* Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday called on Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) members to forge ahead with solid steps for a better future as the organization convenes its largest-ever summit in China's port city of Tianjin. Addressing the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO, Xi called on the member states to carry forward the Shanghai Spirit in a world fraught with challenges and changes, and better tap into the organization's potential.
* The Republic of Korea has halted the broadcast of a propaganda ratio program into the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Seoul's defense ministry said Monday. The ministry said in a statement that it suspended the "Voice of Freedom" broadcast as part of efforts to ease inter-Korean military tensions.
* Venezuela is prepared for "any attack" from the United States, Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino Lopez said on Sunday.
* The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has broadened its visa restrictions on Palestinian passport holders, halting approvals for nearly all categories of non-immigrant visitor visas, reported The New York Times on Sunday.
* UN Special Envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg on Sunday urged de-escalation in Yemen as tensions rose between the Houthi group and Israel after Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi of the Houthi-backed government was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Thursday.
* Israel's military chief Eyal Zamir vowed Sunday that Israeli forces would also target Hamas leaders based abroad, following the killing of the group's armed wing spokesperson in Gaza.
* The Israeli army intensified its air and ground attacks on Gaza City on Sunday, aiming to force residents to flee to the central and southern areas of the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources.
* Several employees of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) were arrested by the Houthi group in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday, security and humanitarian sources told Xinhua.
* Armed clashes erupted on Sunday between Syrian authorities-affiliated forces and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Tal Maaz village, east of Syria's Aleppo province, state news agency SANA reported.
* Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Sunday rejected a U.S.-backed proposal to disarm Hezbollah, saying Lebanon would not give up its weapons "under threats or by violating the constitution."
* The World Bank has approved a total of 105 million USD in credit and grant to support an education improvement project in Cambodia, expected to benefit over 1.7 million children, said its press release on Monday.
* Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has issued a press statement regarding the recent demonstrations that have continued in several regions across the country, stressing that the state will uphold public order and security in accordance with the law.
* The Sri Lankan government will import 2,000 pickup trucks in the first quarter of 2026 to improve transportation facilities for officials working for rural areas, a deputy minister said on Sunday.
* An outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 was confirmed in poultry at a premise in Exminster, a village in southwestern England, the British government said Sunday.
* A powerful explosion shook the Skeerat area near the industrial zone of Misrata, about 200 km east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Sunday, Libya's Al-Masar TV reported, with no official word yet on the cause.
