- Turkey. A six-party alliance nominated Monday, main opposition party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, was its coming candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the elections in May, and in months of uncertainty and bickering that had frustrated their supporters.
- South Korea took a step toward improving ties with its traditional rival Japan on Monday, announcing a plan to compensate Koreans who performed forced labor during Tokyo's colonial rule that doesn't require Japanese companies to contribute to the reparations.
- Twitter experienced a pave of glitches for over an hour Monday as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in, and images were not loading for others.
