* The swearing-in ceremony for the new Sri Lankan cabinet will be held on Monday, the President's Media Division (PMD) announced on Sunday. Cabinet ministers will be sworn in before President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, and deputy ministers will also take their oaths, the PMD said.
* The United States does not seek a new Cold War, does not seek to change China's system and its alliances are not targeted against China, said U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday during his talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the 31st APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru.
* Japanese troops will begin regular deployments in northern Australia as part of military cooperation with Australia and the U.S., Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday.
* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru have agreed to continue developing trilateral cooperation with Washington under the new U.S. administration of President-elect Donald Trump, Yoon's office said.
* Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his relationship with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has had a "very good beginning", elaborating on a phone call between the pair after the Republican's U.S. election win.
* China's Shenzhou-19 crew aboard the orbiting Tiangong space station received a shipment of supplies from Earth on Saturday, after the Tianzhou-8 cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the space station. At 8:26 a.m., astronaut Cai Xuzhe opened the hatch of Tianzhou-8 and entered the cargo ship.
* India has successfully tested a domestically developed long-range hypersonic missile, it said on Sunday, attaining a key milestone in military development that puts it in a small group of nations possessing the advanced technology.
* Dozens of Palestinians were killed or injured in an Israeli strike on a multi-storey residential building in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya on Sunday, medics told Reuters.
* Russian gas producer Gazprom GAZP.MM said it would send 42.4 million cubic metres of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday, the same volume as on Saturday.
* The Afghan caretaker government's national procurement commission has approved 27 projects worth 5 billion afghani (about 73 million USD), according to the office of the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs.
* Belarus' gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 4.2 percent in January-October 2024, the National Statistical Committee of Belarus said on Saturday.
* Super typhoon Man-Yi swept across the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, threatening heavy rain in the capital region Metro Manila, after triggering more than a million evacuations and damaging buildings in several areas.
* Bangladesh is battling its worst outbreak of dengue in years, with more than 400 deaths as rising temperatures and a longer monsoon season drive a surge in infections, leaving hospitals struggling to cope, particularly in urban areas.
* Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a knife attack at a vocational school in Yixing City, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Saturday, said local police authorities.
