* The first round of the Senegalese presidential election started on Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0800 GMT). According to statistics from the General Directorate of Elections, approximately 7.37 million voters, over 7 million domestically and the remainder abroad are expected to cast their ballots to elect the fifth president of Senegal.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday called a terrorist attack in Moscow bloody and barbaric, vowing retribution for the perpetrators, organizers and financiers.
* One person was killed and four others were injured in a missile attack launched by Ukrainian forces against the Russian city of Sevastopol, a local official said on Sunday.
* Kiev was hit by a wave of explosions on Sunday morning as Russia launched the third attack on Ukraine in four days, Ukrainian authorities said.
* China's crude oil output posted steady growth in the first two months of this year, official data showed. The output totaled 35.11 million tonnes in the January-February period, rising 2.9 percent year on year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
* President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law a $1.2 trillion spending package, keeping the U.S. government funded through a fiscal year that began six months ago.
* A $1.2 trillion government funding bill passed by Congress will allow the U.S. to lend up to $21 billion to an International Monetary Fund (IMF) trust to help the world’s poorest countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Saturday.
* The World Bank will publish more of its proprietary data, including on debt defaults, starting next week as part of a push to attract more private sector investment to developing countries, World Bank President Ajay Banga said.
* United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip, reiterating his call for an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian enclave.
* At least 19 Palestinians were killed and 23 others wounded in an Israeli shelling of a gathering of Palestinians awaiting food aid south of the city of Gaza, Hamas said Saturday, while Israel denies the claim.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed on Saturday ways to enhance cooperation between the two countries.
* Tunisian maritime authorities rescued 1,178 undocumented immigrants off its eastern coast and thwarted 28 attempts at illegal sea crossings to Italy on Saturday, the Tunisian National Guard said in a statement.
* The 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68) on Friday delivered robust commitments by United Nations (UN) member states to strengthen financing and institutions to eradicate women's and girls' poverty.
* Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Saturday reaffirmed their commitment to providing both diplomatic and military support to find lasting solutions to the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Mozambique.
* About 79 percent of Afghanistan's population lacks access to potable water, according to a report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Afghanistan.
* At least 17 people were killed in Somalia on Saturday after Islamist group al Shabaab attacked a military base. The Busley base, in the Lower Shabelle region in the country's southwest, was briefly occupied by the attackers, security officials and the group said.
* A magnitude 6.1 quake struck off the coast of Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, the country's geophysics agency said on Sunday. In a post on X, the agency said there was no tsunami potential.
