* Republic of Korea's military said on Wednesday it has lifted an air raid alarm imposed earlier in the day on the island of Ulleung off the country's east cost.
* The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela held their first bilateral meeting in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on Tuesday, where they discussed topics including trade, human rights and protecting the Amazon rainforest.
* Republic of Korea's Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said on Wednesday police must explain how they responded after receiving multiple emergency calls in the hours before a Halloween party crush killed more than 150 people in Seoul.
* Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said lessons must be learned as he visited the site of a bridge collapse that killed 135 people and met some of the injured in hospital on Tuesday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a phone conversation on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of a deal on the export of grain from the Black Sea ports.
* Delegations from Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations agreed not to plan any movement of vessels on Nov. 2 as part of the Black Sea grain deal, the United Nations secretariat at the joint coordination centre said on Tuesday.
* Exit polls from Israel's parliamentary elections suggested Tuesday that former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc has a good chance of making a comeback after the country's fifth elections since 2019.
* The 31st session of the Arab League (AL) summit kicked off on Tuesday evening in the Algerian capital of Algiers with regional food security and Palestinian issue being on top of agenda.
* Iran and Armenia on Tuesday agreed to extend a 20-year gas-for-electricity swap deal by six years to 2030, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported.
* Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday called for cooperation for the security of the Caucasus region as well as the enhancement of bilateral economic ties, according to the Iranian presidential website.
* African experts will at the forthcoming COP27 meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, push for prioritization of the continent's climate adaptation needs as losses and damages arising from the effects of climate change surge, they said on Tuesday.
* The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday said its troops had made a strategic withdrawal from the eastern military base of Rumangabo, ceding ground in the battle against the M23 rebel group.
* The UN Security Council on Tuesday condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the recent terrorist attack in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
* Representatives from a total of 145 countries, regions and international organizations will participate in the upcoming fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, the organizer said on Tuesday.
* India's gold demand has reached pre-pandemic levels with Asia's third largest economy demand for yellow metal in July-September standing at 191.7 tons, up 14 percent over last year, according to a report by the World Gold Council Tuesday.
* Russia has launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a military satellite into space, Russian news agencies reported on Wednesday citing the defence ministry.
* Republic of Korea's headline inflation marked the first rebound in three months last month on surging utility costs that offset slower increase in oil products price, statistical office data showed Wednesday.
* Argentina's government is set to announce measures, potentially within days, to allow wheat exporters to delay agreed shipments after a major drought hammered the crop, raising concern about domestic supply.
* Rising global interest rates to curb inflation will test New Zealand's financial resilience, Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, the country's central bank, Adrian Orr said on Wednesday.
* The Dutch government said Tuesday that it plans to raise 3.2 billion euros (3.2 billion USD) through a new levy on companies in the fossil fuel sector. The funds will be used to ease the burden of the energy crisis on consumers.
* Iraq exported 104.83 million barrels of crude oil in October, generating 9.25 billion USD in revenue, the country's oil ministry announced Tuesday.
* Statistics Indonesia said on Tuesday that the country recorded nearly 540,000 foreign tourists in September, a huge increase compared to the number of 5,000 registered in the same month last year.
* More than 42,000 tourists entered Sri Lanka in October, making the total tally of tourist arrivals so far this year in the country over 568,000, statistics from the country's tourism authority showed Tuesday.
* Myanmar extended its COVID-19 preventive measures until Nov. 30, the Central Committee on Prevention, Control and Treatment for COVID-19 has said in a statement. The extension is applied to all COVID-19 restrictions that expired on Oct. 31, except the ones that will be eased, the committee said.
* The Dutch government said Tuesday that it will bring back 12 Dutch women suspected of terrorist offenses from northern Syria along with 28 children.
* A blast hit a bus carrying Taliban administration employees in the Afghan capital on Wednesday morning, police said, injuring seven people.
* The United States is facing a more severe flu season this year, coinciding with an increase in COVID-19 transmission and a surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
* Kenyan President William Ruto said on Tuesday his government has allocated 2 billion shillings (16.47 million USD) for food relief to counties affected by the severe drought across the country.
* Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in the two coastal provinces of Guayas and Esmeraldas, which were hit by 12 attacks overnight.
