* Incumbent President David Adeang has been re-elected to Nauru's parliament in the Micronesian nation's general election. Adeang, who has served as president since October 2023, was one of 19 members of parliament elected to represent Nauru's eight multi-member constituencies at the election on Saturday.
* Pakistan and Afghanistan clashed in the border area from late Saturday to early Sunday. Pakistan condemned Afghan provocation in the two countries' border area and demanded that the Afghan government ensure its territory is not used by terrorist elements against Pakistan. Afghanistan said any violation of its soil by anyone will not go unanswered.
* Russia remains ready for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, but European countries and the government in Kiev have shown reluctance to do so, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russian media Sunday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday he had a second phone conversation in two days with U.S. President Donald Trump. Zelensky described the discussion as "very productive," noting that it focused on strengthening Ukraine's defense capabilities, including long-range capabilities.
* Russia has shot down 72 Ukrainian drones and other projectiles over the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Russian air defense systems intercepted nine U.S.-made HIMARS rockets, one Neptune long-range cruise missile, and 72 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the ministry said in a statement.
* Croatia on Sunday began implementing the European Union's (EU) new Entry/Exit System (EES), a digital border management system for non-EU travelers entering or leaving the Schengen Area, Croatian media reported.
* The UN humanitarian scale-up in the Gaza Strip is well underway, with cooking gas entering Gaza for the first time since March, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Sunday.
* Hamas on Monday morning began releasing the first batch of hostages who had been held in Gaza for more than two years, as part of a major prisoner swap under a newly implemented ceasefire, Israel's state-owned Kan TV reported. The prisoners were handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross before being transferred to Israeli forces in Gaza.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the country's military campaign "is not over," on the eve of the planned release of all living Israeli hostages and hundreds of Palestinian detainees under the next stage of the newly implemented Gaza ceasefire with Hamas.
* Indirect talks between Hamas and Israel, conducted through Egyptian, Qatari, and Turkish mediators, have reached their "final stage," with discussions centered on the list of prisoners to be released, Palestinian sources said on Sunday.
* The Israeli army has dismantled humanitarian aid distribution centers in the Gaza Strip operated by a U.S.-backed organization following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian sources said on Sunday.
* Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh met former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Amman on Sunday to discuss postwar arrangements and efforts to consolidate the Gaza ceasefire, al-Sheikh said.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend a Gaza peace summit to be held in Egypt's Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh on Monday, according to his office on Sunday.
* The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on Sunday condemned a second Israeli drone attack this month near its troops in southern Lebanon, calling it a serious violation of the UN Security Council resolution.
* The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said on Sunday that more than 100 fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were killed in battles in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan.
* South Africa on Sunday called for calm and restraint amid ongoing protests and political turmoil in Madagascar. In a statement, the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) expressed deep concern over the situation in the island country.
* The number of people living in poverty in Australia has increased to 3.7 million in 2022-2023, according to a report published on Monday. The report, which was compiled by a national advocate, the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS), and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), found that 14.2 percent of the Australian population, 3.7 million people, was living in poverty in 2022-23.
* China's total goods imports and exports in yuan-denominated terms rose to 33.61 trillion yuan (about 4.73 trillion USD) in the first nine months of 2025, up 4 percent year on year, official data showed Monday.
* The Republic of Korea's exports logged a double-digit fall in the first 10 days of October owing to fewer business days, customs office data showed Monday. Exports ran to 12.97 billion USD in the Oct. 1 to 10 period, down 15.2 percent compared to the same period of last year, according to Korea Customs Service.
* The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced on Sunday the extension of higher customs duties on steel and iron coils, maintaining the rate at 10 percent until Oct. 12, 2026, according to the country's customs authorities.
* Iraqi Minister of Water Resources Aoun Diab said Sunday that Iraq has formally requested Türkiye to increase water releases into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to alleviate the country's critical water shortages.
* At least four people were killed and about 20 were injured in a deadly shooting early Sunday morning at a crowded bar in Beaufort County in the U.S. state of South Carolina, local authorities said Sunday.
* At least 40 people, including seven children, were killed in a bus accident near Louis Trichardt, South Africa's Limpopo Province, on Sunday evening, the country's Road Traffic Management Corporation said Monday.
* The Bangladeshi government has launched a nationwide typhoid vaccination campaign, aiming to immunize about 50 million children between the ages of nine months and 15 years. Bangladesh's Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum on Sunday officially launched the campaign in Dhaka. The month-long drive will provide free injectable typhoid vaccines until Nov. 13.
* A polio vaccination campaign is set to kick off from Monday in 159 districts of Pakistan to protect children from paralytic polio, the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) said on Sunday.
* The Mexican government has stepped up its relief efforts as the death toll rises to 44 following recent record downpours in central and eastern Mexican states, the National Civil Protection Coordination (CNPC) said Sunday.
* The Ministry of Water Resources of China activated a Level-IV flood-control emergency response on Sunday for Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi provinces. The move was made to cope with the autumn flooding in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, as rainfall has caused tributaries of the middle reaches of the river to exceed warning levels, according to the ministry.
