* Incumbent President Gitanas Nauseda and Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte are poised to advance to the second round of the presidential race in Lithuania, according to preliminary results.
* A Kuwaiti Emiri decree was issued on Sunday evening, announcing the forming of a new cabinet led by Prime Minister-designate, Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, according to the official news agency KUNA.
* Russian armed forces made significant gains in the Kharkov region after capturing four settlements, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
* More than 4,000 people have been evacuated in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region since Russia launched the latest round of missile attacks on Friday, regional governor Oleg Synegubov said Sunday.
* Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze vowed on Sunday to push ahead with a law on "foreign agents" that has sparked a political crisis, after opponents of the bill rallied in one of the largest protests seen since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
* Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the United States and European countries were not doing enough to pressure Israel to agree a ceasefire in Gaza, after Palestinian militant group Hamas' move to accept a truce proposal.
* Israeli tanks, under cover of heavy fire from air and ground, pushed further into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, residents and Hamas media said, while tanks and troops crossed a key highway on the outskirts of Rafah in the south.
* India expects to secure a "long-term arrangement" with Iran on the management of the Iranian port of Chabahar, India's foreign minister said on Monday as the country's shipping minister left on a visit to Iran.
* Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Turkey on Monday for talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan aimed at maintaining the positive momentum achieved in bilateral ties in recent months despite lingering problems between the neighbours.
* Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Sunday hailed the success in the expansion of cooperation between Tehran and Riyadh following their normalization of bilateral ties.
* The annual Eager Lion military drill hosted by the Jordan Armed Forces started Sunday, with ground, naval, and air forces from 33 countries, including the United States and 10 other Arab countries, partaking in it.
* Iraq and Syria signed on Sunday a memorandum of understanding for security cooperation in various areas, including combating terrorism.
* Israel has signed a wheat production agreement with Romania to reinforce its national food security, Israel's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said in a statement on Sunday.
* Iraq requested the termination of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) operations by the end of 2025, the Iraqi government said on Sunday.
* At least 27 civilians were killed and about 130 injured following the renewal of conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur State, a United Nations (UN) agency said on Sunday.
* Jordan's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said on Sunday that it has sent a letter to Iraq's Ministry of Oil demanding the extension of an oil supply deal, under which Jordan imports around 10,000 barrels of oil daily from Iraq.
* Mongolia has a total of 14,494 registered nurses, the country's National Statistics Office said Monday. According to the statistical agency, there is an average of 233 people per nurse in the country, as revealed on International Nurses Day, celebrated annually on May 12.
* South Korea's jobless claims rebounded last month on higher demand in the construction, communications and science sectors, labor ministry data showed Monday.
* Expatriate Bangladeshis sent home a total of 810 million USD in remittances in the first 10 days of May, according to Bangladesh Bank sources.
* The death toll rose to 143 from the worst extreme weather to ever hit south Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state, with 125 people missing and more than 600,000 evacuated, the Civil Defense agency said Sunday.
* The number of fatalities of the lava floods in Indonesia's West Sumatra province rose to 37 with 17 others missing, a senior official of the local disaster agency told Xinhua on Monday.
* Japan's weather agency on Monday urged people in eastern part of the country to stay on alert for landslides and flooding as torrential rain may fall in the region until Monday evening.
