Somali officials reported that Al Shabaab militants had attacked the African Union troops outside their base in Bulomarer, Somalia.
On Sunday, Afghanistan's election authorities revealed that they had confirmed 20 October as the date of the parliamentary and district council election.
The Governor of the Russian Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, resigned on Sunday in the wake of the deadly shopping centre fire.
Japan's banking industry lobby stated that Japanese banks must continue with consolidation efforts to try to bolster profitability.
Saudi Arabia's GDP shrank 1.18% on an annual basis in the Q4 of 2017, following the prior quarter's decline of 0.43% and marking the fourth straight quarterly contraction.
Office sources reported that Gilberto Occhi, the CEO of Brazil's state-owned bank Caixa Economica Federal, would become the country's next Minister of Health.
On Sunday, the United States and South Korea resumed their joint military exercises after they were postponed because of the Winter Olympics.
Saudi Arabia has signed a non-binding agreement with Boeing to provide training and support to the country's fleet.
Flash figures released on Sunday showed that South Korean crude oil imports fell 16.9% year-over-year in March to 79.7M barrels.
The Namibian President Hage Geingob stated on Saturday that China was not colonising Africa and that improving cooperation between countries was benefiting both of them.
Japan's banks must proceed with consolidation, using everything from informal tie-ups to mergers, to tackle falling profitability, the new chief of the industry's lobby group stated.
China is expected to complete by mid-April the formation of government departments as a component of a restructuring plan, which was ratified by parliament, state media reported citing Vice Premier's comments.
The Supreme Court battle between the US government and Microsoft on whether tech firms could be forced to provide data stored overseas is likely to end.
South Korea's exports climbed less than anticipated in March, adding to uncertainties surrounding the future of global demand due to rising fears of the US-China trade war.
A Russian court has detained Tanzilia Komkova, the Head of State Construction Supervision for the Kemerovo region, in relation to last week's deadly fire at the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping mall.
Alibaba, a Chinese e-commerce conglomerate, and Ford, an American multinational automaker, opened a car vending machine in China.
Sources close to the matter reported that Ziyavudin Magomedov, a Russian business tycoon, was arrested on suspicion of embezzling $35M.
The Syrian Democratic Forces reported that they were not informed of any planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria.
The US President Donald Trump attacked Amazon.com for the second time, accusing the retailer of not paying enough taxes and getting cheap rates form the US Postal Service.
India was considering new duties on imports of the main smartphone component, aiming to encourage domestic manufacturing, government sources revealed.
The Central Bank of Philippines announced an alert to the country's financial institutions after the cyber attack at Malaysia's Central Bank, the Bank's Governor stated.
India's police launched an investigation into the lender at Videocon, as well as the husband of the CEO of ICICI Bank, to evaluate whether there was wrongdoing in practices of lending.
China's services industry expanded at a stronger pace in March, with the non-manufacturing PMI edging up to 54.6 from 54.4, an official survey revealed.
The US retailer Walmart was in negotiations with Humana, the health insurer, about strengthening closer ties, discussing Humana's acquisition as one possibility.