* The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided on Monday to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson.
* Indonesia's president-elect Prabowo Subianto met with several candidates for his new cabinet on Monday, as the former military general prepares to take office on Sunday.
* Lithuanian Social Democratic Party won the first round of the parliamentary elections, securing 19.36 percent of votes and 18 out of 70 seats, preliminary data from the Central Electoral Commission showed on Monday morning.
* A governmental crisis erupted in Iceland after Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson on Sunday announced the government's intention to resign and called for new elections.
* China will increase support for innovative small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and unicorn companies to foster new quality productive forces and help enterprises expand markets and unleash vitality, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said Monday.
* Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet on Monday reiterated the Southeast Asian country's commitment to a multilateral trading system and its support for free trade.
* British Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Monday unveiled a private investment plan worth 63 billion pounds (82.30 billion USD), which will create nearly 38,000 jobs and double last year's amount of investment in Britain.
* Fresh nuclear drills announced by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are escalating tensions amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
* The top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday convened a consultative meeting on national defense and security in the latest move by the country to address the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.
* South Korea's military fired shots south of the military demarcation line after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea exploded parts of roads connected to South Korea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.
* The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) exploded parts of roads connected to South Korea after Pyongyang's announcement on Oct. 9 to cut off all inter-Korean roads and railways, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said Tuesday.
* India on Monday asked six Canadian diplomats in New Delhi to leave the country by Saturday hours after it decided to withdraw its high commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and other "targeted diplomats and officials" from Canada. Canada has also announced expulsion of six Indian diplomats, including the high commissioner.
* The attendance of the United Kingdom (UK) at a European Union (EU) council meeting marks a "reset" in their relationship, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday in Luxembourg.
* Hungary and Russia's Gazprom GAZP.MM are negotiating a deal for additional gas supplies next year to Budapest, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Russia's RIA news agency in remarks published on Tuesday.
* Sri Lanka is to place on record its request for membership of BRICS at the outreach BRICS summit to be held in Kazan, Russia, Foreign Affairs Minister Vijitha Herath said on Monday.
* EU environment ministers agreed on the bloc's negotiating position ahead of the COP 29 United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan next month, a council statement said.
* The Norwegian government announced on Monday a major financial commitment to the World Health Organization (WHO), pledging 1 billion Norwegian kroner (93 million USD) over the next four years (2025-2028).
* Italy has begun transferring migrants to two controversial new facilities in Albania, local media reported on Monday.
* UN peacekeepers will stay in all their positions in Lebanon in spite of the calls made by Israeli authorities to vacate the positions that are in the vicinity of the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel, the UN peacekeeping chief said on Monday.
* None of the 27 European Union (EU) member states are in favour of withdrawing the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said on Monday.
* Concerning the regional tensions in the Middle East, China will continue to demonstrate a sense of duty as a responsible major country and play a constructive role in promoting the cooling down of the conflict, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday.
* Indonesia on Monday sent off 3 million USD of humanitarian aid to refugees in Yemen, Palestine and Sudan.
* Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected accusations that Israeli troops had deliberately targeted UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon as "completely false" and repeated a call for them to be withdrawn from combat zones.
* Israel will listen to the United States but will decide its actions according to its own national interest, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said in a statement on Tuesday.
* The Lebanese Mission to the United Nations on Monday filed two complaints to the UN Security Council against Israel regarding the repeated attacks on the positions of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the impact of Israeli military actions on the Lebanese education sector.
* Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, said on Tuesday Israel deliberately chose to expand what he called its "aggression" to implement pre-planned schemes in the West Bank and Lebanon.
* Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has strongly condemned new sanctions imposed by the EU and Britain against some Iranian individuals and entities over the country's alleged transfer of missiles and drones to Russia.
* Syrian and Russian joint airstrikes targeted militant positions in the rural areas of Syria's northwestern provinces of Idlib and Latakia on Monday, killing 30 militants, according to local media outlet Al-Watan Online.
* The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Monday said 581 migrants were intercepted and returned off the coast of Libya in the past week.
* Personal remittances from overseas Filipinos reached 3.20 billion USD in August 2024, 3.3 percent higher than the 3.10 billion dollars recorded a year earlier, the Philippine central bank said Tuesday.
* South Korea's export volume grew for the 13th successive month in September due to strong demand for locally-made oil and tech products, central bank data showed Tuesday.
* About 2,000 female security officers currently serve in Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior, local media outlet TOLOnews reported on Monday.
* NASA launched a spacecraft from Florida on Monday on a mission to examine whether Jupiter's moon Europa has conditions suitable to support life, with a focus on the large subsurface ocean believed to be lurking beneath its thick outer shell of ice.
* The likelihood of a La Nina weather event in coming months has decreased, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday, adding that if the phenomenon did appear, it would be weak and short-lived.
* A steppe fire has devastated at least 75,000 hectares of land in the eastern Mongolian province of Dornod, which borders China, according to the country's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Tuesday.
