* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that delegations from Ukraine, the United States and Russia discussed possible parameters for ending the Ukraine crisis during their talks in the United Arab Emirates.
* Russia carried out strikes on Ukraine's energy and military infrastructure across multiple regions, the country's defense ministry said Sunday.
* Moscow on Saturday condemned Kiev for attacking an ambulance and killing three medics in the early hours of Saturday. An ambulance with its medical crew en route to a critically ill patient came under attack in the Kherson region on early Saturday.
* Ukraine is seeking to fully integrate itself into the European Union's (EU's) energy market next year, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Friday, citing a senior official.
* Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Saturday called for "buy Canadian" and "build Canadian" in response to a new tariff threat from U.S. President Donald Trump.
* Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Saturday refuted comments by U.S. President Donald Trump suggesting that non-U.S. NATO troops stayed off the front lines in Afghanistan.
* A total of 2,981 Afghan families with 16,928 members returned to their homeland from Iran and Pakistan over the past week, Afghanistan's High Commission for Addressing Returnees Problems announced Sunday.
* Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization Director Ibrahim Kalin met with Hamas Political Bureau member and chief negotiator Khalil al-Hayya in Istanbul on Saturday to discuss implementation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, the semi-official Anadolu Agency reported.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has warned on Saturday that the displacement of over 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip would trigger severe security, economic, and social repercussions for Europe and the Western world.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty on Saturday discussed the latest developments in the Gaza Strip and efforts to support the implementation of the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal in a phone call with Nikolay Mladenov, "the high representative for Gaza."
* Syria on Saturday extended a truce with Kurdish forces by 15 days to support the transfer of Islamic State (IS) detainees from Syria to Iraq, as tensions in the country's northeast continue, the Syrian defense authority said in a statement.
* Iraq's Coordination Framework (CF), an umbrella alliance of Shiite parties and the largest parliamentary bloc, announced Saturday the official nomination of former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for a third term to head the country's next government.
* Syria has resumed extracting oil at fields in the country's northeast that were recently recaptured from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the state news agency SANA reported Saturday.
* The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and peace monitors have called for urgent efforts to avert the collapse of South Sudan's revitalized peace agreement, warning that the country's political and security situation has "continued to deteriorate significantly."
* Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamid Dbeibah announced on Saturday the signing of an oil agreement with two foreign companies, with the investments exceeding 20 billion USD.
* A total of 70,392 new foreign-invested firms were established across China last year, marking an increase of 19.1 percent year on year, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.
* At least 19 airports across the Philippines will receive a combined 7.8 billion pesos (about 132.28 million USD) in capital outlays this year to upgrade aviation facilities and improve the air travel experience, a member of the House of Representatives said Sunday.
* Indonesian police have recovered 16 bodies following a landslide in West Java Province, with seven victims identified, a police spokesperson said on Saturday.
* More than 9,000 flights across the United States set to take off over the weekend have been canceled, as a powerful storm forecast to batter large swaths of the country is expected to trigger prolonged power outages and severely disrupt major transportation routes, U.S. media reported on Saturday.
* A new cold wave is forecast to sweep through central and eastern China from Sunday to Tuesday, bringing snow, rain and a drop in temperatures, the National Meteorological Center said Saturday.
* About 90 percent of Mongolian territory has been covered with snow of up to 45 cm thick, the country's National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring said Sunday.
