* Preliminary results showed on Sunday that Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has been re-elected for a second term, the country's election authority said. Mohamed Charfi, head of the Independent Authority for Elections, said in a press briefing in the capital Algiers that Tebboune received 5,329,253 votes, or 94.65 percent of the total.
* Tunisian President Kais Saied on Sunday replaced the governors of all 24 provinces in the country, the Tunis Afrique Presse reported Monday morning.
* The China-U.S. Working Group on Enhancing Climate Action in the 2020s held its second meeting from Wednesday to Friday in Beijing to continue discussions on addressing the climate crisis.
* Restrictions on foreign investment in the manufacturing sector will be lifted with the release of the 2024 version of the negative list for foreign investment access, China's top economic planner announced Sunday.
* South Korea convened on Monday an international summit seeking to establish a blueprint for the responsible use of artificial intelligence in the military, though any agreement is not expected to have binding powers to enforce it.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday that his country has been striving to further improve the literacy rate for a more informed and sustainable nation.
* The Qatar Red Crescent and the U.N. agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) signed an agreement on Sunday, with $4.5 million from a Qatari state development fund, to aid more than 4,400 stranded Palestinian workers and patients from Gaza in the West Bank.
* Turkish air strikes in northern Iraq destroyed 21 targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Monday, Turkey's Defence Ministry said, adding many militants had been "neutralised" in the attack.
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will leave Tehran for the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, marking his first foreign trip since taking office in late July, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported Sunday.
* At least 40,972 Palestinians have been killed and 94,761 others injured in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, Gaza's health ministry said on Sunday.
* Israel announced Sunday that it has closed all three of its border crossings with Jordan after three people were reportedly killed in the morning at one of the crossings.
* At least 14 people were killed late on Sunday in multiple Israeli strikes targeting the vicinity of Masyaf, a city in Syria's Hama province, Syria's state news agency reported on Monday.
* The United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Sunday that it had destroyed several Houthi military assets in Yemen over the past 24 hours.
* The China Meteorological Administration on Sunday identified Super Typhoon Yagi as the strongest autumn typhoon to make landfall in China since 1949. Yagi, the 11th typhoon of this year, maintained Super Typhoon status for 64 hours, causing significant damage across many areas of China over the past few days.
* Australia's ability to respond to an outbreak of a deadly strain of avian influenza will be tested on Monday in a major national exercise, the federal government said on Sunday.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday kicked off a special nationwide anti-polio campaign as part of efforts to completely eradicate polio from the South Asian country.
* The Japanese government on Monday revised down its gross domestic product (GDP) to an annualized 2.9 percent growth in the second quarter.
* South Korea's household electricity bill was estimated to rise in double digits last month when an unusually prolonged heatwave plagued the country, Yonhap news agency said Monday, citing Korea Electric Power Corp.(KEPCO).
* Greece plans to impose a 20-euro levy on cruise ship visitors to the islands of Santorini and Mykonos during the peak summer season, in a bid to avert overtourism, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday.
* Sri Lankan workers' remittances were recorded at 577.5 million USD in August, up 15 percent from the same period last year, according to the latest central bank data.
* India's federal health ministry on Sunday said a suspected case of mpox (monkeypox) was identified in the country.
* More than 20 civilians were killed and over 100 others injured in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sinnar city in central Sudan on Sunday, according to local aid groups.
* At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state's disaster management agency said.
* At least 15 people were killed and three others injured when a passenger bus fell off a mountain road in Yemen's southern province of Lahj on Sunday, a security official told Xinhua.
* Floods from torrential rains killed at least 11 people in the provinces of Tata, Tiznit and Errachidia in south Morocco, authorities said in a preliminary death toll on Sunday.
