* Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traore on Friday terminated the duties of Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachimson Kyelem de Tambela and dissolved the government.
* Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Friday signed a new treaty on security guarantees between Russia and Belarus within the framework of the Union State, according to local media.
* Bolivia is committed to regional integration as a full member of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur), President Luis Arce said Friday.
* Latvia's parliament passed the 2025 budget and medium-term budget framework for 2025-2027 during its final reading on Friday night. The bill was approved by 52 votes in favor and 34 against.
* The Netherlands will introduce flexible border controls starting Monday as part of efforts to combat irregular migration and human trafficking, Minister of Asylum and Migration Marjolein Faber said on Friday.
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that he and the foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran had agreed in a meeting in Doha that there had to be an immediate end to "hostilities" in Syria.
* Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on Friday the OPEC+ decision to push back the start of oil output rises by three months until April was based mainly on fundamentals.
* Afghan caretaker government's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has issued more than 65,000 work permits over the past eight months, spokesman for the ministry Samiullah Ebrahimi said.
* Beijing Daxing International Airport has seen the number of foreign travelers passing through immigration there surpassing 1 million this year, marking a new record for the annual number of entries and exits of foreign nationals at this airport.
* The Dutch government announced on Friday a plan to reduce the number of flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, one of the world's busiest international hubs, in an effort to combat noise pollution affecting nearby communities.
* Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 20 Palestinians on Saturday, local health officials said, as Qatar voiced hope of fresh momentum in efforts to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
* At least 44,664 Palestinians have been killed and 105,976 wounded in Israel's military offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7 2023, Gaza's health ministry said on Saturday.
* The Israeli military said on Saturday that it struck a Hezbollah fighter in southern Lebanon who posed a threat to its troops, adding it was operating within ceasefire agreements while remaining deployed to address threats to Israel.
* Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary on Saturday confirmed that the country's cabinet had approved the Lebanese army's deployment "in the area south of the Litani River."
* The Syrian army said Saturday it has redeployed forces in the southern provinces of Daraa and Sweida to set up a stronger defense front after "terrorist" attacks on military checkpoints.
* Tunisia looks forward to scaling up economic integration with Libya, Tunisian Prime Minister Kamel Maddouri was quoted as saying by the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) on Friday.
* Global food prices continued to rise in November, though the rate of increase slowed and prices for grains and cereals -- the largest component in the index -- actually fell.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) Friday said it has approved a 350-million-USD policy-based loan to strengthen and modernize India's logistics sector and achieve increased economic competitiveness.
* Japan's coincident economic index, which tracks current economic conditions, showed continued improvement in October as automobile production and sales recovered, data from the country's Cabinet Office showed on Friday.
* The Philippines' gross international reserves (GIR) settled at 108.5 billion USD as of the end of November from 111.1 billion dollars at the end of October, the Philippine central bank said Friday.
* The average hotel cost in Russia for this year's New Year holidays increased by 19 percent from the same period last year, the latest data from analytics firms showed.
* Tens of thousands of homes were left without power, rail and air travel faced disruptions, and sports events were canceled across the UK on Saturday as storm Darragh struck.
* Japan is experiencing a strong cold snap on Saturday, with heavy snowfall reported in northern and eastern regions, particularly along the Sea of Japan.
