* Sweden's Social Democratic Party leader and former Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson said on Monday that she would return her exploratory mandate to the speaker of parliament later in the day, giving up her current attempt to form a new government.
* Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled on Monday that barcodes and QR codes printed on ballots in the February general election did not violate the charter's guarantee of voting secrecy, letting the election result stand.
* The Japanese government has formally decided to convene an extraordinary Diet session from next Monday, local media reported Tuesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Kihara Minoru conveyed the plan to the directors of the steering committees of both houses of the Diet, Japan's parliament, according to Kyodo News.
* Bolivia's armed forces are prepared to act if protests threaten the constitutional order, commander-in-chief Gen. Victor Hugo Balderrama said Monday, as the country remains under a state of exception and faces a new wave of opposition-led mobilizations.
* China and the United States held the eighth round of their economic and trade consultations in New York and Washington, D.C., the United States, from Sept. 20 to 23, reaching positive consensus that contributes to the economic and trade outcomes of the meeting of the two heads of state, China's Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday denied a media report that his administration had offered Iran sanctions relief and access to frozen funds in exchange for nuclear concessions.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has said Iran expects to receive on Tuesday the final U.S. response to its proposed plan for
* Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen summoned the Israeli ambassador to the Netherlands on Monday over Israel's decision to revoke the diplomatic status of Dutch diplomats based in Ramallah, Dutch media reported.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Monday stressed the need to ensure freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab Strait, stressing that their security is the responsibility of the Arab and African countries bordering them, according to an Egyptian Foreign Ministry statement.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed on Monday that he visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) a day earlier at the invitation of President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, saying their talks focused on relations between the two countries.
* More than 100 Israeli settlers rioted overnight in the occupied West Bank village of Jalud, setting fire to Palestinian property and preventing a Palestinian family displaced by earlier settler violence from returning home, Israel's military said on Tuesday.
* At least 44 people from Yemen's government forces and the Houthi group were killed and several others wounded in fierce clashes on Monday in the southern province of Lahj near the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, two military sources from the opposing sides told Xinhua.
* Secretary General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Haitham Al Ghais on Monday highlighted the lasting legacy of the Algiers Accord, a deal reached 10 years ago at an OPEC meeting in Algiers to address severe imbalances in the global oil market.
* European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said Monday that higher energy prices are increasing inflation risks in the euro area, although there are no signs yet that the effects are becoming embedded in the broader economy.
* Ukraine's defense spending is expected to increase from 155 billion USD this year to 175 billion dollars in 2027, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday, citing First Deputy Minister of Finance Roman Yermolychev.
* The Estonian government on Monday approved the draft state budget for 2027 and the state budget strategy for 2027-2030, with next year's total budget volume set at 21.3 billion euros (24.3 billion USD).
* Cambodia's economic growth is forecast to slow to 3 percent in 2026 from 5.3 percent in 2025, driven by surging energy costs, weakening tourism, and declining remittances, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday.
* Australia's central bank on Tuesday raised interest rates to a 15-year high, citing inflation driven by AI and the conflict in the Middle East. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said its Monetary Policy Board voted unanimously to lift the cash rate target from 4.35 percent to 4.60 percent, the highest figure since November 2011.
* Mexico's exports rose 29.3 percent year on year in the first eight months of 2026, largely driven by manufactured goods, according to data released on Monday by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). The value of exports reached 549.4 billion USD in the first eight months, with manufacturing shipments increasing by 30.8 percent, according to Inegi.
* The Panama Canal will increase daily transits through its larger Neopanamax locks to 10 starting Oct. 15, the Panama Canal Authority said Monday. The move will bring the total number of daily transit slots across both sets of locks to 33.
* Three migrants died Monday morning after a taxi-boat sank off northern France, local media reported. According to French broadcaster France Info, 105 people were aboard the taxi-boat off Wissant in the department of Pas-de-Calais when the incident occurred. A provisional toll showed that three people died and four others were slightly injured.
* Indonesian search and rescue teams on Monday recovered five more bodies from a ship that capsized and sank in the Java Sea off South Kalimantan province, bringing the death toll to 71, the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) said.
* Sri Lanka has reported more than 100,000 dengue cases and 77 deaths so far in 2026, according to the tally by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health. A total of 100,127 dengue cases had been recorded as of midnight on Sunday, according to the ministry.
