Chinese President Xi Jinping urged leaders to leverage their "mega-scale market", while Russian President Vladimir Putin showed support for Xi's ambition for a new global security and economic order that poses a challenge to the US during a regional summit on Monday.
Around 500 people have been killed and 1,000 more injured in an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the country's state-run broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) reported.
South Korea has suspended a military radio broadcast that transmits to North Korea as part of measures aimed at easing tensions with Pyongyang, Seoul's defence ministry said on Monday.
Indonesian political parties have agreed to cut lawmakers' benefits, President Prabowo Subianto said on Sunday, in a bid to calm anti-government protests that have killed at least five people in the country's worst violence in decades.
Yemen's Houthis raided United Nations offices in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday and detained at least 11 UN personnel, the body said.
The UAE will chair the 164th ordinary session of the Council of the League of Arab States on Monday at the headquarters of the Arab League General Secretariat in Cairo.
The UAE's petrol prices will see a marginal increase in September, with one fils added to the cost of a litre, while diesel will fall 12 fils a litre from Monday.
The UAE, on Sunday, expressed its solidarity with Egypt following a train derailment in Matrouh Governorate, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of a number of people.