* Vanuatu's parliament elected Sato Kilman as the Pacific Island nation's new prime minister on Monday. Kilman was elected 27 votes to 23 in a secret ballot on Monday after a court upheld the results of a no-confidence motion in Ishmael Kalsakau.
* The leader of a coup that ousted Gabon's President Ali Bongo will address the nation for the first time as interim president on Monday after a swearing-in ceremony that would appear to solidify the junta's grip on power.
* The Russian Defense Ministry said Sunday that its air defense had destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the Belgorod region, preventing it from carrying out a terrorist attack on Russian facilities.
* Ukrainian forces have breached the first line of Russia's defense near the city of Zaporizhzhia on the country's south, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Sunday, citing a Ukrainian military commander.
* Africa's first climate summit kicked off in the Kenyan capital on Monday with delegates aiming to forge a common position ahead of upcoming global conferences and discussing how to fund the continent's environmental priorities.
* Nigeria is considering applying to become a member of the G20 bloc of major economies after concluding consultations on the risks and benefits, the president's spokesperson said on Sunday.
* Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with visiting Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Sunday to discuss ways to strengthen cooperation and the implementation of bilateral agreements.
* A senior military commander said Iran had used its homegrown Karrar interceptor drone to warn U.S. aircraft off the country's airspace on a number of occasions over the past two years.
* Iraqi security forces deployed in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday to prevent further violence as the death toll in clashes between ethnic groups the previous day rose to four, police and security sources said.
* A delegation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has recently visited Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, with attendance of scholars from the Islamic states, local media reported on Saturday.
* The Libyan state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Sunday said that the country's daily oil production is currently 1.204 million barrels.
* The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said 16 civilians were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the capital Khartoum on Sunday.
* Cambodia's famed Angkor Archeological Park had welcomed nearly half a million foreign tourists in the first eight months of 2023, the state-owned Angkor Enterprise said in a statement on Monday.
* Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 7011.T said on Monday it planned to launch its H-IIA rocket carrying a moon lander on Thursday morning, after unfavourable wind conditions led to a postponement last month.
* The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said its SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splashed down safely off the coast of the southeastern U.S. state of Florida early Monday.
* Taiwan (China) worked to restore power to more than 40,000 households after Typhoon Haikui barrelled into the east and south of the island, as cities and counties in the affected areas closed schools and businesses and domestic airlines cancelled flights.
* Madrid's mayor on Sunday advised all residents to stay at home as the capital braced itself for torrential rain and storms affecting parts of Spain.
* A national campaign in Cuba to step up prevention and control of dengue, a mosquito-borne disease, is underway across the country's 15 provinces and the Isle of Youth special municipality.
* The Bangladeshi government has confirmed another 16 deaths from dengue fever, bringing the total number of fatalities in the country since January to 634, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under the Ministry of Health reported on Sunday.
