* The military of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has conducted a joint firepower attack drill involving its long-range artillery and missile units, the official Korean Central News Agency said Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he expected war with Iran to end this year, possibly after midterm elections due in the United States in November.
* Russian forces continued strikes on railway infrastructure in western Ukraine and logistics centers storing supplies for the Ukrainian forces, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
* Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stressed Sunday that a new consensus has emerged across the country regarding its economic transformation and future direction, ahead of the inaugural Canada Investment Summit.
* Portugal's Public Security Police (PSP) warned Sunday of a growing number of irregular migrants arriving in the Lisbon and Porto metropolitan areas by bus and train from other European cities, signaling an increase in secondary movements within the Schengen area.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Monday that it had launched dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at a major military air base in southwestern Saudi Arabia, marking an escalation in the cross-border confrontation.
* Iraqi Parliament Speaker Haibet al-Halbousi on Sunday reaffirmed Iraq's rejection of using its territory or airspace to threaten the security of Saudi Arabia.
* Iraq announced on Sunday a phased reopening of three major border crossings with neighboring Iran, following administrative and technical reviews to enhance security and streamline border movement.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Syria soon as Damascus and Ankara move to deepen political and economic cooperation, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Sunday.
* Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Fahmy and UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Sudan Pekka Haavisto met in Cairo on Sunday to discuss efforts to de-escalate the conflict in Sudan.
* Yemen's Houthi group freed 210 of its members held by government forces after seizing a prison during its rapid advance along the country's Red Sea coast, a Houthi military official told Xinhua on Sunday.
* New Zealand tourism continued to strengthen in July, with international visitor arrivals exceeding pre-pandemic levels, a government agency said on Monday. The country recorded 256,600 overseas tourist arrivals in July 2026, up 8.5 percent from the same month last year and surpassing July 2019 levels, according to figures released by Stats NZ.
* A major search and rescue operation was underway Sunday night after a migrant boat carrying at least 77 people capsized and sank some 38 nautical miles south of Gavdos, a Greek island south of Crete, Greek national broadcaster ERT reported.
* Two workers were killed and about 50 others injured on Sunday following an accidental ammonia gas leak at a fertilizer factory in southern Iraq's Basra province, Iraq's Civil Defense Directorate said in a statement.
* At least 21 people were killed in a road accident in the Western Cape province of South Africa, local media reported on Monday. The accident occurred at around 11:30 p.m. (2130 GMT) on Sunday night on the N1 highway between Prince Albert and Leeu-Gamka in the province, involving two minibus taxis and a station wagon, according to media reports.
* Australia's first case of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in a pelican has been detected in South Australia (SA), authorities said on Monday.
* The Bangladeshi government has rolled out a three-month campaign aimed at preventing dengue amid the peak season for the mosquito-borne disease. Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman inaugurated the nationwide campaign in Dhaka on Saturday.
