* Just days before the end of the campaign for the Nov. 17 legislative elections in Senegal, authorities, political actors and leaders of civil society organizations are stepping up their calls for calm and restraint.
* President-elect Donald Trump returned to Washington on Wednesday for the first time since winning last week's election to meet fellow Republicans in Congress and President Joe Biden at the White House.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang has stressed improving the capacities of comprehensive agricultural production, as well as disaster prevention and reduction, to lay a solid foundation for ensuring food security.
* Japan's government is considering restarting subsidies for electricity and gas prices from January next year, and continuing them until March in response to high fuel costs, public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday.
* Cambodia is ready to deploy more than 16,000 security personnel during the water festival, to be celebrated on Nov. 14-16 in the capital Phnom Penh, the National Police said on Tuesday.
* Russia will take necessary measures to maintain parity in response to the deployment of a U.S. air defense base in Poland, local media reported Wednesday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
* U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken set out Tuesday for a multi-country trip of which the first stop will be Brussels, where he is expected to provide reassurance to European allies on U.S. support for Ukraine ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's second term.
* Moldova has officially amended its constitution to designate European Union (EU) integration as a national strategic objective, marking a significant milestone in its pursuit of EU membership.
* South Africa expects the upcoming G20 summit to strengthen multilateralism and reform the global institutions of governance, South Africa's top diplomat said on Tuesday.*
The 7th Paris Peace Forum convened in Paris on Monday and Tuesday, bringing together global leaders to address urgent international challenges under the theme, "Wanted: A functioning global order."
* The Canadian federal government on Tuesday announced the launch of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (CAISI) to bolster the country's capacity to address AI safety risks.
* Ivory Coast will create a $500 million green finance fund to support sustainable growth initiatives, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in a statement.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kazakhstan regarding the possible early retirement of a coal plant under the bank's energy transition mechanism (ETM) program.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey has no intention to continue and develop ties with Israel.
* A Palestinian official said Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority is preparing to hold consultations with Arab countries to develop a strategy for dealing with the current and upcoming U.S. administrations.
* Egypt condemned "in the strongest terms" recent remarks by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calling for the imposition of Israeli sovereignty and settlement expansion in the West Bank, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
* Israeli airstrikes pounded Beirut's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, as Lebanon waited to hear Washington's latest ceasefire proposals after a U.S. official expressed hope a truce could be reached.
* Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah said on Wednesday that used drones to attack Tel Aviv's Hakirya military base for the first time.
* At least 43,712 Palestinians have been killed and 103,258 injured in Israel's offensive on Gaza since Oct.7 2023, the Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday.
* Sudan's sovereign council said on Wednesday it would extend the use of the Adre border crossing with Chad, seen as essential by aid agencies for the delivery of food and other supplies to areas at risk of famine in the Darfur and Kordofan regions.
* U.S. consumer inflation in October increased 2.6 percent from a year ago, after climbing 2.5 percent in August and 2.4 percent in September, the U.S. Labor Department reported Wednesday.
* South Korea's export volume grew for the 14th successive month in October due to strong demand for locally-made tech and chemical products, central bank data showed Wednesday.
* Croatia's unemployment rate has dropped to 4.6 percent, the lowest since its independence in 1991, according to a report from the Croatian Employment Service released on Tuesday.
* Singapore recorded 1.31 million visitor arrivals in October, up 16.7 percent year-on-year, according to the latest statistics released by the Singapore Tourism Board.
* Indian airlines IndiGo and Air India on Wednesday cancelled their flights to Indonesia's Bali due to ash clouds from a volcanic eruption near the resort island.
* At least 15 inmates were killed and 14 others wounded in clashes between inmates at Ecuador's largest prison, the national prison administration agency SNAI said.
* More than 15 million children in Sudan are out of school due to the country's ongoing conflict, the National Council for Child Welfare said on Tuesday.
* A total of 16 people were killed when a boat traveling on the Tsiribihina River in western Madagascar fell victim to a landslide Tuesday night, the Madagascan Maritime, Port and River Agency said Wednesday.
