* Peru and China will sign an updated free-trade agreement during President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the Andean nation that would boost commerce by at least 50% between the countries, Peru's foreign minister said on Friday.
* Russia has pledged to provide Cuba with approximately 80,000 tons of diesel fuel worth $60 million to assist the island nation in its energy crisis, Russian state-run RIA news agency reported on Friday, citing Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.
* The 15th Bosphorus Summit wrapped up on Friday, spotlighting global cooperation as essential to addressing pressing international challenges. The two-day summit, themed "Building Bridges Towards the Future: Peace, Technology, and Sustainability," attracted over 1,000 participants from nearly 80 countries.
* Greek Foreign Affairs Minister George Gerapetritis and his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan reiterated the two countries' willingness to resolve chronic differences through dialogue regarding maritime borders and other issues in Athens on Friday.
* South Sudan's Transitional Government of National Unity and holdout opposition groups will resume peace talks in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, Monday, chief mediator announced Friday.
* Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar met Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel and far-right leader Geert Wilders in Amsterdam on Friday afternoon to discuss the assaults on Israeli soccer supporters in the city.
* Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed at least 3,117 people, and wounded 13,888 others since October 2023, Lebanon's health ministry said on Friday.
* At least 43,552 Palestinians have been killed, with 102,765 others injured, since Israel's military offensive on Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, Gaza's health ministry said on Saturday.
* Japan's coincident economic index, which tracks current economic conditions, showed improvement in September as production output recovered in some industries.
* Credit ratings agency Fitch on Friday raised its outlook on Spain to "positive" from "stable", citing improving structural factors that are likely to bolster the country's GDP growth potential and resilience against external shocks.
* Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Friday applauds Moody's decision to raise Croatia's credit rating by two notches, from Baa2 to A3, with a stable outlook.
* Uzbekistan plans to build a regulatory framework to develop the country's carbon market, local media reported Friday, citing Uzbekistan's Deputy Minister of Energy Umid Mamadaminov.
* Over 23% of crude oil production and 10% of natural gas output in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was shut in response to Hurricane Rafael, the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said on Friday.
* Cyprus intends to supply natural gas to Egypt's liquefaction plants for export to international markets, including the European Union (EU), Energy Minister George Papanastasiou said on Friday.
* Remittances sent by overseas Pakistani workers in the first four months of the current fiscal year starting from July 2024 to June 2025 witnessed an increase of 34.09 percent as compared to the corresponding period of last year, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) said on Friday.
* The death toll of a blast that hit a railway station in Quetta city of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Saturday rose to 25, health and police officials said.
* Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted at least three times early on Saturday, spewing an ash column 9 km (5.6 miles) high, as authorities planned to widen the restricted area, officials said.
* Spain has registered the rainiest October on record, culminating in the most deadly floods in decades in the country, the national weather agency AEMET said on Friday.
