* The ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) on Sunday won the most votes in the municipal, provincial, town and district council elections for the fourth term, according to preliminary results released by the National Election Committee (NEC).
* The leaders of South Korea, China and Japan on Monday issued a joint declaration covering cooperation in a range of areas from trade to climate change and ageing societies.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang praised what he called a restart in relations with Japan and South Korea as he met their leaders for the first three-way talks in four years on Monday, striving to revive trade and security dialogues hampered by global tensions.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin, making his third foreign trip since his re-election in March, arrived in Uzbekistan on Sunday and met with his counterpart Shavkat Mirziyoyev ahead of the start of formal talks.
* Incumbent President Gitanas Nauseda has won Lithuania's presidential election, beating his rival Ingrida Simonyte in the run-off on Sunday, data from the country's Central Electoral Commission (VRK) show.
* President of the Comoros Azali Assoumani, who took office Sunday in the capital of Moroni, pledged to build a "united and solidary" nation.
* South Africa is scheduled to hold national and local government elections on May 29.
* Iran's Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi on Sunday issued the directive for the beginning of the country's 14th presidential election process, the official news agency IRNA reported.
* The Tunisian Presidency on late Saturday night announced a partial cabinet reshuffle involving the interior and social affairs ministries.
* Russia has invited the Taliban to take part in the St Petersburg Economic Forum in June, the TASS state news agency reported on Monday, citing the foreign ministry.
* The African Union (AU) has reiterated the crucial need to redouble continental efforts to silence the guns in Africa and realize a conflict-free continent as it marks the 20th anniversary of the AU Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC).
* Saudi Arabia appointed a new ambassador to Syria on Sunday, state news agency SPA said, the kingdom's first envoy to Damascus since the closure of the Saudi embassy there in 2012 during the Syrian civil war.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani held a phone conversation with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Sunday on bilateral relations, including the timetable for ending the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).
* Qatar said on Monday that the latest Israeli attack on Rafah could hinder mediation efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage exchange deal, a foreign ministry statement said.
* King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday stressed the importance of stepping up international efforts to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza and ensure its uninterrupted flow, according to a statement by the Royal Hashemite Court.
* The European Union aims to agree in principle on Monday to press ahead with an EU border mission at Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.
* The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced on Sunday that it had launched a barrage of rockets towards Tel Aviv in central Israel, marking the first such attack in months.
* Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Monday that an Israeli aircraft killed Yassin Rabia, the Hamas Chief of Staff in the West Bank, Sunday evening in the southern Gazan city of Rafah.
* At least 40 people were killed and some others injured on Sunday evening in Israel's bombing of tents in northwestern Rafah, the southernmost city of the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.
* At least 35,984 Palestinians have been killed and 80,643 injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza's health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
* Profits of China's major industrial firms increased 4.3 percent year on year in the first four months of the year, official data showed Monday. The growth rate was the same with that registered in the first quarter, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
* The European Central Bank is ready to cut interest rates next month but policy must continue to be restrictive this year as wage growth will not normalise until 2026, ECB chief economist Philip Lane told the Financial Times.
* France is banking on a new push to integrate the European Union's fragmented capital markets to give them the scale needed to wean its flourishing startup sector off of dominant U.S. venture capital, ministers, CEOs and investors said.
* Singapore's business receipts index for the service industries increased 10.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter this year, the Department of Statistics said Monday.
* Israel's natural gas exports to Egypt increased by 39 percent in 2023 compared to 2022, according to an annual report published by the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure on Sunday.
* The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said, moves influenza experts say could curb the threat of a pandemic.
* At least 15 people have died in the southern U.S. states of Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky after powerful storms and tornados hit the region.
* At least seven people died in Bangladesh due to the devastations of cyclone Remal, which lashed parts of the South Asian country with heavy rain and strong wind on Sunday night.
* The mercury has been hovering at nearly 50 degrees Celsius in parts of north and northwest India for the past couple of days. Schools in Gurugram city, adjacent to Delhi, were shut for the next five days as a precautionary measure.
* Japan's weather agency said higher-than-average temperatures are likely to hit nationwide from June through August.
* Ten people died and 39 others were injured in southern Turkey on Sunday when an intercity bus collided with three other vehicles on a main highway, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
* Argentina has detected over 488,000 cases of dengue during the first five months this year, 3.35 times that of last year, the health ministry said Sunday.
