* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday urged his supporters to reach out to voters who abstained from the Oct. 4 first-round election as he seeks reelection in the presidential runoff scheduled for Oct. 25.
* Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation on Monday extended the suspension of operations at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in order to complete the necessary procedures to verify the safety of the facilities.
* The US State Department on Sunday urged "extreme caution" at all major airports in Saudi Arabia, following attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh the day before. The US Mission strongly recommends all US citizens avoid the airport in the Saudi capital and surrounding areas, according to a security alert.
* The Australian government has warned citizens against traveling to Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport following Houthi attacks across Saudi Arabia.
* A top Iranian security official has said that the US has accepted some of Iran's seven conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while uncertainty remains over Tehran's other terms, according to local media on Sunday.
* European Union (EU) foreign ministers on Monday adopted nearly 1,600 new sanctions listings targeting Russia's military-industrial complex, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said.
* German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that the recent agreement between the US and Russia regarding diesel exports is "out of the question" for Germany and Europe. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin, Merz said Germany is adhering to the sanctions against Russia and pledged continued support for Ukraine.
* Britain does not support US President Donald Trump's deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to purchase millions of tons of diesel from Russia, British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said on Sunday.
* The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) began two joint exercises in Belarus on Sunday: Indestructible Brotherhood-2026 and Barrier-2026.
* Cambodia's trade volume with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the European Union (EU) rose steadily in the first nine months of 2026, driven by stronger supply chain linkages and regional trade pacts, according to a Ministry of Commerce report on Monday. Total trade with the two blocs reached 19.29 billion USD between January and September, up from 16.68 billion dollars during the same period last year.
* Russia's foreign trade surplus rose 16.4 percent year on year to 102.9 billion USD in January-August 2026, RIA Novosti reported Monday, citing data from the Federal Customs Service (FCS).
* India's retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index, climbed to 5.54 percent year-on-year in September, up from 4.83 percent in August, the latest government data showed Monday. The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation put rural inflation at 6.08 percent and urban inflation at 4.88 percent.
* The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthi group intercepted and destroyed a drone and a ballistic missile targeting Saudi Arabia, coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki said Monday.
* Iran's atomic chief said on Sunday the country will not abandon its domestically developed nuclear technology simply because a "bullying" power demands it.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Sunday it had carried out four missile and drone operations against airports and energy facilities across Saudi Arabia over the past 24 hours, as cross-border hostilities continued to intensify.
* Israeli forces carried out a wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, targeting Hamas facilities, the military and Shin Bet domestic security agency said on Sunday.
* Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Sunday voiced his country's readiness to provide any kind of assistance to help initiate dialogue between Saudi Arabia and Yemen and prepare the ground for achieving a political solution to the ongoing conflict.
* The chief minister of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Sohail Afridi, and several provincial cabinet members have been placed in preventive detention following the suspension of the provincial government under emergency rule, a minister said on Monday.
* The 14th ministerial meeting of the African Committee of Ten (C-10) on UN Security Council reform opened in Tripoli, Libya, on Sunday, with participants discussing ways to strengthen Africa's representation in the international body.
* Services of Russia's leading IT company Yandex are gradually returning to normal after a large-scale outage caused by Ukrainian drone attacks on its data centers, the company's press service said Sunday.
* All 73 people, including passengers and crew, aboard MV Awka ferry that had been drifting in Solomon Islands waters since Friday have been safely rescued and brought ashore, the country's Temotu provincial government said on Monday.
