* Democrat Kamala Harris made her closing pitch for the U.S. presidency at a historically Black church and to Arab Americans in battleground Michigan on Sunday, while her Republican rival Donald Trump embraced violent rhetoric at a rally in Pennsylvania. More than 78 million Americans have already done so ahead of Tuesday's Election Day, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab, approaching half the total 160 million votes cast in 2020, in which U.S. voter turnout was the highest in more than a century.
* The Pacific Islands nation of Palau holds a national election for president on Tuesday. Voters will also elect 13 members of the national senate.
* Naval forces of Indonesia and Russia began their first joint military training drills in the Java Sea on Monday, the Indonesian navy said.
* Russia's defence ministry said its armed forces had downed four US-made High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and 42 Ukrainian drones in the last 24 hours on Monday.
* Russia will launch two Iranian satellites into orbit using a Soyuz launcher on Tuesday, Iran's ambassador to Moscow said on Monday, as the two U.S.-sanctioned countries deepen their scientific relationship.
* Japan on Monday launched its new flagship H3 rocket carrying a defense communication satellite from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture.
* The Shenzhou-18 crew consisting of three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth safely in the early morning on Monday, after completing a six-month space station mission.
*Australia has cancelled a multi-billion dollar military satellite project with Lockheed Martin LMT.N, with a Department of Defence statement on Monday saying the military will instead shift its focus to a multi-orbit system.
* Israel has officially notified the United Nations that it was cancelling the agreement that regulated its relations with the main U.N. relief organization for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) since 1967, the country's foreign ministry said on Monday.
* Israeli airstrikes killed at least 31 people in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian medics said, with nearly half of the deaths in northern areas where the army has waged a month-long campaign it says is aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed on Sunday efforts toward ceasefires in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
* Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Sunday that Israel's position on ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon may impact the "type and intensity" of his country's response to the recent Israeli "aggression" on its territory.
* A dialogue among Palestinian factions in Cairo has been "positive", senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told the Palestinian militant group's Al Aqsa TV on Sunday, though he added that he did not want to rush to any conclusions.
* Yemen's Houthis said on Sunday they would maintain their maritime blockade against Israeli vessels in response to "intelligence information" regarding Israeli shipping companies selling their assets to other companies.
* Eight member countries of the OPEC+ oil-producing group anounced on Sunday to further extend their voluntary output cuts by a month, pushing the reductions through the end of December in response to ongoing weak oil prices.
* Remittances from millions of Bangladeshis living and working overseas totaled nearly 9 billion USD in the July-October period, central bank data showed on Sunday.
* Ten people have been confirmed to be killed after Mount Lewotobi erupted late Sunday night in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, according to national disaster management agency BNPB spokesperson Abdul Muhari on Monday.
* More than 22 people died and another two dozen were injured when the bus they were traveling in fell into a deep gorge in India's northern state of Uttarakhand on Monday, a local police officer said over phone.
