* At least 15 people were killed when a bus transporting students was struck by a multipurpose vehicle along the East-West Highway in Perak state early on Monday, authorities said.
* A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck central Colombia on Sunday morning, and the tremor was felt in the capital here, local authorities said. The earthquake with a depth of less than 30 km occurred at 8:08 a.m. local time (1308 GMT). The epicenter was located in Paratebueno, the central department of Cundinamarca, the Colombian Geological Service said.
* An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 jolted Western Indian-Antarctic Ridge at 21:15:07 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 47.83 degrees south latitude and 115.95 degrees east longitude.
