* Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe at the World Health Organization (WHO), called the current response to climate change "dangerously inconsistent and far too slow" in a statement on Monday.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi Monday called on developed countries to fulfill their climate pledges to help developing countries that suffer the most from the climate crisis.
* China has released a plan to advance low-carbon development in the building materials sector, a large producer of industrial carbon emissions, vowing to secure a carbon peak target in the industry by 2030.
* Activities to celebrate the 503rd anniversary of the foundation of the Cuban capital Havana kicked off Monday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin will join next week's G20 leaders summit "if the situation is possible", his Indonesian counterpart and the meeting's host said on Tuesday, adding that Putin could attend virtually instead.
* Concerned voters across the United States are going to the polls to cast their ballots in the 2022 midterm elections on Tuesday amid heightened partisanship and divide.
* Sweden's new prime minister vowed on Tuesday a firmer stance on fighting crime and terrorism during a visit to Turkey where he will seek the approval of President Tayyip Erdogan for his country's bid to join NATO.
* Israel and Jordan on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to move ahead with a water-for-energy deal after an initial examination of the project found it to be feasible.
* Euro zone government bond yields edged up on Tuesday as investor focus was squarely pinned on central banks' fight against inflation, ahead of U.S. consumer price data that could cement expectations for the outlook for Federal Reserve policy.
* Buying Russian oil is to India's advantage and India will continue doing that, Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday after meeting his Russian counterpart.
* Venezuela and Colombia resumed mutual flights on Monday as relations between the two South American neighbors pick up.
* Chief of Staff of Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri on Monday announced his country's readiness to share experiences in the defense sector with Iraq.
* Leaders from nearly 50 countries and organizations on Monday launched the International Drought Resilience Alliance in Sharm El-Sheikh at the ongoing COP27 to help countries to be better prepared for future droughts.
* Authorities in Ethiopia's Amhara region have welcomed the ceasefire agreement between forces in neighbouring Tigray and the federal government, but they made no mention in a statement of territory seized during the two-year-long war.
* An official with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Monday called for continued support for the Lebanese people hit hard by a protracted financial crisis.
* Lebanon's House Speaker Nabih Berri said Monday that Lebanon can no longer bear the consequences of leaving the presidency vacant for long periods, the National News Agency reported.
* The Africa Tech Festival 2022 has kicked off at the International Convention Center in Cape Town, South Africa. This year's festival aims at uniting business and technology to create a better and more inclusive digital world, said the organizers on Monday.
* The finance ministers, representing the 19-country euro area, met in Brussels on Monday to discuss the eurozone's economic development, as well as budgetary measures to mitigate the impact of high energy prices.
* Retail Inflation is hovering around 7.5 percent in India, which is already on the higher side if compared to the standard set by the country's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
* Republic of Korea's domestic supply in the manufacturing industry grew in the third quarter due to higher import of manufacturing products, statistical office data showed Tuesday.
* Manufacturing production in the Philippines sustained growth in September, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.
* Malaysia's population in the third quarter was estimated at 32.9 million, increased by 0.9 percent as compared to 32.6 million a year ago, official data showed Tuesday.
* The European economy is slowing down and a contraction is predicted at least for the winter months due to the energy crisis and high inflation, European Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni warned on Monday.
* Ukraine's solvent banks earned 7.4 billion hryvnias (202 million USD) in the first nine months of this year, compared with 51.4 billion hryvnias (1.4 billion dollars) in the same period of 2021, official figures showed Monday.
* According to the latest report by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), France's consumer price index (CPI) is estimated to rebound to 6.2 percent.
* Nordea, one of the largest banks in the Nordics, has sharply lowered its 2023 forecast for Sweden's gross domestic product (GDP) growth to minus 1.8 percent from minus 0.5 percent it made two months ago in Economic Outlook.
* Malawi has received a consignment of 2.9 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) for a single dose reactive campaign to the Cholera outbreak, which has killed over 200 people since the country reported the first case in March.
* Some 1.2 million people in northeast Venezuela's Sucre state have been left without access to fuel and medical supplies after floods damaged a main highway, the state-owned Venezolana de Television reported Monday.
* A boat carrying about 15 migrants who were trying to cross the Mediterranean to Italy sank off the Tunisian coast on Tuesday, a security official told Reuters.
* Six UN peacekeepers were injured in explosions hitting their convoy and are being treated in Sevare, Mali, said a UN spokeswoman on Monday.
* More than 60 people were sent to a hospital in the northern Mongolian province of Darkhan-Uul due to a suspected gas poisoning, local media reported Tuesday.
