* The ruling Mongolian People's Party (MPP) nominated Nyam-Osor Uchral as Mongolia's new prime minister at the party's conference on Sunday. Uchral, aged 39, is the chairman of the MPP and currently serves as chairman of the State Great Hural, the mongolian parliament.
* The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has overseen a ground jet test of an upgraded solid-fuel engine and an assessment test of the country's new-type main battle tank, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Sunday.
* Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao has expressed support for the adoption of the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on e-commerce with interim arrangements announced on Saturday.
* Venezuela's Vice Foreign Minister for Europe and North America Oliver Blanco announced Saturday that the Venezuelan government has reclaimed its embassy in the United States.
* Seoul's drift toward NATO could seriously damage ties with Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko warned in an interview with TASS on Saturday.
* The Pentagon is preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, as thousands of U.S. soldiers and Marines arrive in the Middle East for what could become a dangerous new phase of the war should U.S. President Donald Trump choose to escalate, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
* The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Saturday that a task force of 3,500 marines and sailors arrived in the Middle East on Friday.
* Pakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held a telephone conversation late Saturday with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, promising that Pakistan will continue to support efforts aimed at restoring regional peace and stability, the Pakistani foreign office said on Sunday.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he had instructed the military to "further expand" the "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon along the Israeli border, adding that Israel is "determined to fundamentally change the situation in the north."
* The Israeli military said Sunday it struck infrastructures in Tehran and elsewhere across the country.
* Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed on Saturday its air defense has struck a U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon and an MQ-9 Reaper drone in the country's southern airspace.
* Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warned Sunday that it now considers all Israeli and U.S. universities in West Asia "legitimate targets," following attacks on Iranian universities.
* Despite increasing uncertainty in the global energy market due to geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, Fiji's electricity supply remains stable and secure, Energy Fiji Limited (EFL) said in a statement Saturday.
* Inflation in Laos jumped to 9.7 percent year on year in March from 6.2 percent in February, according to the Lao Statistics Bureau on Sunday. The highest price rise was recorded in the goods and services category, which stood at 39.8 percent, according to a report released on the bureau's website.
* Traders from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan have signed a series of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) valued at 514.8 million USD, Afghanistan's Ministry of Industry and Commerce announced Sunday.
* The governments of the Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania on Sunday announced free public transport initiatives in response to rising fuel prices.
* Türkiye said on Saturday it has detected 275 "suspicious objects," including mines and drones, in the Black Sea since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022.
* A missile attack from Iran sparked a blaze at a factory in an industrial chemical complex in southern Israel on Sunday, authorities said.
* Thousands of people took to the streets in dozens of protests across Greece on Saturday to voice opposition to U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran.
* The Palestinian presidency warned on Saturday that continued fighting in Gaza and escalating settler violence in the West Bank risked destabilizing the region.
* The United Nations on Saturday urged Yemen's Houthis to refrain from any further involvement in the conflict in the Middle East, including through missile or drone attacks, noting that the group's attacks risk further expanding military conflict.
* Yemen's Houthi group said on Saturday that it had carried out fresh attacks on vital sites in southern Israel using cruise missiles and drones, marking its second claimed attack of the day amid escalating regional tensions.
* Sri Lanka has extended the state of public emergency by one month following the disaster caused by Cyclone Ditwah, according to a gazette notification issued under the signature of Nandika Sanath Kumanayake, secretary to the president.
