* Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump will have an in-depth exchange of views on major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and world peace and development, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Monday.
* Russia and Ukraine on Sunday accused each other of violating a declared three-day ceasefire.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Ukraine has submitted to the Russian side a list of 1,000 detainees for the planned prisoner exchange, according to the presidential press service.
* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appealed to citizens to reduce their consumption of fuels like petrol and diesel, and to shun buying gold over the next year to save foreign exchange.
* New Zealand has refined its fuel response plan to emphasize flexibility and simplify rationing measures, as global fuel shortage persists amid Middle East volatility.
* Cambodia exported products worth 11.12 billion USD in the first four months of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 21.7 percent, said a General Department of Customs and Excise report released on Monday. The top five export destinations for the Southeast Asian country are the United States, Vietnam, Japan, China, and Canada, the report said.
* Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) and Bank Indonesia (BI) have signed a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen bilateral cooperation in promoting regional financial stability and sustainable economic growth, the two central banks said Monday.
* Pakistan relays Iran's response to the United States immediately after receiving, official sources told Xinhua.
* Iran's latest response to a U.S. plan is "totally unacceptable," U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday.
* Iran rejected the latest U.S. proposal as tantamount to surrender, calling instead for an end to the war, the removal of sanctions and the lifting of the naval blockade in its response to the draft plan, which U.S. President Donald Trump described as "totally unacceptable."
* U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the United States is monitoring Iranian enriched uranium buried under the rubble, and the U.S. Space Force takes charge of the matter.
* A U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jet squawked 7700 emergency signal on Monday morning as it was flying over the Gulf of Oman, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.
* A top Iranian diplomat on Sunday warned that the presence of French and British warships in the Strait of Hormuz to accompany the U.S. "illegal and internationally unlawful" actions will be met with a "decisive and immediate" response from Iran's armed forces.
* An oil tanker named Agios Fanourios I on Sunday passed through the Strait of Hormuz along an Iran-designated route after coordinating with Iranian authorities, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday.
* The Israeli military said Monday that a reservist was killed by a Hezbollah explosive drone attack near the Lebanon border on Sunday, bringing to 18 the number of Israeli soldiers killed since the current round of fighting with Hezbollah began on March 2.
* Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said on Sunday that Lebanon is open to a peace agreement with Israel once its demands are met, stressing that Beirut currently focuses on "stopping hostilities and ending the war."
* A total of 978 Afghan families comprising 5,046 people returned to Afghanistan from neighboring countries in a single day, the official Bakhtar news agency said Monday.
* At least 15 police personnel were killed and several others injured after a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a police installation in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, official sources said on Sunday.
* The General Staff of the Malian Armed Forces announced on Sunday that Malian military aircraft carried out targeted airstrikes against armed terrorist groups in several localities in the Gao region on May 9.
* Australians repatriated from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius will undergo quarantine at a facility in Perth for at least three weeks, Health Minister Mark Butler said Monday, confirming none show symptoms.
* Twenty British nationals evacuated from the hantavirus-affected cruise ship MV Hondius were isolated in a northwest England hospital upon their return on Sunday, as authorities stepped up outbreak containment and monitoring.
* An airplane carrying passengers and part of the crew from the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius, where the Andes virus was detected, arrived at Eindhoven Air Base in the Netherlands on Sunday evening, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) confirmed.
* Four German passengers have been evacuated from the cruise ship MV Hondius following a Hantavirus outbreak, said German public broadcaster ARD on its news website Tagesschau Monday.
* A French woman who traveled aboard the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius tested positive for the Andes hantavirus during her return to France, French Health Minister Stephanie Rist said Monday.
