* Chinese Premier Li Qiang will attend the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) to be held in Islamabad and pay an official visit to Pakistan from October 14 to 17, at the invitation of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning announced on Sunday.
* President of India Droupadi Murmu on Sunday left for a seven-day visit to three African nations, Algeria, Mauritania and Malawi, confirmed an official at her secretariat in New Delhi.
* Serbia has signed a contract with China's Shandong High-Speed Group (SDHS) to build a new railway station complex in New Belgrade, a central business district of the capital city.
* Britain on Sunday launched a first formal strategy for industry in seven years, as the new Labour government pledged greater stability and certainty for businesses on the eve of a major investment summit in London.
* Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations in New York rejected on Saturday claims linking Tehran to Hamas' October 7 surprise attack on Israel, according to the official news agency IRNA.
* Thirteen people were killed and 36 others wounded on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes on different areas of Lebanon, Lebanese media and sources said.
* Al-Iza Ould Yahia, a notorious terrorist leader, was killed along with several of his associates by the Malian Armed Forces (FAMa) in an operation on Oct. 6 in Ber, northern Mali, the Malian army said on Saturday.
* The Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out a drone strike targeting an Israeli military site in the occupied Golan Heights early Sunday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.
* Russia's Gazprom said it would send 42.3 million cubic metres of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Sunday, the same volume as on Saturday.
* Fifty cultural tourism projects with a total contract value of 51 billion yuan (about 7.2 billion USD) were signed in central China's Hubei Province during an international travel agents conference held on Sunday.
* Canada's economy added a net 46,700 jobs in September and the unemployment rate unexpectedly decreased, data showed on Friday, weakening bets for a 50 basis-point rate cut this month.
* Credit ratings agency Fitch revised France's outlook to "negative" from "stable" on Friday, citing increases in fiscal policy and political risks.
* A total of 2,896 traffic accidents occurred in Myanmar from January to September this year, killing 1,489 people and injuring 4,182 others, according to a report from the Road Transport Administration Department (RTAD) on Sunday.
* The protection of insects is crucial for the survival of migratory birds facing numerous threats, including pollution, climate change, and habitat loss, a senior United Nations official said Saturday during the World Migratory Bird Day.
* Over 100,000 people have been displaced in 12 districts in Sri Lanka due to rain-related disasters from Oct. 7 until Sunday morning, the country's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.
* A 6.2 magnitude earthquake shook Costa Rica's northwest Pacific coast on Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), causing buildings to sway in the area but there were no immediate reports of any damages or injuries.
* At least 20 people were injured in a train collision early Sunday in southern Egypt's Minya province, with no fatalities so far, the Egyptian Health Ministry said.
* Bangladesh on Saturday reported nine more deaths from dengue, the highest daily spike this year, bringing the death toll to 210 since January. The deaths include 47 so far this month after 80 in September.
