* The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has called for strengthening the first-line units in the southern border and turning the border line into an "impregnable fortress," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Monday.
* Russian air defense forces shot down 1,045 Ukrainian drones over the past 24 hours, along with one Neptune-MD guided missile and one Flamingo cruise missile, the Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday warned that "the clock is ticking" for Iran, threatening again that the country would be left with nothing if its leadership failed to act quickly.
* Iran has submitted its response to the U.S. revisions to the conflict resolution plan, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Monday.
* The Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah) concluded the elections on Sunday to choose members of its two highest leadership bodies, the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council, at the close of its eighth general conference. A statement by the conference said that voter turnout for the elections reached 94.64 percent.
* The Saudi Ministry of Defence announced Sunday the interception of three drones after they entered the kingdom's airspace from Iraq. The ministry's official spokesperson, Brigadier General Turki Al-Maliki, said on social media platform X that the ministry reserves the right to respond at the appropriate time and place.
* Israeli naval forces began intercepting ships from the Global Sumud Flotilla on Monday morning, Israel's state-owned Kan TV reported, after the vessels set sail from southern Türkiye last week in a third attempt to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza and deliver aid to Palestinians.
* Yemen's Houthi group shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone in the country's province of Marib on Sunday, Iranian media reported on Monday. Media footage showed the crash and wreckage of the drone. There has been no confirmation from the United States regarding the incident.
* Pakistani security forces have killed more than 35 terrorists and arrested three key commanders during an ongoing intelligence-based operation in the southwest Balochistan province, a provincial government spokesperson said on Sunday.
* Thailand's economic growth increased in the first quarter of 2026, mainly due to accelerated overall investment, merchandise exports, and government spending amid a continued rise in private consumption, official data showed on Monday.
* Singapore's non-oil domestic exports (NODX) rose 24.5 percent year on year in April, extending the 15.3 percent increase recorded in March, official data showed on Monday.
* Israel's gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by an annual rate of 3.3 percent in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the previous quarter, according to figures issued by the state's Central Bureau of Statistics on Sunday. This marks a reversal after Israel's economy grew 2.9 percent in the fourth quarter and maintained that pace through 2025.
* The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Sunday warned the African continent and the global community over the growing risk of regional spread of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda.
* The Cambodian government has urged the public to take precautionary measures against Ebola, although the kingdom has not yet detected any case of the virus so far, the Ministry of Health said in a statement on Monday.
* The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has confirmed a case of hantavirus in a cruise passenger currently isolating in British Columbia following laboratory testing.
* The hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius arrived at the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Monday for disinfection, concluding a voyage that had drawn the attention of international health authorities.
