Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained on Monday over allegations of staging illegal protests. The arrest came moments after he was released from jail at the end of a previous detention. His new arrest is seen as a result of him violating a protest law - for which he could face 20 days in jail or a fine.

An Indonesian teenager has reportedly been rescued after surviving for 49 days at sea aboard a fishing hut by drinking seawater and cooking fish over wood taken from his vessel. 19-year-old Aldi Novel Adilang was on the hut 125 km off the Indonesian coast in mid-July when heavy winds caused its moorings to snap, casting the vessel adrift. He was rescued thousands of kilometres away near Guam.

Hong Kong on Monday formally banned the Hong Kong National Party, a group promoting independence from China. In July, police recommended a ban on HKNP citing concerns of national security and public safety. HKNP leader Andy Chan said he was waiting for legal counsel before commenting on the decision.

Norwegian Police have reportedly detained a Russian citizen on suspicion of illegal intelligence activities. The man was detained at Oslo airport on Friday night and is expected to be held for two weeks due to the risk of destruction of evidence. While no further details are available, the 51-year-old is believed to have attended a seminar last week on digitization in the Norwegian Parliament.

On Sunday Pope Francis visited the city of Kaunas, Lithuania to honor the victims of a near extermination of a centuries-old Jewish community. The Pope visited several sites to commemorate almost 270,000 Lithuanians that perished in or outside the country due to the Nazis and Soviets. He will continue to travel through the Baltic states in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to remember the lives lost.

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been forced to deny a second allegation of sexual misconduct after a woman said he harassed and exposed himself to her in college at Yale University. Deborah Ramirez had been reluctant to share the story as she had been drinking at the time of the incident, but was convinced to do so by the New Yorker magazine.

48-year-old Robert Spellman from Florida who stole $600 worth of cigarettes from a convenience store has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Spellman robbed 10 cartons of cigarettes from a stock room in the store manager’s office last year. Spellman had 14 felony and 31 misdemeanor convictions prior to the theft, qualifying him as a habitual felony offender, that led to the lengthy sentence

Almost 8,000 people in and around the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, have been urged to evacuate on account of expected severe flooding this week. Officials are keeping a watch on the gauges along the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers and said people should be ready to flee as life-threatening flooding could set in as early as Tuesday.

Actor Bill Cosby is expected to appear at a Pennsylvania courthouse Monday in a two day-sentencing hearing. Cosby has been convicted of drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home in 2004 in what became the first celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. More than 60 women have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct spanning decades.

Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who alleges sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, has agreed to testify in a special hearing on Thursday. Kavanaugh, who denies the claim, will also testify. Ford’s lawyer’s said that she believed it was important the Senators should hear directly from her. However, they are disappointed that the Committee will not subpoena witnesses.

Hawaii Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono on Sunday called for an investigation into allegations of physical and emotional abuse against DNC Deputy Chair Keith Ellison. The son of his former girlfriend claimed there was a video of Ellison dragging her off a bed, but she has not been able to present it. Ellison has denied the allegation, saying it was politically motivated.

Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois told a TV news show Sunday that Christine Blasey Ford’s decision to come forward with her story about Brett Kavanaugh in the face of death threats speaks to her credibility. ’What in the hell did she have to gain from doing this?’ he asked. He said that both sides deserved a fair hearing.

A new report by the the Bank for International Settlements has warned financial markets of the need to be ready to face turbulence as more of the world’s top central banks begin shutting down stimulus programs. The report also warns that that policy makers are unprepared for the next downturn.

Singapore has slapped ride-hailing firms Grab and Uber with fines totalling $9.5 million after concluding that their merger in March had driven up prices and reduced competition. As part of the deal, Uber took a 27.5 percent stake in Grab. Grab holds an 80 percent market share after the merger, which caused fares to rise by 10-15 percent.

A meeting on Sunday of OPEC and its allies ended without any decision to further increase oil output. The committee said in a statement that it was satisfied ’regarding the current oil market outlook, with an overall healthy balance between supply and demand’. This comes in contrast to President Trump’s call Trump for OPEC to help lower prices by producing more.