* The newly elected president of Montenegro Jakov Milatovic took the oath of office on Saturday at the country's parliament in Podgorica.
* U.S. President Joe Biden invited his Japanese and South Korean counterparts for another meeting in Washington, following on from their trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Group of Seven (G7) summit, a senior U.S. official said.
* Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he met South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and discussed Kyiv's efforts in its conflict with Russia.
* Russia said on Saturday that its forces had taken full control of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut, also known as Artyomovsk, while the Ukrainian side said the situation there was critical.
* Sporadic fighting between Sudan's warring factions could be heard in the capital Khartoum on Sunday, residents said, after a Saudi and U.S.-brokered deal for a week-long ceasefire raised hopes of some let-up in the five-week conflict.
* Lebanon needs to elect a new president quickly to restore confidence in the country and reinstate its role in the Arab world, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Saturday.
* Qatar condemned on Saturday the recent armed attack on its embassy building in Khartoum, which resulted in significant damage to the premises, Qatar News Agency reported. All embassy staff had been evacuated beforehand, according to the report.
* China's electricity consumption, a key barometer of economic activity, saw a steady expansion in the first four months of the year, official data showed. Total power use in China expanded 4.7 percent year on year to 2.81 trillion kilowatt-hours in the January-April period, according to the National Energy Administration.
* U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he plans to speak with top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy on Sunday as part of increasingly last-minute talks over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling.
* The 27th Iran International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition concluded on Saturday. Over 1,500 domestic firms and more than 200 foreign companies from 13 countries took part in the four-day event.
* Governments should consider vaccinating birds against bird flu to avoid the virus - which has already killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide - turning into a new pandemic, the head of the World Animal Health Organisation (WOAH) said.
* Around 500 people have been evacuated from their homes due to a wildfire that has so far burned 8,500 hectares of land in the southwestern Spanish region of Extremadura, according to sources from local authorities on Saturday.
* At least 12 people died and an unspecified number were injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the Central American country's government said.
* At least ten people were killed and nine others injured in an armed attack targeting a group of amateur rally drivers in a car race in the Mexican state of Baja California on Saturday, local media reported.
* An F-18 multi-use fighter belonging to the Spanish Air Force crashed on Saturday at the air force base on the outskirts of the city of Zaragoza, northeast Spain, causing injury to the pilot's legs.
* Three terrorists were killed in an operation by Pakistani security forces in the Tank district of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the military said late Saturday night.
* A military helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's northern Samangan province on Sunday, a local media outlet the Tolonews reported.
