* The campaign for Guinea's presidential election, scheduled for Dec. 28, officially kicked off on Friday across the entire country, according to an official source.
* U.S. President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last week, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The two leaders discussed the possibility of an in-person meeting, though no arrangements have been made, according to the report.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Friday that the head of his office Andriy Yermak has submitted a letter of resignation.
* Cambodia and New Zealand on Saturday vowed to further enhance bilateral relations and cooperation for the benefits of the two countries and peoples. The commitment was made during a meeting at the Peace Palace in the capital Phnom Penh between Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet and visiting New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters, said a news release from the prime minister's spokesperson unit.
* U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered closed "in its entirety."
* Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide on Saturday urged the international community to step up efforts to end the war in Gaza and advance a two-state solution, as Norway marked the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
* The United States has paused Afghan visas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, two days after a man from Afghanistan shot and killed one National Guard soldier and critically injured another near the White House.
* Some 3,000 Amazon warehouse employees across Germany staged coordinated walkouts on Black Friday, seeking to increase pressure on the company to agree to a collective wage agreement.
* Türkiye on Friday condemned Israel for its latest strikes on the Syrian village of Beit Jinn near Damascus, which have killed at least 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others.
* Hezbollah signaled on Friday that it will retaliate for the assassination of senior commander Haytham Tabtabai, with the group's leader Naim Qassem declaring that the movement will decide the timing of its response.
* Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants said on Friday that the country has submitted a complaint to the United Nations Security Council, through its permanent mission in New York, protesting what it described as a new and serious Israeli violation of Lebanese sovereignty.
* Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire killed at least 13 people and wounded more than two dozen others in the village of Beit Jinn, in the southwestern countryside of Damascus, early Friday, Syrian authorities, rescue teams, and eyewitnesses said.
* Israeli security forces and settlers have killed 1,030 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since Oct. 7, 2023, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has verified, a UN spokesperson said on Friday.
* The World Bank has released 500 million USD to support the Philippines' recovery and reconstruction efforts in areas heavily affected by Typhoon Kalmaegi, the multilateral lender said on Friday.
* HIV/AIDS killed about 1,000 people in Cambodia in 2024, down 9 percent from 1,100 in a year earlier, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has said.
* Passengers across Australian airports were thrown into chaos on Saturday after plane maker Airbus issued an urgent software update affecting one of the world's most popular aircraft.
* The value of China's international trade in goods and services reached nearly 4.29 trillion yuan (about 604.1 billion USD) in October, official data showed Friday.
* China-Europe freight trains have made a cumulative 120,000 trips and transported goods with a total value exceeding 490 billion USD, the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway) said on Friday.
* Portugal's economy grew 2.4 percent in the third quarter compared with the same period last year, driven largely by domestic demand, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Friday.
* Brazil's unemployment rate declined to 5.4 percent in the quarter ending in October, hitting a record low since 2012, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics said Friday.
* Cholera and mpox outbreaks in various parts of Africa have claimed more than 8,000 lives so far in 2025, as the continent battles mounting public health emergencies, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said.
* The number of fatalities from floods and landslides that struck Indonesia's Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra has risen to 174, with 79 people still missing and 12 others injured, the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said on Friday.
* Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has declared a State of Public Emergency effective on Friday, as the country confronts one of its worst weather-related disasters in recent years.
* Mongolia is expected to experience freezing weather next week, the country's weather agency said Saturday. Starting Saturday night, heavy snow is expected to hit the western and central parts of the country, and overnight temperatures in some areas are expected to reach minus 39-44 degrees Celsius, the weather agency said in a statement.
