* Mauritians went to the polls on Sunday to elect the 70 members of the National Assembly, the country's unicameral parliament. The results of the elections are expected today.
* German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that he is open to the possibility of calling a confidence vote in the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) before Christmas.
* The annual U.N. climate summit kicked off Monday with countries readying for tough talks on finance and trade, following a year of weather disasters that have emboldened developing countries in their demands for climate cash.
* China and Indonesia signed deals worth $10 billion at the Indonesia-China Business Forum in Beijing on Sunday, spanning sectors including food, new energy, technology, and biotechnology, Chinese state media reported.
* China and Laos will hold the "Peace Train-2024" humanitarian medical rescue exercise in Laos later this month, China's Ministry of National Defense announced on Monday.
* The Kremlin on Monday denied reports that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days, and said Putin had no concrete plans yet to speak to Trump.
* U.S. President Joe Biden will go through the top priorities for U.S. domestic and foreign policy with President-elect Donald Trump when the two meet at the White House on Wednesday, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday.
* U.S. President Joe Biden will separately meet with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto in Washington on Tuesday, the White House said in a statement on Sunday.
* Russian Security Council Secretary and former Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu will visit China on Nov. 11-14, where he will meet with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other top officials, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Sunday.
* China will continue to support Pakistan in counter-terrorism operations, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, after two Chinese nationals were wounded in a shooting in the country's commercial hub Karachi last week.
* Sweden has selected Embraer's EMBR3.SA C-390 Millennium as its next military cargo aircraft, while Brazil intends to buy more Gripen fighter jets from Swedish defense company Saab SAABa.ST, the European country's government said.
* The United States this week will decide whether Israel has made progress toward improving the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and how Washington will respond, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Sunday as Israel began to make its case.
* The chief of staff of Saudi Arabia's armed forces, Fayyad al-Ruwaili, visited Tehran on Sunday to meet with his Iranian counterpart and discuss defence ties, state media reported the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff as saying.
* Egypt and Malaysia on Sunday called for achieving peace and security in the Middle East.
* At least 40 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza on Sunday, including two dozen when a residential building in the northern town of Jabalia was hit, Palestinian health officials and a human rights group said.
* Israeli attacks have killed at least 3,186 people and injured 14,078 in Lebanon since October 2023, with 53 fatalities reported on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
* Yemen's Houthis fired missiles targeting a military base in the area of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, the group's military spokesperson said on Monday.
* China's Ministry of Commerce announced on Monday it will impose temporary anti-dumping measures on certain brandy imports originating from the European Union (EU), effective Nov. 15.
* South Korea's jobless claims rebounded in three months due to stronger demand in the construction, wholesale and retail, and manufacturing industries, government data showed Monday.
* Cambodia exported products worth 21.57 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2024, up 16 percent from 18.59 billion dollars over the same period last year, said an official report released on Monday.
* Sri Lanka has earned over 2.5 billion USD from tourism in the first 10 months of 2024, a significant 59 percent increase compared to the corresponding period of 2023, state media reported on Monday.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday said it has approved a financing package of 21.95 million USD to boost Maldives' capacity to combat the effects of climate change and ensure the sustainability of its food systems.
* Egypt's annual urban consumer price inflation edged up to 26.5% in October from 26.4% in September, slightly below expected, data from statistics agency CAPMAS showed on Sunday.
* Aviation authorities temporarily closed Domodedovo, Zhukovsky and Sheremetyevo international airports in the Moscow region on Sunday due to potential risks of drone attacks.
* An earthquake rocked eastern Cuba on Sunday, shaking buildings in Santiago de Cuba, the island's second-largest city, and the surrounding countryside.
* Semeru volcano, located in East Java, Indonesia, erupted again early on Monday at 03:35 a.m. local time, spewing thick gray ash up to 1 kilometer above its summit.
* At least one person was killed and 16 others, including students, injured early Sunday morning in a shooting on the campus of Tuskegee University in the southern U.S. state of Alabama, authorities said.
