* Morocco's designated prime minister Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri announced Monday that four political parties had agreed to form the parliamentary majority supporting her incoming government, the official Moroccan news agency MAP reported.
* Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has urged relevant authorities to treat disaster management as a core priority, calling for a significant strengthening of human and material resources to combat rising climate change risks.
* Singapore and Brunei have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation on supply chain resilience and ensure the continued flow of essential goods during crises.
* Cambodia and Azerbaijan signed three agreements on Monday to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation in trade, double taxation prevention and diplomatic education, said a news release from Cambodia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he may meet with Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, during his trip to Asia in November.
* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) confirmed on Tuesday it test-fired a tactical ballistic missile a day earlier. The test-launch was designed to verify what it called "the success in the research for the technical upgrading of an important core element," the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine supports the energy ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, while Moscow said it was moving forward with the diesel agreement with Washington. Zelensky said that Ukraine reserves the right to retaliate if Moscow refuses to observe the ceasefire, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Monday.
* Russian forces continued strikes on logistics centers, port infrastructure and ships involved in delivering military supplies to Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday.
* EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said Monday that Ukraine's future lies in the European Union (EU), as the country prepares to open two new clusters of accession negotiations with the bloc. Kallas made the remarks at a press conference following a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
* The main focus for the Belarusian defense sector is countering unmanned aerial vehicles, Dmitry Pantus, head of the State Authority for Military Industry, told Belarus 1 TV Channel on Sunday.
* Drones have attacked two merchant ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria, and at least one of them has sunk, the country's Government Information Service said on Tuesday. At an extraordinary meeting with the country's security council, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said one ship was attacked around 1:30 a.m. local time (2230 GMT Monday), about 18 nautical miles east of the town of Byala.
* The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) remains valid and in effect, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday, emphasizing that reviewing the trade pact does not mean ending or dismantling it.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Sudanese counterpart Mohi El-Din Salem reaffirmed ties between their countries during a phone call on Monday, following a shooting in Khartoum that killed two Egyptian truck drivers and injured another.
* The Ethiopian government announced on Monday that more than 92,000 former armed combatants have been reintegrated into civilian life as part of ongoing efforts to achieve lasting peace and national stability.
* Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday welcomed the European Union's decision to establish a new support mission in Lebanon to advise and assist the Lebanese army and internal security forces for an initial three-year period, according to a statement by the Lebanese Presidency.
* Multiple advisories issued by the UK Maritime Trade Operations on Monday and Sunday indicated that six vessels came under attack on Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz and adjacent waters of the Gulf of Oman. Within the Strait of Hormuz, advisories 164-26 and 166-26 each reported an outbound tanker struck by an unknown projectile.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Monday it had launched a ballistic missile at King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh and carried out a separate drone strike on an airbase in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
* A preliminary Israeli military investigation found that Monday's deadly explosion near the Lebanese border was likely caused by a Hezbollah cluster bomb left over from past fighting, according to a military statement.
* Total assets of Kyrgyzstan's banking sector reached 1.5048 trillion soms (about 17.2 billion USD) as of Aug. 31, up 24.2 percent year-to-date, the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic said Monday.
* Egypt recorded a balance-of-payments surplus of 2.8 billion USD in the 2025/2026 fiscal year, reversing a deficit of 2.1 billion dollars a year earlier, the Central Bank of Egypt said Monday.
* Australia's winter crop production is forecast to fall 7.9 percent from last season's harvest to 62.9 million tonnes in 2026/27, but remain above the five-year average, agricultural lender Rabobank said on Tuesday.
* The Greek government presented a draft legislation on Monday that would ban children under 15 from accessing social media from Jan. 1, 2027.
* At least 679 people were killed and 1,634 others injured as seasonal flash floods and associated natural disasters swept across Afghanistan over the past year, authorities reported on Tuesday.
* A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck Panama at 6:20 p.m. local time (2320 GMT) on Monday, according to a preliminary report from the Geosciences Institute of the University of Panama. The epicenter was located 32 km southwest of Sona, in the western province of Veraguas, at a depth of 10 km.
* The eruption of Kanlaon Volcano on Saturday in the central Philippines has affected around 24,000 families, the country's Office of Civil Defense (OCD) said Monday.
