The country’s military council and opposition alliance are expected to announce (Al Jazeera) a new sovereign council to govern Sudan after the two sides signed a power-sharing agreement over the weekend.
 
The transition deal appeared to mark the end of months-long negotiations between the military and the leaders of pro-democracy protests that began late last year and prompted the ouster of longtime President Omar al-Bashir in April. Under the deal (AP), a general will head the eleven-member council for twenty-one months, then hand leadership over to a civilian for eighteen months. The opposition nominated economist Abdalla Hamdok to become the country’s prime minister (VOA). A corruption trial against Bashir is set to begin today (Guardian).

An estimated 1.7 million people took part in a peaceful pro-democracy protest (NYT) in the city center yesterday, the second-largest demonstration since the protest movement began more than two months ago.
 
CFR’s Jerome A. Cohen writes that Beijing’s patience over Hong Kong appears to be waning.
 
Singapore: In a bid to boost support (Bloomberg) among aging workers, the government will raise the retirement age and the age at which companies are required to extend employment contracts. It will also increase pension contribution rates.

The self-proclaimed Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide boming (CNN) at a wedding in the Afghan capital on Saturday that killed sixty-three people and wounded nearly two hundred others.
 
India: The northeastern state of Assam has reportedly expanded its tribunals for migrants and is planning to build more detention camps (NYT) as part of a drive by the federal government to investigate the citizenship of millions of people in India, most of them Muslims. Hundreds of people have been arrested in the campaign.

Hamas’s health ministry said three people were killed and one wounded by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip yesterday. Israel said three rockets were fired (AFP) from Gaza into Israel the day before.
 
Syria: Government forces entered the town of Khan Sheikhun (AFP) in the rebel-held area of the country’s northwest for the first time since they lost control of it in 2014, according to a UK-based monitoring group. More than eighty people were reportedly killed in fighting over the weekend.

The announcement came after more than fifty people were killed in clashes between farmers and cattle herders since August 9. President Idriss Deby said federal forces will be deployed to the country’s eastern provinces (Al Jazeera), where they will disarm civilians.

A leaked government report warned that certain foods will be in short supply (Guardian) and that disruptions to the supply of medicines could last up to six months in the case of a no-deal Brexit. Britain’s exit from the European Union is currently set for October 31.
 
This CFR Backgrounder lays out what Brexit means.
 
Spain: Some eight thousand people have been evacuated due to a wildfire (Reuters) on the island of Gran Canaria that began over the weekend, according to officials.

The number of people seeking asylum in the United States who are waiting in Mexico has risen to nearly fifty-eight thousand (NYT) in recent weeks. The increase comes after the United States introduced a daily cap on entries at the border and a policy to move those already waiting in the country to Mexico.
 
On this episode of the President’s Inbox podcast, CFR’s Paul J. Angelo discusses what’s driving Central American migrants north.
 
Argentina: The finance minister resigned (FT) after President Mauricio Macri lost in last week’s presidential primary, saying that Macri’s administration “needs a significant renewal” of its economic policy. The finance chief of Buenos Aires Province will replace him.

The Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan to cut as much as $4 billion from the budgets of the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, according to a CNN report. It is expected to announce the cuts early this week.