* King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday tasked Jaafar Hassan with forming a new government, succeeding Bisher Khasawneh, whose resignation was accepted by the king.
* Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was safe on Sunday after the Secret Service foiled what the FBI called an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing on his course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The suspect left an AK-47-style assault rifle and other items at the scene and fled in a vehicle and was later arrested.
* Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said on Sunday that Angkor Wat has been named the most photogenic UNESCO World Heritage site in Asia by Times Travel.
* Officials from China's Ministry of National Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense held the 18th China-U.S. Defense Policy Coordination Talks in Beijing from Saturday to Sunday, according to the ministry.
* Democratic People’s Republic of Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui has flown to Russia to attend the fourth Eurasian Women's Forum and the BRICS Women's Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia's embassy in the DPRK said on Monday.
* Germany reintroduced temporary controls on its western and northern borders on Monday as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and cross-border crime, the interior ministry said.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested on Sunday that Israel may escalate its actions against the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
* Yemen's Houthis downed a U.S. MQ-9 drone in Dhamar province, the Iran-aligned group's military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said on Monday.
* Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen's Houthi group, said on Sunday that the group's military operations against Israel will continue and intensify. The Houthi leader issued the threat in the wake of a missile attack launched by the group on central Israel earlier in the day.
* At least 40 civilians were killed on Sunday in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in central Sudan, according to a local resistance committee.
* Russia's Gazprom said it would send 42 million cubic metres of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Monday, a volume in line with recent days.
* Emerging East Asia's financial conditions have improved, leading to declining bond yields amid moderating inflation and expected interest rate cuts, said a new report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) released on Monday.
* Israel's 12-month inflation rate rose to 3.6 percent in August, up from 3.2 percent in July, according to data released by the country's Central Bureau of Statistics on Sunday.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said it will help the Bangladeshi interim government's efforts for vital structural reforms in the country.
* Kenya's auditor general has started to examine the country's debt to ascertain the amounts owed to various creditors, Finance Minister John Mbadi told Reuters on Monday.
* Mongolia exported 53.7 million tons of coal in the first eight months of 2024, marking a significant 31.3 percent increase compared to the same period last year, data released by the country's National Statistics Office showed Monday.
* China will launch a nationwide population sample survey in 2025 to help monitor the demographic development of the country, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Some 14 million people from about five million households, or 1 percent of the country's population, will be surveyed from Nov. 1 next year.
* Japan's elderly population has surged to an all-time high by reaching 36.25 million, government data showed on Sunday. The figure marks an increase of 20,000 from the previous year, according to a report by the Ministry of Internal Affairs released a day before the Respect-for-the-Aged Day celebrated nationwide.
* The scheduled launch of an H2A rocket carrying an information-gathering satellite from a space center on a southwestern Japan island was postponed on Monday for a second time, the rocket manufacturer said.
* Mongolia welcomed a total of 576,283 foreign tourists in the first eight months of 2024, marking a 23 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to a statement from the country's Ministry of Culture, Sports, Tourism, and Youth on Monday.
* International tourism in Peru grew by 39.2 percent in the first eight months of 2024, with 2,178,302 foreign arrivals, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) said Sunday.
* As many as 362 climbers from 54 countries and regions, including 88 women, have received permission to scale ten mountains in Nepal for the fall season on Monday.
* Bebinca, the 13th typhoon of this year, made landfall in Shanghai at about 7:30 a.m. Monday, according to the Shanghai central meteorological observatory. The typhoon, with the maximum wind force near its center reaching 42 meters per second, churned ashore at the Lingang area of Pudong district.
* Factories and stores across central Europe shuttered production lines and closed their doors on Monday due to flooding that has killed at least 10 people, forced tens of thousands of evacuations and submerged towns from Poland to Romania.
* More than 47,000 acres of monsoon crops have been submerged in recent floods in central Myanmar's Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory, state-run daily The Mirror reported on Monday.
* A firefighter in northeastern Austria has died in floods as torrential rain and heavy storms swept across the central European country, authorities said on Sunday. The firefighter was pumping water from a flooded building in the state of Lower Austria when the incident occurred.
* More than 10,500 people have been evacuated since the start of the floods in the Czech Republic caused by extreme rainfall, authorities said on Sunday.
* At least 41 bodies were recovered, and 12 others rescued after a wooden boat capsized in Nigeria's northwestern state of Zamfara, local authorities said on Sunday.
* Eight people who were on board a fishing boat that capsized in waters off South Korea's west coast have been rescued, the Yonhap news agency reported on Monday, citing the coast guard.
* Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape, prison authorities said on Sunday.
* A 24-year-old student has died from the Nipah virus in the southern Indian state of Kerala, a local medical official said on Monday, and 151 people who came into contact with the victim are under observation to prevent the spread of the deadly virus.
