1. Portugal asked the EU to send it more fire-fighting planes on Monday as at least 15 blazes raged in central and northern regions.

2. More rivers in Central Europe spilled their banks in flooding that has killed at least 10 people from Poland to Romania and left many towns submerged or hit by gushing, debris-filled waters after days of heavy rainfalls.

3. A Hong Kong man pleaded guilty to sedition for wearing a T-shirt with a protest slogan, becoming the first person convicted under the city's new national security law passed in March.

4. EU said the deadline for Chinese EV makers to make price commitments as a way of averting tariffs had passed.

5. Devastating floods collapsed walls at a jail in Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria early last week, allowing 281 prisoners to escape.

6. Police have detained 104 striking workers protesting low wages at a Samsung plant in southern India.