* Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Sunday stressed that efforts must be made to implement the policies and arrangements of the central authorities in order to achieve the economic and social development goals for this year.
* Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will attend a meeting in Armenia on Tuesday of the Eurasian Economic Forum, the government said on Sunday, referring to a body within the framework of a grouping of former Soviet states.
* Laos logged a trade deficit of 129 million USD in August, according to the latest figures from the Lao Trade Portal website. Laos' exports during August were worth 541 million USD, while the value of imports was 670 million USD, according to the latest report from the website.
* The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell is convening an extraordinary informal meeting of EU foreign ministers on Monday to discuss the EU's response to the latest escalation in Lebanon, an EU spokesperson said on Monday.
* Russia's nuclear policy amendments were drafted in response to the heightened tensions along its borders, Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
* South Korea and Slovakia on Monday established a strategic partnership to deepen the bilateral cooperation in broad areas, according to the South Korean presidential office.
* The leader of the Hamas movement in Lebanon, Fateh Sherif, was killed along with his wife and two sons in an Israeli raid on his home in the center of the Rashidieh camp in southern Lebanon at dawn on Monday, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.
* Saudi Arabia is closely monitoring the recent escalation of violence in Lebanon with "great concern," according to the kingdom's foreign ministry on early Monday.
* Iran will not leave any of 'the criminal acts' of Israel unanswered, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said in a weekly news conference on Monday, referring to the killing of Hezbollah's chief and Iranian Guard deputy commander in Lebanon.
* A total of 260 Tunisian nationals are scheduled to be repatriated from Lebanon on Tuesday aboard a flight operated by Tunisair, the Tunisian embassy in Lebanon confirmed on Sunday.
* The health and living conditions in the Gaza Strip are "inhumane," the UN agency for Palestine refugees said Sunday.
* More than 100,000 people have crossed into Syria from Lebanon since a conflict between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militia escalated this month, the U.N. refugee agency chief said on Monday.
* Hundreds of people marched to a British airbase in Cyprus on Sunday, protesting its role in the Gaza conflict.
* The president of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, pledged on Monday an urgent relief aid package worth $100 million to Lebanon, the state news agency WAM reported.
* Two boats loaded with migrants reached the Canary Islands late on Sunday as rescuers kept searching for 48 missing from an earlier sea wreck that may be the deadliest such accident for 30 years in the Spanish archipelago.
* Algeria and Niger discussed key steps to advance the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) project during a visit by Niger's Petroleum Minister Sahabi Oumarou to Algiers on Sunday.
* The Australian government has reported a second consecutive budget surplus for the first time in 15 years.
* Chile's government proposes a 2.7% annual increase in its 2025 budget, President Gabriel Boric said on national TV on Sunday, in which he said the government will boost pensions and focus on increasing national security.
* Britain will become the first G7 country to end coal-fired power production on Monday with the closure of its last plant, Uniper’s UN0k.DE Ratcliffe-on-Soar in England’s Midlands. It will end over 140 years of coal power in Britain.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday said it has approved 32.35 million USD of additional financing for a rural water supply and sanitation development program in northern Kyrgyzstan.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday said it has approved a 30-million-USD financing package to improve climate resilience, water resources management and livelihoods of communities in Karnali and Sudurpashchim provinces in Nepal.
* The World Bank has approved a $1.57 billion financing package for Nigeria under a new programme to support its health and education sectors and help provide sustainable power, the bank said on Monday.
* China is expected to see 4.29 billion domestic tourist trips and a tourism expenditure of 4.32 trillion yuan ($615.95 billion) in the first three quarters of the year, state media CCTV reported on Monday.
* SpaceX's Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft autonomously docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. The spacecraft was launched on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the U.S. state of Florida on Saturday, and docked with the ISS at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time (2230 GMT) on Sunday.
* The United States has posted more than 100 deaths related to Hurricane Helene as of Sunday, according to CBS News.
* Nepal has shut schools for three days after landslides and floods triggered by two days of heavy rain across the Himalayan nation killed 151 people, with 56 missing, officials said on Sunday.
* Taiwan (China) issued a land warning on Monday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Krathon, which has strengthened into the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane and is expected to cross the densely populated west coast bringing torrential rain and strong wind.
* A wildfire fanned by strong winds raged uncontrolled on a rugged mountainous area in the central Greek region of Corinth early on Monday, the fire brigade said.
