* The U.S. Senate passed a government funding bill early Saturday that would head to U.S. President Joe Biden's desk for his signature, averting a government shutdown.
* Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday said she was happy with the current interior minister, Matteo Piantedosi, after a court ruling cleared the way for Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini to potentially take that role.
* Iceland's new government, headed by Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir of the Social Democratic Alliance (SDA), officially took office on Saturday.
* Russia's Tatarstan Republic on Saturday declared a state of emergency for government bodies and emergency response units to manage the aftermath of Ukrainian drone attacks.
* Timor-Leste and China agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation in various aspects during meetings held between Timorese leaders and a senior Chinese political advisor.
* A ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip is imminent, with most of its terms already agreed upon, a senior official from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement told Xinhua on Saturday.
* Australia's decision on a 2035 emissions reduction target will be delayed following Donald Trump's U.S. presidential election victory, the government's top climate agency has said.
* U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday called the Panama Canal "a VITAL National Asset for the United States," threatening to retake the canal, citing "exorbitant prices" on U.S. ships.
* The missing An-2 light aircraft, which disappeared in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Thursday, has been found with all three people aboard alive, local authorities said on Sunday.
* Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday underlined the country's commitment to electromobility as a cornerstone of its industrial policy.
* Afghan security forces have discovered a vast quantity of arms and ammunition from the western Farah province and its neighboring Helmand, the state-owned Radio and Television of Afghanistan (RTA) reported on Sunday.
* Turkey will do "whatever it takes" to ensure its security if the new Syrian administration cannot address Ankara's concerns about U.S.-allied Kurdish groups it views as terrorist groups, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani and Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi met in Baghdad on Saturday to discuss ways to enhance bilateral relations.
* Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a hospital in the north.
* At least 45,227 Palestinians have been killed and 107,573 wounded in an Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7,2023, Gaza health ministry said on Saturday.
* The U.S.-British navy coalition launched a new airstrike on a Houthi site in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah on Sunday before dawn, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
* China’s Shanghai Port became the first in the world to see the annual container throughput exceed 50 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) on Sunday. The port has ranked first globally for 14 consecutive years in terms of annual container throughput.
* The World Bank approved three operations totaling 1.16 billion USD to help Bangladesh improve health services, water and sanitation services and achieve greener and climate-resilient development.
* Sri Lanka's Industrial Development Board (IDB) plans to prioritize the electrical, electronic, and mechanical sectors when allocating land for new industries in the future, local media reported on Sunday quoting IDB Chairman Ravi Nissanka.
* Uzbekistan's foreign trade turnover reached 59.4 billion USD in January-November, up 3.6 percent year-on-year, according to the country's statistics agency. Exports reached 24.2 billion dollars, while imports stood at 35.1 billion dollars in the period, increasing 4.4 and 3 percent respectively.
* The death toll from a road accident in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais has risen to 38, with 13 others injured, local authorities reported Saturday.
* At least 10 people, including four children, were killed in a stampede during a relief item distribution at a local church in the Maitama district of Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Saturday.
