* Cambodia's law on military conscription, which will require young male-adults to fulfil military obligation for two years, was enacted with immediate effect.
* China aims to raise its urban household waste recycling utilization rate to above 76 percent by the end of 2030, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Monday.
* The Japanese government is set to draw up a supplementary budget of more than 3 trillion yen (around 19 billion USD) for fiscal 2026 to cushion the impact of rising energy prices stemming from the prolonged tensions in the Middle East, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae said Monday. The draft budget could be submitted to parliament next week, she told reporters.
* Indonesia will require around 8,600 trillion rupiah (about 486 billion USD) in financing in 2027 to support its economic growth target of up to 7.5 percent, the Financial Services Authority (OJK) said on Monday.
* Indonesia is opening wider opportunities for international investment in its forestry carbon market under a new regulation aimed at simplifying carbon trading procedures and increasing the supply of high-integrity carbon credits, a senior official from the Ministry of Forestry said on Monday.
* Singapore maintained its 2026 economic growth forecast at 2 percent to 4 percent on Monday, citing stronger-than-expected first-quarter expansion driven by artificial intelligence (AI)-related demand, even as risks from the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict cloud the global outlook.
* Sri Lanka began offering a free Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) for tourist purposes to nationals of 40 countries on Monday. The free ETA will be valid for 30 days and will apply to nationals holding diplomatic, official, service, or ordinary passports.
* Cyprus' major political parties largely maintained their support in Sunday's parliamentary elections, while the National Popular Front (ELAM) emerged as the third-largest force in parliament after posting strong gains.
* Beninese President Romuald Wadagni signed a decree on late Sunday announcing the lineup of the new government. According to the decree, the new government consists of 19 ministers and 5 minister-delegates.
* The Russian military carried out a series of missile and drone strikes against Ukrainian military targets, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
* Two people were killed and 86 others injured on Sunday after a large-scale Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital, a Kiev city official has said. Thousands of rescuers, utility workers, and volunteers have been deployed to nearly 50 locations across the city to deal with the aftermath of the strikes, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of the Kiev City Military Administration.
* Jordan and Venezuela signed four cooperation agreements on Sunday during the first visit by a Venezuelan foreign minister to the kingdom since the establishment of diplomatic relations more than seven decades ago.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has told U.S. negotiators not to rush into a deal with Iran because "time is on our side." The president reiterated that Iran will not be allowed to develop or procure a nuclear weapon.
* U.S. President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would not sign a final deal with Iran unless Tehran dismantled its nuclear program and removed all enriched uranium from its territory, an Israeli government source said on Sunday.
* U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was prepared to enter "into very serious talks" about Iran's nuclear program if Iran reopened the Strait of Hormuz, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed that any final agreement with Iran must remove its nuclear threat.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran is ready to reassure the world that it is not seeking nuclear weapons, the official news agency IRNA reported Sunday.
* The Israeli military is prepared to resume combat operations against Iran, the army chief said on Sunday, amid reported progress in U.S.-Iran talks.
* A spokesperson for Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that a framework has been reached, but an agreement with the U.S. is not imminent. The spokesperson said Iran is negotiating an end to the war and is not currently discussing nuclear issues.
* The White House thinks it could take several days for the deal's approval by Iran's leadership, according to a report from U.S. media Axios on Sunday.
* The United States is still refusing to accept certain clauses of a potential memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Iran on ending the war, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and visiting Yemeni Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Shaya Mohsen al-Zindani on Sunday rejected any attempts to "internationalize or militarize" the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
* Omani officials, led by Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi, held talks on Sunday with an Iranian delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi on freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and the latest regional developments.
* In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Qatar on Sunday denounced the "appalling, degrading, and unacceptable" treatment by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of the detained activists from the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla.
* At least 21 people were killed and several others wounded in intensified Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon Saturday night and throughout Sunday, state media reported.
* Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said on Sunday that attempts to disarm the group would lead to its "extermination" and the gradual occupation of Lebanon, vowing that Hezbollah would continue fighting against Israel.
* Pakistan freed 373 Afghan inmates from its prisons and repatriated them to Afghanistan over the past three days, the Afghan Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced on Monday.
* Fourteen states on Sunday condemned the opening of a purported "embassy" by Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, in occupied Jerusalem, calling the move illegal and unacceptable, said a joint statement released by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
* Australia's spy chief told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach terror attack on Monday that his agency's priorities shifted from addressing terrorism threats to tackling espionage and foreign interference in the years before the attack.
* The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan has reported that 21.9 million Afghan people required humanitarian assistance across various sectors during the first three months of the current year, the local media TOLOnews reported on Sunday.
* World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Sunday that as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) scales up surveillance in its Ebola response, more than 900 suspected cases have been identified so far, including 101 confirmed cases.
* The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has warned that 10 African countries are at high risk of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, amid growing concern over regional spread.
* At least 28 people were killed on Saturday in a landslide at an illegal gold mine in Nambuangongo Municipality of Angola's northern Bengo Province, local authorities said.
