* U.S. President Joe Biden will cast his early-voting ballot in the presidential election on Monday, according to the White House. Many Americans can vote in advance of the Nov. 5 polling day. Biden stood aside earlier this year in the contest that now pits Republican Donald Trump against Democrat Kamala Harris.
* Uruguay's two leading presidential candidates will face off in a run-off on Nov. 24, as neither secured the majority needed in Sunday's general elections, according to the country's electoral authorities.
* Bulgaria's centre-right GERB party won a parliamentary election on Sunday, preliminary results showed, but it will have to seek a coalition partner to form a government. According to preliminary results from the state election commission based on a partial vote count, GERB won 26.08% of the votes.
* Lithuania's opposition Social Democratic Party (LSDP) won parliamentary election runoff on Sunday, according to preliminary results of the Central Electoral Commission. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis announced on Monday that he is stepping down as chairman of the ruling Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) and giving up his seat in the newly elected parliament.
* Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Sunday rejected the results of parliamentary elections as grossly rigged. At a press briefing, she said the president and the opposition would not reconcile with fraudulent elections.
* Claims of Russia's alleged interference in Georgia's recent parliamentary elections are "completely unfounded," Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
* The Lao government is considering increasing the minimum salary for civil servants to cover their spending on basic needs amid economic challenges.
* Indonesia's new leader Prabowo Subianto wants to complete key government and parliamentary buildings in the country's $32 billion new capital city in the next four years, according to a cabinet minister.
* In a speech in Birmingham on Monday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer strived to assure the public that the upcoming Budget would protect public services from severe austerity and safeguard public finances from a damaging course.
* Thailand's exports expanded for a third consecutive month in September, thanks to continued growth in agricultural, agro-industrial and industrial product shipments, official data showed on Monday.
* Cambodia has reported more than 4.5 million air travelers during the January-September period of 2024, up about 22 percent from 3.7 million over the same period in 2023, a minister said here on Sunday evening.
* The South Korean military has been proved to be the "principal" of the drone incursion into the capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Monday.
* The foreign and defence ministers of South Korea and the United States will hold talks in Washington on Thursday, Seoul's foreign ministry said on Monday.
* Top Russian security official Sergei Shoigu has left for the United Arab Emirates where he will hold talks with President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Russian agencies reported on Monday, citing the Security Council.
* Advances have been made in negotiations between Switzerland and the European Union to wrap up a deal updating their relationship, the Swiss president said on Monday, but there is no agreement yet on issues like immigration.
* Norway has agreed with U.S. authorities to buy AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM air defence missiles for more than 4 billion Norwegian crowns ($362.91 million), the Norwegian military said on Monday.
* Poland could raise financing for defence spending through the issue of a dedicated bond, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski told Reuters, adding the European Union won't exclude the country's defence outlay from the bloc's excessive deficit procedure.
* Israeli tanks thrust deeper on Monday into two north Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp, trapping around 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency service said, in what the military said were operations to root out regrouping Hamas militants.
* Israel's airstrikes "hit hard" Iran's defences and missile production, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the country was considering its response.
* Tehran will use all available tools to respond to Israel's attack, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday, after Israel's Saturday strikes on Iran.
* More than 43,020 Palestinians have been killed and 101,110 injured in Israel's military offensive in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, the Gaza health ministry said in a statement on Monday.
* Iraq has submitted a complaint to the United Nations over Israel's use of its airspace to strike Iran on Saturday, an Iraqi government spokesperson said on Monday.
* Authorities in Mexico's Sinaloa state said on Sunday that at least 14 people were killed the day before amid a wave of violence that erupted after drug trafficker Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada's arrest in the United States.
* Around 40 soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Chad's Lake region on Sunday, the central African country's presidency said on Monday.
* Tunisia's coastguard has recovered the bodies of 15 migrants off the coast of the towns of Maloulech, Salakta and Chebba, a judicial official said on Monday.
* The death toll from catastrophic flooding and landslides triggered by tropical storm Trami that slammed into the Philippines last week has risen to 116, with at least 39 people remaining unaccounted for, the Philippines' National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Monday.
* South Sudan's Ministry of Health on Monday declared a cholera outbreak in the congested Renk transit camp in the northern Upper Nile State, which is currently hosting people fleeing conflict from neighboring Sudan.
