* Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul ordered a halt to the joint peace declaration with Cambodia on Monday, following a landmine explosion that injured two Thai soldiers near the shared border. The decision comes weeks after the two Southeast Asian neighbors signed a joint peace declaration at the ASEAN Summit on Oct. 26.
* Singapore will destroy the ballot papers and other documents used in the general election held in May this year, the Elections Department and the Prime Minister's Office said Monday in a joint release.
* Iraq's early voting for parliamentary elections concluded on Sunday, with a turnout of 82.42 percent, the country's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said.
* The U.S. Senate on Sunday night advanced a bipartisan spending package in a bid to end the longest government shutdown, which has entered its 40th day and caused a series of escalating disruptions.
* The 330 kilovolt Ferosplavna-1 line was reconnected to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) after repair work on Saturday, providing back-up power for the first time in six months, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
* Despite significant progress in scaling up aid since the Gaza ceasefire, delays in lifting impediments mean urgent needs are still unmet, UN humanitarians said Friday.
* Cambodia and the Republic of Korea on Monday vowed to boost cooperation and fight against online scams, said a news release from the Cambodian side.
* The fourth summit between the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the European Union (EU) opened Sunday in Santa Marta, Colombia, where the two sides issued a joint declaration on energy, environment and energy transitions.
* Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani affirmed on Sunday their commitment to continuing efforts to consolidate the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
* Health authorities in the Gaza Strip on Sunday launched a vaccination campaign targeting children under three years old, aiming to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases after two years of disrupted immunization services caused by the war.
*Jordan sent a new convoy of humanitarian aid to Syria on Sunday as part of its ongoing effort to help Syrians cope with worsening humanitarian conditions, officials said.
* Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Saturday that "normalization with Israel is out of the question." All the relevant parties, including Lebanon, Israel, the United States, France, and the UN, should be included in indirect talks, Berri told Lebanese Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper.
* A high-level Group of 20 (G20)-Africa dialogue on debt sustainability, cost of capital, and financing reforms was held on Monday, calling for strengthening partnerships.
* The Ecuadorian national prison administration agency SNAI confirmed Sunday that another 27 prisoners have died of asphyxiation in a prison riot in a southern coastal province, bringing the total death toll to 31.
* The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will allocate about 2 million USD to support the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices in northern Kazakhstan, the country's Ministry of Agriculture reported Monday.
* Russia's foreign trade surplus fell 11.02 percent year-on-year to 101.7 billion USD from January to September 2025, Russia's Federal Customs Service (FCS) said Monday.
* Cambodia exported products worth 24.94 billion USD in the first 10 months of 2025, a year-on-year rise of 15.2 percent, said a report from the General Department of Customs and Excise released on Monday.
* Mongolia exported a total of 65 million tons of coal in the first 10 months of this year, the Mongolian Customs General Administration (MCGA) said Monday.
