* French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday joined European partners in expressing "full solidarity" over the Greenland issue, after U.S. President Donald Trump recently reiterated his call to take over the Danish autonomous territory.
* Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Tuesday called on all sides involved in the Ukraine crisis to demonstrate patience, flexibility and professionalism, and continue pursuing a peace formula.
* China is firmly opposed to the U.S. arbitrary levy of tariffs to hold back Chinese industries groundlessly, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday at a regular press briefing. Spokesperson Lin Jian made the remarks after the U.S. side announced its intended imposition of tariffs on China's semiconductor industry, which will take effect in 2027.
* U.S. officials on Tuesday issued visa restrictions on five individuals from the EU and Britain over the claim that they are involved in content censorship on U.S. social media platforms, according to a statement released by the U.S. State Department.
* Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has sent a letter to heads of state of countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region, denouncing the escalation of U.S. aggressions against Venezuela and their impact on the region, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said Monday.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday that 2025 is "ending well" for Brazil, noting that U.S. tariff hikes on Brazilian goods turned out to be "irrelevant" to the nation's economy.
* The Brazilian government announced on Tuesday the return of 81 Brazilian citizens deported from the United States, bringing the total number of repatriates from the United States in 2025 to more than 3,000 amid U.S. President Donald Trump's tightening immigration policy.
* Venezuela's National Assembly on Tuesday passed a law aimed at guaranteeing and protecting freedom of navigation and trade against piracy, blockades and other illicit international acts, following U.S. seizures of vessels carrying Venezuelan oil in the Caribbean.
* The parliament of Australia's state of New South Wales (NSW) had passed tough new gun and protest laws in response to the fatal mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported on Wednesday.
* The UN Security Council on Tuesday adopted a resolution to renew the authorization of the African Union Support and Stabilization Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM) for another year, until Dec. 31, 2026.
* Slovenia plans to invest 1 billion euros (about 1.18 billion USD) in the construction of public rental housing over the next decade to address a growing housing crisis, the Ministry of Solidarity-Based Future said on Tuesday.
* Israel's decision to establish 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank is a "dangerous step" aimed at tightening control over Palestinian territory, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
* Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi met in Amman on Tuesday with Palestinian Vice President Hussein Al Sheikh, during which they urged consolidating the Gaza ceasefire and addressing the escalation in the West Bank.
* In a phone call on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Egyptian counterpart Badr Abdelatty discussed bilateral relations and important regional and international developments.
* Iraq has lost 4,000-4,500 megawatts of electricity generation after Iran completely suspended gas supplies, the Iraqi Electricity Ministry said Tuesday.
* Libya's Government of National Unity declared three days of national mourning on Tuesday after army chief of staff Mohammed al-Haddad and four senior military officials died in a plane crash near the Turkish capital Ankara.
* U.S. real GDP expanded at an annualized rate of 4.3 percent in the third quarter of 2025, marking the strongest growth since the third quarter of 2023, according to an initial estimate released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
* Cambodia made 9.71 billion USD from the exports of products to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) in the first 11 months of 2025, said a Ministry of Commerce's report on Wednesday.
* Republic of Korea's births grew for the 16th successive month amid higher marriages, statistical ministry data showed Wednesday. The number of newborn babies rose 2.5 percent from a year earlier to 21,958 in October, continuing to go up since July 2024, according to the Ministry of Data and Statistics.
* Japan's agriculture ministry said on Wednesday that genetic testing has confirmed an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a farm in Kyoto Prefecture, marking the ninth bird flu outbreak in the country this season.
