The 46th Ordinary Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government opened Monday in South Africa's coastal city of Durban, with calls for deeper regional integration and stronger cooperation to advance industrialization and economic development.

The Afghan government on Monday launched a polio vaccination campaign targeting children in five provinces to prevent further spread of the disease, local media outlet TOLOnews reported, citing the Ministry of Public Health.

Jordan looks forward to expanding cooperation with China into areas such as green energy, scientific innovation, tourism and civil aviation, said King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Torrential rains have pounded southern South Korea, leaving one person dead and four others injured, officials said Monday.

China on Monday urged those in power in Japan to face up to history, deeply reflect on Japan’s historical guilt and make a complete break with militarism.

The Philippine government has suspended in-person classes in Metro Manila and 12 other provinces as heavy rains from tropical cyclones and the southwest monsoon continue to batter the country, local media reported on Monday.

Fifty-three percent of U.S. voters feel they are worse off financially since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, compared with only 21 percent who said they are better off, according to a recent poll by the Financial Times.

The 22nd round of ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was completed on Monday afternoon, discharging 7,888 tons of such wastewater, said the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO).

People attend celebration of Nag Panchami in Lalitpur, Nepal

Air reinforcements were headed to Belgium Monday to help combat the country's worst wildfire in a century, which made "limited" advance overnight after threatening to spill into neighbouring Germany.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a message of condolence to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto over the strong earthquake that struck Indonesia recently.

A fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is now the country's deadliest ever after killing more than 2,300 people in three months, government figures showed on Monday.

Dozens of residents on Monday jeered the French prime minister as he arrived in a region hit by wildfires earlier this summer, in a show of anger over the government's handling of the worst such crisis in France in decades.