* Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them.
* Voting for local elections began in Mongolia on Friday. The vote kicked off at 8 a.m. local time and will last until 8 p.m. at 2,230 polling stations in the national capital of Ulan Bator and all of 21 provinces, according to the General Election Commission (GEC).
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang said he hopes Japan can meet China halfway and keep bilateral relations on the right track, state media reported, as the two countries try to ease escalating tensions in the region.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang said China is ready to work with the EU to further consolidate the momentum of stable and positive relations between both sides, enhance strategic mutual trust and strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation.
* Cambodia and Thailand have reaffirmed shared resolve to further strengthen the longstanding friendship and strategic partnership for the benefit of both countries and peoples, said a press release from the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday.
* President Vladimir Putin has started his visit to the Central Asian country of Turkmenistan and arrived at the venue of an international conference he is due to speak at later on Friday, video released by the Kremlin showed.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday discussed his proposed "victory plan" with the leaders of Britain, France and Italy, and the incoming head of NATO as he seeks to garner military support to put himself in a position for eventual peace talks.
* U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Thursday that de-escalation was needed in the Middle East, a region on edge for months amid Israel's wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
* Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov has been dismissed from his role, according to a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday.
* Croatia's Ministry of the Interior on Thursday dismissed allegations of migrant mistreatment on the Croatian-Bosnian border, stressing that the claims by the British newspaper the Guardian remain unverified.
* The Latvian parliament passed legislative amendments on Thursday, enabling the recruitment of foreigners in the Baltic country's armed forces.
* Iran and Oman conducted on Thursday a joint rescue and relief drill in the Indian Ocean and the Strait of Hormuz. The exercise, hosted by Oman, involved naval forces from both countries, according to a press release from the Iranian army.
* International finance actors, policymakers, representatives from the private sector, and civil society have gathered in Abidjan for a summit aimed at supporting the fundraising campaign for the International Development Association (IDA), a World Bank institution dedicated to assisting poor countries.
* U.S.’s Florida on Friday was clearing downed trees and power lines and mopping up flooded neighborhoods after Hurricane Milton roared through leaving at least 16 people dead.
* Unidentified gunmen lined up miners at a small private coal mine in southwestern Pakistan and shot them on Friday, police and media said, killing at least 20 and wounding seven in rising violence in the restive region.
* United Nations peacekeepers are determined to remain at their posts in southern Lebanon, the force's spokesperson said on Thursday, despite Israeli attacks in recent days that have wounded U.N. personnel and prompted international alarm.
* Canada, which has been largely supportive of Israel's military offensive in Lebanon, on Thursday said an incident in which Israeli troops fired on U.N peacekeepers was "alarming and unacceptable."
* Strengthening Lebanon's army will be crucial to implementing a key United Nations Security Council resolution that aims to keep peace on the country's border with Israel, the United States and France said on Thursday.
* Italy officially protested with Israel on Thursday for targeting the United Nations Interim Force (UNIFIL) deployed in south Lebanon, which hosts UNIFIL headquarters and two Italian bases.
* Israel continued to pursue offensives in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip on Thursday, pressing forward with its military objectives on the two fronts.
* The UN Acting Emergency Relief Coordinator, Joyce Msuya, has allocated 8 million USD from the Central Emergency Response Fund to support the response to the newly arrived people at Syrian border points, a UN spokesman said Thursday.
* Yemen's Houthi group on Thursday claimed responsibility for attacking an oil tanker in the Red Sea and a ship in the Indian Ocean.
* At least 165 suspected gunmen were killed in different military operations across Nigeria over the past week, an official said Thursday.
* The volume of global merchandise trade is expected to increase by 2.7 percent in 2024, the World Trade Organization (WTO) said in an update of the Global Trade Outlook and Statistics released on Thursday.
* Turkey has imposed anti-dumping duties on some steel imports from China, Russia, India and Japan, according to a decision published in the Official Gazette on Friday, with the highest tariffs on Chinese imports.
* France's government delivered its 2025 budget on Thursday with plans for 60 billion euros ($65.68 billion) worth of spending cuts and tax hikes on the wealthy and big companies to tackle a spiralling fiscal deficit.
* Mexico's inflation outlook has improved while the risk of rising remains, especially with regard to the price of some services, the Bank of Mexico (Banxico) said Thursday.
* Chile's economy is projected to grow by 2.4 percent in 2024, according to a report released by the central bank on Thursday. Economists surveyed by the institution in October also expected the GDP to expand by 2.1 percent in 2025.
* Malaysia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, has reported higher palm oil stocks in September, official data showed Thursday. According to the data revealed by the industry regulator Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Malaysia's palm oil stockpiles rose 6.93 percent from the previous month to 2.01 million tons in September.
* Mongolia exported a total of 59.1 million tons of coal in the first three quarters of this year, official data showed on Friday. The figure represented a 1.3-fold increase compared to the same period last year.
* Indonesia plans to import at least 1.3 million cattle to meet its domestic meat demand and support its free meal program.
* Rwandan Minister of Health Sabin Nsanzimana said on Thursday that more than 200 people in the country have been vaccinated against Marburg virus disease.
