* Indonesia's regional elections, which include provinces, cities, and regencies, are set to be held on Wednesday in 545 regions. The 545 positions up for election include 37 governors, 93 mayors, and 415 regents.
* Namibia's President Nangolo Mbumba on Monday called on citizens to participate peacefully in the 8th Presidential and National Assembly elections set for Nov. 27, 2024.
* A special voting will be held in designated voting centers across Ghana for early voters on Dec. 2, Bossman Asare, deputy commissioner of the Electoral Commission (EC), announced Monday.
* Nicolae Ciuca, the presidential candidate of Romania's National Liberal Party (PNL), announced his resignation as party leader on Monday following a poor performance in the first round of the presidential election.
* The South African government on Monday welcomed the outcomes of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as "a significant step in the right direction."
* China will continue to take concrete actions to ensure stable and unimpeded global industrial and supply chains, Premier Li Qiang said Monday while attending a symposium with representatives of enterprises and organizations participating in the upcoming second China International Supply Chain Expo.
* U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday he would sign an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all products coming in to the United States from Mexico and Canada.
* President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration in January, a White House spokesman said on Monday.
* Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer had a "very friendly and forward-looking" phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in which the two leaders discussed topics including energy security, Nehammer said on social media platform X on Tuesday.
* Russian gas exports via Ukraine to Europe were stable on Tuesday while nominations for supply to Austria from Slovakia jumped by 21%, data from Gazprom and transmission system operator Eustream showed.
* British lawmakers will on Tuesday debate and vote on plans to introduce some of the world's strictest anti-smoking rules, including banning younger people from smoking.
* The United States is pushing as hard as it can to get to a truce in Lebanon but cautioned that an agreement has not yet been achieved, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday.
* Israel looks set to approve a U.S. plan for a ceasefire with the Iran-backed Hezbollah on Tuesday, a senior Israeli official said, clearing the way for an end to the war which has killed thousands of people since it was ignited by the Gaza conflict 14 months ago.
* The European Union's foreign policy chief urged Israel on Tuesday to back a proposed ceasefire deal in Lebanon which he said has all the necessary security guarantees for Israel.
* Israeli Air Force jets on Monday conducted intelligence-based strikes on Syrian "smuggling routes" along the Syria-Lebanon border, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Monday.
* An average of 140 women and girls were killed every day in 2023 by their partner or a family member, according to a UN report published on Monday.
* The death toll of sectarian clashes in Kurram district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has risen to 88, the hospital administration told media.
* China aims to achieve a 5G user penetration rate of more than 85 percent by the end of 2027, as the world's second-largest economy accelerates the large-scale applications of 5G technologies.
* Mexico should promote an efficient energy policy that guarantees the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity, and availability of hydrocarbons, given the rise in nearshoring, a research institute said Monday.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 50 million USD policy-based loan to support Cambodia's efforts to make the business environment more investment-friendly, upgrade businesses toward higher competitiveness, and ease trade barriers.
* The Monthly Economic Review October 2024 released by India's finance ministry on Monday predicted a slowdown in food inflation due to a bumper summer crop harvest.
* Brazil's financial market revised its inflation forecast for the end of 2024 from 4.64 to 4.63 percent, marking the first dip in 18 weeks, the Central Bank of Brazil said Monday in its weekly survey.
* Uzbekistan aims to boost its automotive industry exports to 700 million USD by 2025, the presidential press service said in a statement on Monday.
* Over 50,000 people have been affected by rain-related disasters in 10 administrative districts in Sri Lanka since Nov. 22, according to the country's Disaster Management Center (DMC) on Monday.
* Indonesian rescuers are searching for 7 people still missing four days after torrential rain hit North Sumatra province, causing flash flooding and landslides which killed 15 people, an official said on Tuesday.
