* Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday extended congratulations to Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States. Xi urged the two countries to find the right way to get along in the new era, so as to benefit both countries and the wider world.
* Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump and expressed a wish to take the countries' alliance "to new heights" after Trump claimed victory in the US presidential election.
* South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol spoke with Donald Trump on Thursday and congratulated him on winning the U.S. presidency on the "Make America Great Again" slogan as officials in Seoul worked to prepare for "significant" economic changes.
* Venezuela's government on Wednesday congratulated Donald Trump on his victory in the U.S. presidential contest, with President Nicolas Maduro later calling Trump's re-election "a new start" for bilateral relations.
* French President Emmanuel Macron had a "very good exchange" with Donald Trump, who secured the U.S. presidency four years after being voted out of the White House, on Wednesday evening, said the French presidential palace Elysee.
* German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will make direct contact with Donald Trump in the coming days following his victory in the U.S. presidential election, a government spokesperson said in Berlin on Wednesday.
* Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday about trade, including the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement that they negotiated during Trump's first term, the prime minister's office said.
* Moscow holds no illusions about Donald Trump, who has declared victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, as Washington's ruling elite continues to maintain an anti-Russian agenda, the Russian foreign ministry said Wednesday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump following his election victory.
* Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Wednesday congratulated former U.S. President Donald Trump on his victory in the presidential election, asking him for dialogue and respect for sovereignty.
* Middle East leaders have congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. presidential election and expressed hope for greater efforts toward peace and stability in the region.
* Germany is still capable of functioning after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister, spelling an end to his fractious coalition and paving the way for new elections, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said on Thursday.
* China and the Solomon Islands have agreed to exempt citizens of both countries from travel visa requirements, the Chinese foreign ministry's consular affairs department said in a social media post on Thursday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit Kazakhstan on Nov. 27, the TASS state news agency reported on Thursday, citing Kazakh Foreign Minister Murat Nurtleu.
* Sweden's central bank cut its key interest rate to 2.75% from 3.25% on Thursday, as expected, and said if the economic and inflation outlooks remain the same it may also cut the rate in December and in the first half of 2025.
* Kyrgyzstan calls on Israel to comply with the principles and norms of international humanitarian law, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov said on Wednesday.
* Israeli strikes on Lebanon killed 40 people around the eastern city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on Wednesday, according to the country's health ministry, and at dusk more strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs.
* Israel's Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said on Wednesday the military must ready itself for continued combat in Lebanon, including possible expansion of its ground operations.
* Hezbollah fired about 120 rockets at northern and central Israel throughout Wednesday, causing injuries and damage, according to Israeli sources.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday that 166 migrants had recently been deported from Libya to Nigeria, their home country.
* The non-governmental medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) announced on Wednesday that it has resumed activities in a famine-hit camp for internally displaced persons in El Fasher, the capital of western Sudan's North Darfur State.
* China will steadily promote institutional opening up of the financial service sector and the financial market, and expand connectivity between domestic and overseas financial markets, according to the central bank.
* The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Thursday said it has approved financing of up to almost 1.7 billion USD to help build a climate-resilient 37.5 km expressway along the Philippines' biggest lake to promote regional connectivity.
* The Philippines' gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 5.2 percent in the third quarter of 2024 from a year earlier, down from a 6.4 percent growth in the second quarter, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Thursday.
* Although the Czech Republic's gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.1 percent last year, it is expected to grow by 1.1 percent this year, the Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.
* Brunei welcomed passengers from the inaugural Royal Brunei Airlines direct flight from Chennai, a city located on the east coast of India, with a cultural reception at Brunei International Airport on Wednesday, local media reported.
* This year is "virtually certain" to eclipse 2023 as the world's warmest since records began, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday.
* A dangerously fast wildfire fanned by fierce winds was burning out of control in Southern California (The U.S) on Wednesday, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate.
* Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted eight times on Thursday, spewing a plume of volcanic ash up to 8,000 m (26,250 ft) high, officials said, as the government scrambled to build homes for victims of a big eruption that killed nine.
