* A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh on Sunday, Azerbaijani media reported. The mission will allow UN access to the disputed region for the first time in about 30 years.
* U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday night signed a 45-day stopgap funding bill, just a few minutes before federal government funding for this fiscal year is set to expire.
* Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the terrorists who carried out a bomb attack in front of the Interior Ministry in Ankara failed in their "latest attempt" to threaten citizens' peace and security.
* An International Monetary Fund will begin holding meetings in Ukraine on Sunday to discuss policy goals and challenges with government officials and others there, the Fund's country representative Vahram Stepanyan said on Sunday.
* British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday there were no immediate plans to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, rowing back from reported comments by his defence minister that he wanted to begin training Ukrainian troops in the country.
* A top Iranian military official said on Saturday that Iran's armed forces are ready for any form of cooperation with Pakistan in the "all-out fight" against terrorism, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
* Israeli authorities were searching for survivors after an inflatable boat washed up on a beach in central Israel on Sunday morning.
* The world body is working with the Armenian government to support the rapidly rising influx of refugees across the border from Azerbaijan, said a UN spokesman on Friday.
* At least 25 members of a local church's choir were kidnapped by armed gunmen en route to a funeral in the Ose local government area of Nigeria's southwestern state of Ondo, local police said Saturday.
* A total of 510,800 certificates of origin were issued by Chinese authorities in August, data from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade showed.
* Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM said it would send 37.9 million cubic metres (mcm) of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday, a lower volume than Saturday's 40.5 mcm.
* Egypt has built 24 smart cities over the past few years and seeks to raise them to 38 by 2050, said Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Saturday.
* South Korea's export fell for the 12th consecutive month due to weak global demand for locally-made products, especially semiconductors and oil products, government data showed Sunday.
* Myanmar earned over 7.3 billion USD in export earnings in nearly six months of the 2023-2024 fiscal year, according to the ministry of commerce on Sunday.
* Italy's grape harvest will decline by around 14 percent this year compared to 2022 after a year of extreme weather, according to the country's main agriculture union Coldiretti.
* Moody's Investors Service has upgraded Cyprus's credit ratings to investment grade for the first time in over 11 years, by raising its status two notches up, from Ba1 to Baa2, according to a statement issued by the agency late on Friday.
* Saudi Arabia announced Saturday its preliminary budget statement for 2024 with an expected 1.9 percent deficit of the GDP.
* September was the deadliest month for dengue fever in Bangladesh, where an average of 13 people died daily from the mosquito-borne disease.
* Over 5,000 people from three districts in Sri Lanka have been affected by floods by Sunday morning, the country's Disaster Management Center (DMC) said.
