* Preliminary results show the ruling United Russia party won 57.83 percent of the votes in the election for the 9th State Duma, the lower house of parliament, Russian Central Election Commission Chairperson Ella Pamfilova told a press conference Monday.
* German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Monday called his party's state election defeat in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a "heavy blow," while ruling out any internal leadership challenge. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Merz admitted that the CDU failed to provide satisfactory answers to public concerns.
* Cambodia on Monday granted dozens of national and foreign journalists access to shuttered online scam compounds, allowing them to take photographs and record video footage of the defunct facilities. The press tour took place just days before Phnom Penh hosts the International Conference on Combating Online Scams, scheduled for Sept. 23-24.
* The Chinese and U.S. delegations convened here on Sunday morning for consultations on economic and trade issues.
* Moscow said Monday that sanctions on Russia's oil and gas exports will not revive relations with the United States or lead to peace with Ukraine. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Russia sanctions bill into law. The legislation targets Russia's energy and defense industries, as well as its "shadow fleet" of tankers.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday evening that he and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to meet in New York. Zelensky said he and Trump discussed the visit to Ukraine by U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, adding that advancing the peace process remained Kiev's top priority.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Washington is in "constant communication" with Yemen's Houthi group, which has agreed not to fight the United States, Fox News reported.
* The U.S. military will not launch "offensive strikes" against Yemen's Houthi group, CNN reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. official. U.S. military support has so far been limited to providing Saudi Arabia with intelligence and targeting data for its operations against the Houthis, according to the report.
* Pakistan said on Monday that it had carried out precision air strikes against militant hideouts along the border with Afghanistan, killing dozens of militants, according to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
* French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that France supports the agenda of rapprochement between Canada and the European Union (EU).
* Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian will leave Tehran for New York on Tuesday to attend the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the official news agency IRNA reported. The announcement was made by Habibollah Abbasi, director general of public relations at the Iranian president's office, in an interview with IRNA published on Monday.
* Qatar is working with the United States and Iran to resume talks, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed Al Ansari said Sunday, noting that U.S. officials have indicated that Washington wants a deal.
* Türkiye would keep its promise under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement in response to the recent military strikes on Saudi Arabia and could provide technical assistance, said Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Saturday.
* An LPG tanker was hit by debris from unknown projectiles while transiting outbound from the Strait of Hormuz, following a similar incident earlier in the day, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Monday.
* Iran will definitely change the "geography" of the war with the United States and Israel if it comes under another "invasion," Hossein Mohebbi, spokesperson of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), has said.
* At least three Palestinians were killed and 20 others injured on Monday by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinians sources.
* Four people were killed and three others injured on Sunday in Saudi airstrikes targeting telecommunications infrastructure in Yemen's northern province of Al-Jawf, Houthi-run media said.
* Malaysian citizens' mean monthly salaries and wages rose 4.1 percent year on year to 3,803 ringgit (about 933 USD) in 2025, according to an official survey released on Monday. The median monthly salaries and wages increased 5.3 percent to 2,940 ringgit, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said in a statement.
* Singapore's labor market remained resilient in the second quarter, but conditions became less favorable for some resident workers as employment growth moderated, retrenchments increased and six-month re-entry rates weakened, the Ministry of Manpower said on Monday. Total employment increased by 11,400 in the second quarter, marking the 19th consecutive quarter of growth, the ministry said in its labor market report.
* The annual industrial output value of China's grain industry is expected to exceed 4.5 trillion yuan (666.8 billion USD) during the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), an official said on Monday.
* Retail fuel prices in Cambodia continued their upward trajectory on Monday, driven by a surge in global oil prices fueled by ongoing tensions in the Middle East, according to the Ministry of Commerce. In its latest announcement, the ministry said that the price of regular gasoline has risen to 5,250 riels (about 1.29 USD) per liter. This marks a 9.3-percent increase from 4,800 riels just 10 days ago.
* Croatia will raise the maximum retail prices of Eurosuper 95 by 1 cent to 1.74 euros (2.00 USD) per liter and Eurodiesel by 6 cents to 1.91 euros (2.20 dollars) from Tuesday, the government said Monday.
* The Sri Lankan Navy has placed 171 disaster relief teams on standby and deployed another 14 teams across the Southern and Western provinces as heavy rains increase flood risks in several parts of the country.
* Bangladesh has logged 87 dengue-related deaths so far in September, representing the highest monthly death toll due to dengue this year.
* The death toll from the capsizing and sinking of the Virgo Transport 8 in the Java Sea rose to 12 after divers recovered two more bodies on Monday morning, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency.
* Pakistan on Monday launched a sub-national polio vaccination campaign in 115 selected districts across the country, targeting children under five, according to the National Emergency Operations Center. The campaign aims to vaccinate 31 million children, with more than 273,000 polio workers deployed across the country, the agency said in a statement.
