* Spain's Energy Minister Teresa Ribera has warned that talks at the COP28 climate summit will be "challenging" as she opened a gathering of energy ministers and climate leaders from around the world in Madrid.
* Turkey will restart operations this week on a crude oil pipeline from Iraq that has been suspended for about six months, Turkey's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday.
* The United Arab Emirates' energy minister Suhail al-Mazrouei told the ADIPEC energy industry event in Abu Dhabi on Monday that OPEC+ never targets a certain oil price, when asked about the risk of higher prices for the health of the global economy.
* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Sunday called on the Swedish government to take practical action against the recurring desecrations of the Quran in the Nordic country.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised Sunday to make a new constitution in the new term of the parliament and invited all political parties and all segments of the society to join the effort.
* The World Bank maintained its economic growth forecast for Cambodia at 5.5 percent in 2023 and raised it to 6.1 percent in 2024, said its updated report released on Monday.
* The World Bank on Monday cut Malaysia's 2023 economic growth to 3.9 percent from its previous projection of 4.3 percent.
* Afghanistan exported 150 tons of dried tomatoes to Europe on Sunday, local official Abdul Ahmad Nazari said on Monday.
* The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) confirmed on Monday that this September has become Australia's driest month on record since observations began in 1900.
* New Zealand has launched a new tool to predict dryness and drought 35 days into the future, which will help farmers and growers be better prepared for challenging weather conditions.
* More than 1 million mothers and children in Afghanistan are no longer receiving nutrition assistance due to a massive funding shortage, World Food Programme (WFP) Afghanistan announced on Monday on social media.
* France started vaccinating ducks against bird flu on Monday to try and stem the virus that killed millions of birds around the world, a move that prompted the United States to impose trade restrictions on French poultry imports.
* The oil pipeline bringing crude from Iraq, which was damaged during the February earthquake, is ready to begin operating, Turkey's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Monday.
* At least 38 people were wounded after a huge fire erupted at a security directorate in the Egyptian Suez Canal city of Ismailia in the early hours of Monday, Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population said in a statement.
