* United Nations Security Council on Friday failed to adopt a draft resolution, which "condemns" the referendums held in four Ukrainian regions under Russian control from Sept. 23 to 27.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree setting out the routine autumn conscription campaign, calling 120,000 citizens up for statutory military service, the state news agency TASS reported on Friday.
* The US House of Representatives on Friday approved a stopgap funding bill to fund the government through mid-December, following a Senate passage on Thursday.
* Ukraine and Russia on Friday blamed each other for a strike on a convoy of civilian cars in the southern Zaporizhzhia region that killed at least 23.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Switzerland to increase its support for Ukraine and block Russian assets, Ukrinform reported on Friday.
* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, Republic of Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Saturday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday strongly condemned the attack that killed at least 19 people and wounded 27 others on an educational center in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, earlier in the day.
* The International Monetary Fund said on Friday its executive board has approved a new food shock borrowing window under its existing emergency financing instruments to help vulnerable countries cope with food shortages and high costs stemming from Russia-Ukraine crisis.
* A spokesman for Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom GAZP.MM on Friday said 800 million cubic metres of natural gas had escaped after explosions hit two pipelines under the North Sea, Tass news agency reported.
* The European Commission on Friday urged the member states of the European Union (EU) to tighten their visa procedures and heighten border checks for Russian citizens.
* The World Bank has said it will provide an additional $530 million in support to Ukraine, bringing the total aid by the bank to $13 billion since Russia launched “special military operation” in Ukraine.
* European Union countries disagreed on Friday about whether and how to cap runaway gas prices, with Germany among those opposing the measure that 15 other states said was needed to tackle Europe's energy crunch.
* Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said on Friday that over 5.5 million tons of agricultural products have been exported from Ukrainian seaports since the beginning of the implementation of the United Nations-brokered "grain initiative."
* Swedish companies have been granted export permits for the sale of military equipment to Türkiye, the country's Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) announced on Friday.
* Burkina Faso Army Captain Ibrahim Traore announced Friday evening that the country's president, Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, was evicted.
* Foreign citizens seeking work in Portugal can stay in the country for six months under a new visa regime announced by the government on Friday. The new rules, which change the rules of entry, stay, exit and removal of foreign nationals, will enter into force on Nov. 1.
* Dozens of Palestinian protesters were injured on Friday in clashes with Israeli soldiers in several West Bank cities and villages, Palestinian medics said.
* China consumed 31.45 million tonnes of refined oil in August, official data showed. The consumption volume rose 3.9 percent year on year, while that of gasoline decreased by 4.5 percent over one year ago, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
* US stocks fell sharply on Friday, as investors were worried about the prospect of further central bank tightening following another hot inflation report.
* Inflation in the eurozone rose by 10 percent in September, a new record high since the launch of the single currency in 1999, according to a flash estimate published on Friday by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU).
* Unemployment in Brazil fell to 8.9 percent in the quarter ending in August, the lowest level in seven years, the state-run Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) said Friday.
* Mexico's financial system benefits from a "solid position" and resiliency, with capital levels and liquidity exceeding regulatory minimums, the country's financial stability council said in a statement on Friday.
* Republic of Korea logged trade deficit for the sixth consecutive month in September owing to faster growth in import than export, caused by higher energy costs, government data showed Saturday.
* The consumer price index in Italy set a new record by rising 8.9 percent in September compared to the same month in 2021, the largest year-on-year increase recorded since the creation of the euro currency.
* Friday's announcement that inflation in the Netherlands climbed to a record high of 17.1 percent in September came as a blow to the country's government.
* Washington on Friday rolled over an agreement to suspend service payments on $132 million of Pakistan's debt, the US embassy in Islamabad said, after devastating floods exacerbated the South Asian nation's economic crisis.
* Uganda's annual headline inflation for the year ending in September increased to 10 percent from 9 percent registered in August, Uganda Bureau of Statistics said Friday.
* France will tighten measures to contain bird flu after a resurgence of the virus that swept through poultry flocks last winter, said the agriculture ministry, adding that the nationwide alert level on bird flu had been raised to 'moderate' from 'low'.
* At least 15 people were killed in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods in the last 24 hours in Pakistan, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said.
* Venezuelan authorities said they had recovered eight bodies on Friday after days of intense rains swelled rivers and unleashed flash floods, leaving at least three others missing.
