* Russia launched a new nuclear submarine, the Khabarovsk, in the port city of Severodvinsk, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday. A launching ceremony of the nuclear submarine was held at JSC Production Association Sevmash, a major Russian shipbuilding enterprise, the ministry said in a release.
* Pakistan has reopened the Torkham border crossing in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to facilitate the return of Afghan refugees to their home country, officials said Saturday.
* Afghan security forces have arrested 144 people over attempting to cross the border and sneak into the neighboring Iran illegally, a statement of the national army in the western region said Sunday.
* A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to use a contingency fund to pay recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), one day before the program's funding was set to run out.
* Russia strongly condemns the United States for the excessive use of military force during counter-narcotics missions in the Caribbean, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Saturday.
* Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has said Tehran is not interested in direct negotiations with Washington, but an agreement can be reached through indirect talks.
* A total of 45 undocumented migrants were rescued off the coast of the eastern Libyan city of Tobruk, Libyan newspaper Al-Watan reported Saturday.
* The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) announced Saturday that it is mobilizing an emergency public-health response after an attack on a crucial medical facility in El Fasher, western Sudan.
* Four people were killed and three others injured on Saturday night in an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Roummane, the country's Public Health Emergency Operations Center reported.
* Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said Saturday that two members of its Basij voluntary force were killed in a "terrorist" attack in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
* China's steel industry has seen an optimized product structure during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), with high-end steel products increasingly used in automobiles, home appliances, infrastructure and construction, according to the China Iron and Steel Association.
* Chinese and Saudi business leaders have voiced strong confidence in the prospects of bilateral cooperation, with the digital technology wave accelerating joint ventures across sectors from logistics to sustainable energy.
* Republic of Korean conglomerate DL Group's subsidiary, DL E&C, has been partnering with the Philippines' largest private-sector electric distribution utility company, Meralco, to pursue small modular reactor (SMR) projects in the Philippines, the Philippine Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said Sunday.
* Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities have discovered more than 350 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as "ice," and heroin valued at approximately 5 billion rupees (about 16.66 million USD) aboard a fishing vessel seized by the navy, a senior official told reporters on Sunday.
* The number of tourist trips across Russia reached 68.9 million in the first nine months of 2025, up 5 percent year on year, local media reported Saturday.
* Cambodia's famed Angkor Archaeological Park received a total of 765,518 international visitors in the first 10 months of 2025, a year-on-year decrease of 1.12 percent, said a news release on Saturday. The ancient site earned 35.57 million USD in revenue from ticket sales during the period, slightly down 1.15 percent, said the news release from the state-owned Angkor Enterprise.
* At least 22 people were killed after an explosion triggered a fire at a department store in Hermosillo, capital of the northern Mexican state of Sonora, local media reported Saturday. Rescue teams rushed to the scene to conduct search-and-rescue operations and transport the injured to local hospitals.
