* The first round of China-Canada Economic and Financial Strategic Dialogue kicked off Monday as the two countries are seeking to deepen cooperation and jointly face global challenges.
* The two-day Conference for Libya opened in Palermo in the southern Italian city on Monday evening "to bring substance to the stabilization process" in the north African country. Tight security measures are implemented, with hundreds of police deployed in the streets around the major venue.
* India and Morocco signed Monday an agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance to fight crimes and terrorism, the Moroccan official MAP news agency reported.
* Cyber-attacks are the number one risk in East Asia, Europe, and the Pacific and North America, according to the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) Regional Risks for Doing Business report on Monday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed Monday into law a bill allowing members of the Russian parliament to renounce voluntarily a bonus paid on top of an official pension.
* US President Donald Trump on Monday urged Saudi Arabia and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) not to cut their oil production.
* The Israeli army launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Monday evening, killing at least three and injuring dozens others, in response to the massive rocket attacks from the coastal enclave.
* Iran will sue the United States at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for sanctioning its maritime transport services, Mohammad Rastad, managing director of the Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran, said on Monday.
* An alliance of politicians from Northern Ireland's political parties who are opposed to Brexit warned on Monday that a bad Brexit threatened peace in the province and could be "like a bomb going off".
* Three people were shot at a business place in the US state of New Mexico on Monday evening, local police said.
* The Islamic Hamas movement has warned that it would fire more rockets into Israel if the Jewish state expands air strikes on the Gaza Strip.
* Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, will strive to be named the European Capital of Culture, the press service of Kiev city state administration said in a statement on Monday.
* From November 13 to 15, heavy smog will envelop parts of northern China due to poor weather conditions, according to the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) of China.
* US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad could visit Moscow in early December to discuss bringing a durable peace to Afghanistan, a Russian government official said Monday.
