* There is a risk of geopolitical fragmentation, as geopolitics turn into geo-economics with negative impacts, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Friday.
* A fuel depot in Russia's Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, caught fire after shelling on Saturday, its governor said, without specifying the origin of the shelling.
* Lorenzo Fontana, a two-time minister from a party likely to be a junior member of the next Italian government coalition, was selected on Friday as speaker of the lower house of Italy's parliament.
* Pakistan's foreign minister said on Saturday he had summoned the US ambassador after President Joe Biden questioned the safety of Pakistan's nuclear programme.
* Türkiye and Qatar signed 11 new agreements during the eighth meeting of their Supreme Strategic Committee in Istanbul on Friday, state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
* India launched a ballistic missile from its strategic strike submarine INS Arihant, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement on Friday.
* Two rival Tunisian opposition groups staged one of the biggest days of protest so far against President Kais Saied on Saturday, denouncing his moves to consolidate political power as public anger grows over fuel and food shortages.
* Britain's new finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday some taxes would go up and tough spending decisions were needed, signalling further reversals from Prime Minister Liz Truss as she battles to keep her job just over a month into her term.
* Germany has reached its target of filling the country's gas storage facilities to 95 percent more than two weeks ahead of schedule, the Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) said on Friday.
* Austria's central bank OeNB on Friday revised upwards its inflation forecasts for 2022 through 2024, citing surging energy prices and wage costs.
* The Monetary Council of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) on Friday announced a series of surprise interventions aimed at halting the Hungarian currency's (forint) free fall against major currencies.
* The annual inflation rate in Finland climbed to 8.1 percent in September, said Statistics Finland on Friday. The month-on-month change in consumer prices in September was 0.8 percent. The inflation rate was 7.6 percent in August.
* Inflation in Croatia hit a record 12.8 percent in September, the highest since 2004 when the country measured inflation for the first time, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said on Friday.
* African leaders from the public and private sectors have pledged to support Africa's youth innovative projects at the ongoing Youth Connekt Africa Summit which kicked off on Thursday in Rwanda's capital Kigali.
* In the wake of recent devastating floods in Pakistan, the response from the international community has been very forthcoming, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
* International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva said she would meet on Saturday with delegations from Egypt and Tunisia and was confident the global lender would be "backing them up."
* NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts aboard the Dragon spacecraft safely splashed down off the coast of the southeastern US state of Florida on Friday, NASA said.
* Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a plan to increase paid parental leave (PPL) entitlements up to six months.
* The construction of an electricity link between Asia and Europe was launched at an event in Cyprus on Friday.
* Germany's Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach called on the country's federal states to reintroduce stricter requirements for wearing face masks as COVID-19 infection figures are rising amid the current autumn wave.
* Israeli forces killed two Palestinian gunmen and another man they said was armed in two separate incidents on Friday, as months of clashes in the occupied West Bank continued.
* The death toll after an explosion in a coal mine in Turkey's northern Bartin province on Friday has reached 41, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
* At least 44 people were injured in Sri Lanka on Saturday after a truck collided with a bus carrying passengers. The accident took place in Sri Lanka's Northern Province along the busy A9 road.
