* Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday formally tasked opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot with forming a government, giving the former military chief a chance to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his right-wing coalition lost its parliamentary majority in October's election.
* China stands ready to strengthen communication and coordination with Cuba and deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said Monday.
* French President Emmanuel Macron will pay a state visit to Cambodia from Nov. 14 to 16, following an invitation from Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation announced on Monday.
* Cambodia has reaffirmed its firm commitment to eradicating all forms of human trafficking through the strict enforcement of legal measures against trafficking and sexual exploitation, the country's National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT) said on Monday.
* China's Ministry of Commerce said Monday that the country has decided to continue to suspend its export control measures on 16 U.S. entities for two months, starting Tuesday.
* Bangladesh's external debt has climbed to 113.44 billion USD at the end of 2025, according to the World Bank. The figures appeared in the Washington-based lender's International Debt Report 2026, released recently at its headquarters, showing that the South Asian country's external liabilities have nearly tripled over the past decade, climbing from 38.77 billion dollars in 2015.
* U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that diplomatic efforts to end the U.S.-Iran conflict have made little progress, calling Iran's demands "unacceptable."
* Iran's southern Qeshm Island came under U.S. strikes Sunday night which targeted a number of locations but caused no damage to the residential and commercial areas as well as vital and service infrastructure on the island, the state-run IRIB news agency reported on Monday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply shocked and saddened by Saturday's mass shooting at the main square of the Polish city of Krakow, said his spokesman on Sunday.
* An Iraqi delegation visited Tehran and held talks with Iranian officials, conveying a message from the United States during an eight-hour mission, Saudi-owned Al Hadath television reported Sunday, citing unnamed sources.
* The navy of Iran's Army announced Sunday that a "violating" oil tanker caught fire after hitting naval mines east of the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the day.
* A large-scale pro-Palestinian protest took place in Amsterdam on Sunday, with participants calling on the Dutch government to take more action over the conflict in Gaza.
* Türkiye and Iraq issued a joint statement on Sunday reaffirming continued cooperation to end the presence of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and establish central government authority in Iraq's Sinjar region of northern Nineveh province.
* Pakistani security forces killed 27 militants during an intelligence-based operation in Mastung district of the country's southwest Balochistan province, security sources said on Sunday.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Sunday that it had launched four military operations involving ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones against an international airport and a financial center in the Saudi capital Riyadh, oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, as well as troop positions inside Yemen, claiming extensive damage and casualties.
* At least 20 migrants have died and 133 others have been rescued in a series of boat incidents south of the Greek island of Crete, Greece's public broadcaster ERT reported on Monday.
* At least 18 people were killed and several others injured in three separate fire incidents overnight in India, local police confirmed on Monday.
* The death toll from a fire at a building in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province, has risen to 14, local authorities said on Monday. The fire broke out at the building in the city's Yingze District at 4:59 p.m. on Sunday.
* Ten people were killed after a car plunged into a lake in Barra Mansa in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, local police said Sunday.
* At least four passengers were killed and 88 injured Sunday when two trains collided in Egypt's Giza governorate, causing several passenger train carriages to derail in the Al-Ayyat district, Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population said.
