* Swedish lawmakers on Monday reappointed Anders Norlen of the conservative Moderates party as speaker of parliament after the country's right-wing block won a majority of seats in a general election on Sept. 11.
* U.N. atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday he is ready to hold talks in Ukraine and Russia this week on setting up a protection zone at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that he often says is needed urgently.
* A recent survey of major Japanese companies showed more than 50 percent believe the economic ties between Japan and China should remain stable, a Japanese media outlet has reported.
* Global economic growth is slowing more than was forecast a few months ago in the wake of Russia-Ukraine conflict, as energy and inflation crises risk snowballing into recessions in major economies, the OECD said on Monday.
* Laos recorded a trade deficit of 166 million USD in August 2022, according to a report from the Lao Trade Portal website on Monday.
* The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) said on Monday that the country's manufacturing output increased 0.5 percent year-on-year in August, compared to a revised 0.8-percent increase in July and a 2.6-percent gain in June.
* The Republic of Korea's currency tumbled versus the USD on Monday amid rising expectations for US Federal Reserve's further rate hikes. The won/dollar exchange rate finished at 1,431.3 won per dollar, up 22.0 won from the previous close.
* Turkey said on Monday that Malaysia and Indonesia had expressed keen interest in buying armed drones from Turkish defence firm Baykar, which has supplied the weapons to several countries after battlefield successes.
* Singapore's Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong will visit Australia while a "green economy agreement" is expected to be signed to streamline climate-friendly finance and technology development.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Monday in Moscow, Belarus state media reported.
* Rashad Al-Alimi, chairman of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, has met with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres over peace efforts to end the civil war in Yemen, national Yemeni TV reported Sunday.
* More than 20 countries, led by Japan, have agreed to boost output of low-emission hydrogen to at least 90 million tonnes a year by 2030 from 1 million tonnes now, the Japanese industry ministry said on Monday.
* Sanctions on Russia are causing damage to Europe and it is a "complete failure," said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto in Budapest on Sunday.
* Ambassadors of European Union member states have been invited to a meeting of the bloc's crisis response working group on Monday to discuss concerns about an escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, an EU official and an EU diplomat said.
* European Union countries should reach a deal on Friday on the bloc's proposals to impose windfall profit levies on energy firms to attempt to tackle soaring energy prices, the Czech Republic's industry minister said on Monday.
* Lebanon expects a written offer from US mediator Amos Hochstein concerning the demarcation of a maritime border with Israel by the end of the week, Lebanon's presidency tweeted on Monday.
* The death toll from Sunday's boat sinking in northern Bangladesh rose to 32 on Monday, with some 30 to 40 people still missing, a senior police official said.
* Debris from a drone strike in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region hit a World Food Programme truck carrying humanitarian aid and injured the driver, a WFP spokesperson said on Monday.
* A Pakistani military helicopter crashed in the southwest area of the country late on Sunday killing all six soldiers on board, including two officers, the military said on Monday.
* At least 13 people have died in a school shooting in the Russian city of Izhevsk, the TASS news agency quoted Russia's Investigative Committee as saying on Monday.
* Ian has strengthened into a hurricane and is expected to produce significant wind and storm surge impacts in western Cuba, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest advisory on Monday.
* French drugmaker Valneva VLS.PA said on Monday it is in talks with a potential partner on producing an updated version of its COVID-19 vaccine that targets new variants of the disease, sending its shares up.
* A cholera outbreak in several regions of Syria has killed 29 people, the Syrian health ministry said on Monday in what the U.N. has called the worst outbreak in the war-torn country for years.
