* China's economy has grown 3% over the past three quarters and is stabilising on an "upward trend", Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said, vowing to continue to support the economy with policy measures.
* Japan's Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and US President Joe Biden agreed at a meeting on Sunday to strengthen their countries' alliance amid shared concerns over a rise in geopolitical tensions.
* Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Sunday said that he and the Republic of Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol have reaffirmed that their countries will work towards a swift resolution of the wartime labour issue.
* Democrats held onto control of the US Senate, handing a major victory to President Joe Biden and extinguishing hopes of the "red wave" that Republicans had expected leading into the midterm elections.
* Türkiye is trying to open a peace dialogue between Russia and Ukraine although the West, particularly the United States, provokes Moscow, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
* Oleksiy Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), has ruled out freezing the conflict with Russia after Ukrainian forces took control of the southern city of Kherson, the press service of the NSDC reported Saturday.
* Ukraine has started constructing a wall along its border with Belarus, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian president's office, said Friday.
* King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday pledged continued support for the Palestinians, calling the Palestinian cause a top priority of his kingdom.
* Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday tasked former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new government, after the victory of the veteran politician and his alliance of far-right parties in parliamentary elections.
* Egypt's presidency of the ongoing UN climate conference and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) launched in Sharm El-Sheikh on Saturday a food and agriculture initiative to increase climate resources to support the most vulnerable communities.
* The Venezuelan government on Saturday lambasted the decision of the European Union (EU) to renew sanctions against the South American country for another year.
* The Ethiopian government said that it is working to ensure the implementation of the recently signed peace agreement that aimed to end the two-year-long conflict in northern Ethiopia.
* Sudan's leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Sunday issued another stern warning to Islamists and other political factions against any interference in the military, amid talks with civilian parties to form a non-partisan government.
* Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he will set out tax rises and spending cuts this week to show Britain can fix its public finances and restore its economic credibility after financial market chaos sparked by former prime minister Liz Truss.
* Kyrgyzstan's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7 percent by October this year, raising its nominal GDP to about 688 billion soms (over 8.2 billion USD), the country's National Statistical Committee reported.
* Spain has decided to extend the deployment of its Patriot air defense missiles in Türkiye's southern Adana province until June 2023, Turkish semi-official Anadolu Agency reported on Sunday.
* Fighting between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) army and the M23 militia has led to a complex and deteriorating humanitarian situation, a UN spokeswoman said on Friday.
* Six people were killed and 53 others were wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in an incident President Tayyip Erdogan called a bomb attack that "smells like terrorism".
* Six people were dead after two vintage military planes collided midair on Saturday and crashed in flames before a crowd of thousands who came to see them fly at a World War Two commemorative air show in Dallas, officials said on Sunday.
