* Indonesian experts believe economic growth, ASEAN centrality and de-dollarization are among the topics to be highlighted at the upcoming 42nd ASEAN Summit.
* Many Thais lined up on Sunday in long queues to vote early in parliamentary elections scheduled for May 14. More than 2 million Thais had registered for early voting out of 52 million eligible voters who are aged 18 and above, according to the country's election commission.
* Slovakia's Prime Minister Eduard Heger said on Sunday he had asked the president to relieve him of his duties, after ministers' resignations weakened his cabinet which is serving in a caretaker capacity before elections in September.
* China, Afghanistan and Pakistan have pledged to further strengthen trilateral cooperation on security and counter-terrorism.
* Fighting could be heard in south Khartoum on Sunday as envoys from Sudan's warring parties were in Saudi Arabia for talks that international mediators hope will bring an end to a three-week old conflict.
* U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday urged all armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to lay down their weapons, saying their presence was causing "humanitarian tragedies" and threatening regional security.
* Over a thousand people rallied in Port Kembla in Australia's state of New South Wales on Saturday to protest plans to establish a local base for nuclear submarines at the heart of the AUKUS agreement.
* Clashes broke out on Saturday between government forces and Houthi militia in Yemen's southwestern governorate of Taiz, resulting in multiple casualties, a government military official said to Xinhua.
* Three consecutive shootings happened on Friday and Saturday in the United States have killed at least 11 people and injured dozens. In a shooting at a Texas outlet mall on Saturday afternoon, at least nine people were killed and seven others injured.
* Pakistan's weekly inflation, measured by the Sensitive Price Index (SPI), posted an increase of 48.35 percent on a year-on-year basis, according to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) on Saturday.
* South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has deployed 880 soldiers to protect the power stations of the country's power utility Eskom, said the Presidency Saturday.
