On Monday, a fire broke out at Dubai hotel forcing staff and guests to leave the building; the third such a blaze in the United Arab Emirates in a week.
26 people died in Vietnam after devastating floods washed away hundreds of houses and caused damage worth over $41M, the disaster state agency reported on Monday.
According to the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun news outlet, Toshiba's auditor is eager to sign off on the company's annual financial results; a report that raised Toshiba's shares 7% in morning trade.
On Monday, the New-York-based start-up WeWork stated it would provide $500M funding in South Korea and Southeast Asia amid firm's intention to raise demand for its office area in Asia.
Google employee's controversial anti-diversity memo that circulated inside the firm during the previous week prompted the company rebuke and raised tensions over discrimination in the Silicon Valley.
At a meeting with his South Korean counterpart, the Foreign Minister of North Korea said Seoul's proposal to strengthen cooperation with the North "lacked sincerity".
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Washington wanted to cooperate with Russia and saw no point in cutting off ties on the back of their disagreements.
On Monday, the world's largest casino hub Macau gave green light to additional Trump trademarks, giving the US President opportunity to develop the "Trump" brand there.
China urged S.Korea to halt further the US THAAD deployment and make efforts to enhance their relations, China's Foreign Minister stated.
Moscow was ready to normalize dialogue with Washington, Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister stated, if Washington would abandon confrontational approach with Moscow.
The UK would have to continue providing funds for long-term programs to the EU until 2020, even after the country leaves the bloc earlier, EU Budget Commisson revealed.
A Japan's foreign ministry spokesman welcomed tougher UN sanctions on North Korea after its missile tests and stressed more pressure on Pyongyang, rather than dialogue.
The Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel said on Sunday that the city plans to sue the Trump Administration the following day over a threat to withhold certain grant funds.
Carla del Ponte, a member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, is to resign due to lack of political support in the Syrian conflict from the UN Security Council.
On Sunday, the US Vice President Mike Pence rejected as "disgraceful and offensive" a report made by The New York Times that claimed he would run for the US presidency in 2020.
The Social Democrats rejected spending 2% of Germany's GDP on NATO defence, thus criticising the Merkel-led CDU/CSU alliance on obeying the US demands.
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the US was ready to continue its dialogue with Russia on complex matters, even despite weakened bilateral relations.
The revenues of Suez Canal, the fastest European-Asian shipping route, rose to $446.3M in July, thus amounting to $2.94B in the first half of 2017.
The Israeli Communications Minister Ayoub Kara explained on Sunday that the country plans to shut down local operations of Al-Jazeera due to its alleged support of terrorism.
The government of the German state of Lower Saxony dismissed on Sunday allegations that its Premier Stephan Weil had softened his stance towards Volkswagen.
Having been sworn in for his second term as the President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani accused the US of attempting to undermine the nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
China's e-commerce firm Alibaba and France's luxury company Kering announced they would work together to fight against intellectual property rights infringement.
Local police reported on Sunday afternoon that seventy seven Chinese telephone fraud suspects had been repatriated from Fiji.
On Sunday, Myanmar denied allegations of committing crimes against humanity during a clampdown against Rohingya Muslims back in 2016.