* Fianna Fail and Fine Gael, members of Ireland's incumbent governing coalition, have held on to power after the final votes were counted in the country's general election on Monday night. The two parties secured a combined 86 seats in the 174-seat Dail, Ireland's lower house of parliament, falling just two seats short of a majority.
* The French government is all but certain to collapse later this week after far-right and left-wing parties submitted no-confidence motions on Monday against Prime Minister Michel Barnier.
* Romania's Constitutional Court (CCR) on Monday rejected a petition by presidential candidate Cristian Terhes seeking to annul results of the first round of the 2024 presidential election held on Nov.24.
* Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Tuesday he plans to lead the government into the parliamentary election due in September of 2025.
* Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and German Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock co-chaired the seventh round of the China-Germany Strategic Dialogue on Diplomacy and Security in Beijing on Monday.
* Lao Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone will pay an official visit to Cambodia on Dec. 4-5 at the invitation of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet, said a Cambodian foreign ministry's press release on Monday.
* The Council of the European Union (EU) on Monday adopted two new laws to enhance the bloc's resilience to cyber threats and foster stronger cyber solidarity among member states.
* China's Ministry of Commerce on Tuesday announced measures to tighten its control on the export of relevant dual-use items to the United States, as part of efforts to safeguard national security and interests and fulfill non-proliferation and other international obligations.
* The U.S. government on Monday announced additional military assistance to Ukraine worth 725 million USD to meet the urgent need of the country at war with Russia.
* The foreign ministers of Iran, Turkey and Russia are likely to meet in the framework of the Astana process on Dec. 7 and 8 to discuss Syria on the sidelines of the Doha Forum, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Monday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met in Kiev on Monday to discuss military and diplomatic support for Kiev in the coming months, Zelensky's press service said.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities amid the recent escalation of violence in Syria, his spokesman said on Monday.
* Russian gas exports to Europe via Ukraine were up by around 1.2% on Tuesday from Monday and nominations for gas to Austria from Slovakia also edged up, data from Gazprom GAZP.MM and pipeline operator Eustream showed.
* Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrai Oyun-Erdene has urged nations to strengthen collaboration in combating desertification, highlighting its increasingly severe impact on global communities, according to the Mongolian government's press office.
* Israeli military strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, most of them in the town of Beit Lahiya on the northern edge, medics said, as the army issued new evacuation orders in the south of the tiny enclave.
* The Israeli military said on Monday it was currently striking "terror" targets in Lebanon amid mutual accusations of ceasefire violations between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.
* At least 44 civilians, including 12 children and seven women, were killed in northwest Syria from Nov. 26 to Dec. 1, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Monday.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Tuesday said it has approved two projects with 173 million USD in loans and grants to accelerate climate-adaptive water resources management in Cambodia.
* Italy's gross domestic product (GDP) showed no growth between the second and third quarters of the year, according to government data released Monday.
* Thailand's business sentiment climbed in November due to increased confidence in both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors, the central bank said on Monday.
* Turkish inflation was higher than expected at 47.09% annually and 2.24% on a monthly basis in November, official data showed on Tuesday, potentially reducing the prospect of an interest rate cut later this month.
* Malaysia's crude oil and condensate production totaled 41.8 million barrels in the third quarter of 2024, declining by 8.9 percent compared to the previous year, official data showed Tuesday.
* Average temperature across Japan from September to November this year has come in at the highest since records began in 1898, the Japan Meteorological Agency said on Monday.
* Australia has recorded its hottest spring on record, with the national average temperature over two degrees Celsius higher than the long-term average, local media reported on Tuesday.
* A Comoros-flagged cargo ship began sinking near coral reefs off the coast of Quseir city in Egypt's Red Sea Governorate on Monday, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Environment.
