* President of Cote d'Ivoire's Constitutional Council Chantal Camara on Tuesday officially confirmed incumbent President Alassane Ouattara as the winner of the presidential election held on Oct. 25 during a ceremony in Abidjan, the country's largest city. According to the Constitutional Council, Ouattara secured 89.77 percent of the votes.
* The Lao government has discussed draft decrees to strengthen governance and socio-economic management, reaffirming its commitment to stability, sustainable growth, and self-reliant development, local news website Lao Phattana News reported on Wednesday.
* Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Tuesday called for unified regional efforts to combat increasingly complex transnational crime, reaffirming Thailand's active role in the fight against scam operations.
* Chinese Finance Minister Lan Fo'an and his Russian counterpart Anton Siluanov co-chaired the 11th China-Russia Financial Ministerial Dialogue in Beijing on Tuesday, China's finance ministry said Wednesday.
* South Africa's Gauteng provincial government announced Tuesday that it is fully prepared to host the upcoming G20 Leaders' Summit, which will take place at the Nasrec Expo Center from Nov. 22 to 23.
* China will continue to suspend the 24-percent additional tariff on imports from the United States for one year while retaining the 10-percent rate, according to an announcement released Wednesday by the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council. China will make the adjustment from 1:01 p.m. on Nov. 10, 2025, the commission said.
* At 00:01 a.m. (0501 GMT) on Wednesday, the U.S. federal government shutdown entered its 36th day, surpassing the previous 35-day record set during the 2018-2019 shutdown, making it the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
* The number of welfare applications filed nationwide in Japan reached 20,703 in August, a 3.1-percent decrease from the same month last year, data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare showed Wednesday.
* Laos has officially launched its fifth population and housing census, running nationwide from Nov. 3 to Dec. 28, with results serving as a baseline for implementing the national socio-economic development plan and tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
* Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in Malaysia is gaining momentum with a year-on-year growth rate of 35 percent as 27 percent of the country's businesses have already adopted AI, according to a report by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
* Poland is set to receive 451.5 million euros (518 million USD) from the European Union (EU) to develop its rail and maritime infrastructure, Polish Infrastructure Minister Dariusz Klimczak said Tuesday.
* Five Finnish projects will receive funding from the European Union (EU)'s Innovation Fund to support the deployment of new clean technology solutions, the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment said on Tuesday.
* Norway and the Czech Republic have signed an agreement launching a new funding period under the European Economic Area (EEA) and Norway Grants, aimed at strengthening cooperation in areas including culture, research and innovation, green transition, health, and education, the Norwegian government said Tuesday.
* Statistics Canada announced on Tuesday that it is postponing the release of its international trade data for September 2025, citing disruptions caused by the partial U.S. federal government shutdown.
* Lebanon and the Netherlands signed a defense cooperation agreement on Tuesday, under which the Netherlands will provide 7.5 million USD in financial assistance to support the Lebanese Army.
* Madagascar is facing a deepening humanitarian crisis, mainly in the regions of Grand Sud and Grand Sud-Est, which have been hit by a series of droughts, cyclones and other shocks this year and last, a UN spokesperson said Tuesday.
* The Sudanese army announced on Tuesday that it will press on with fighting against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following a meeting of the Security and Defense Council to discuss a U.S. proposal for a humanitarian truce.
* Turkish security forces detained 135 suspects in nationwide operations targeting arms and ammunition smuggling, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Wednesday.
* The Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said Tuesday it has handed over the body of an Israeli hostage found in Gaza earlier in the day to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The Israeli army confirmed in a statement that the body has been received by the ICRC and is "on the way to IDF troops" in Gaza.
* The Philippines' year-on-year headline inflation remained at 1.7 percent in October, the same annual growth rate recorded in September, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Wednesday.
* New Zealand's unemployment rate rose slightly to 5.3 percent in the September 2025 quarter, marking the highest rate since the December 2016 quarter, Stats NZ reported Wednesday.
* Mongolia exported 56,000 tons of meat and meat products since the beginning of 2025, official data released by the Mongolian Customs General Administration showed on Tuesday.
* The Iraqi Council of Ministers on Tuesday approved a restricted agricultural plan for the 2025-2026 winter season, limiting cultivation areas due to the ongoing severe drought sweeping the country.
* The Tunisia Investment Authority (TIA) announced on Tuesday that declared investments in Tunisia rose 41.5 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of this year, reaching about 5.97 billion Tunisian dinars (about 2 billion USD).
* At least 23 villagers were missing after flash floods struck the remote Nduga Regency of Indonesia's eastern Highland Papua province on Saturday afternoon, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said Tuesday. Indonesia's Meteorological, Climatology and Geophysics Agency has said the peak rainy season will begin in December and last through January.
* Turkish authorities imposed quarantine measures across 22 villages and neighborhoods in the northwestern province of Bolu on Tuesday following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, local media reported.
* At least 30 people have been killed in Haiti and more than 1.5 million people affected in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa, a UN spokesperson said Tuesday.
* Philippine military troops have retrieved the bodies of six Philippine Air Force personnel on board a Super Huey helicopter that crashed in Agusan del Sur province in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) said.
