* Egypt's House of Representatives will hold an emergency session on Sunday (local time) following a request from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, state-run Nile TV news website reported Saturday.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Dushanbe on Sunday for an official visit to Tajikistan and to attend the 25th meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) at the invitation of Tajik Prime Minister Kokhir Rasulzoda.
* Cambodia and Kazakhstan signed six cooperation agreements on Saturday to strengthen bilateral ties, according to Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.
* Protests against the rising cost of living turned violent on Saturday in several northern Italian cities, including Milan, Bologna and Turin, leaving dozens of people injured, according to Italian media reports.
* Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and other Portuguese cities on Saturday to demand affordable housing and action to tackle the rising cost of living.
* A long-running agricultural show in Perth, the capital of the state of Western Australia, was forced into lockdown and closed early on Saturday evening after fights involving groups of youths escalated.
* Latvia's National Armed Forces lifted an orange air threat alert on Sunday for the municipalities of Bauska, Aizkraukle and Ogre.
* Russian forces conducted large-scale overnight strikes on multiple industrial and energy facilities supporting the military-industrial complex in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
* Twelve apartment buildings and two private houses were damaged in an overnight Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's St. Petersburg, local media reported on Sunday.
* Romanian Air Force F-16 aircraft shot down two drones over Romanian Black Sea territorial waters on Saturday afternoon, the country's Ministry of National Defence said in a press release.
* At least 20 policemen were abducted by unidentified armed men in Mastung district of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province on Friday night, a government official told Xinhua on Saturday.
* French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Saturday urged Israel to urgently halt Israeli settlers' violence in the West Bank. In a post on social media platform X, Barrot said the mayor of the French town of Aulnoye-Aymeries had been violently attacked by extremist settlers in the West Bank.
* Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said Saturday that his country is prepared to take any measures requested by Saudi Arabia to defend the kingdom's security and sovereignty, according to state-run Nile TV.
* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said Saturday that cross-border traffic and transactions between Iran and Pakistan have been temporarily suspended owing to technical problems.
* Yahya Ali al-Ra'i, speaker of Yemen's House of Representatives, on Saturday urged Egypt not to become militarily involved in the escalating conflict between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.
* Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that his country will not surrender its sovereign rights under pressure, but remains "ready for dialogue based on mutual respect and credible guarantees."
* The Saudi Ministry of Education said on Saturday that the shift from in-person classes to remote learning in the Riyadh region will be extended through Oct. 22 as part of ongoing precautionary measures.
* Fierce fighting erupted near Yemen's strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait on Sunday as government forces launched a fresh offensive against Houthi positions in the area, a government military official told Xinhua.
* A total of 987 Afghan refugee families, comprising 4,528 individuals, returned to their homeland, Afghanistan, from neighboring Iran and Pakistan over the past week, the deputy spokesman for the Afghan government announced on Saturday.
* Nearly a dozen people, including several women, died, and around 30 were injured when a truck moving at high speed mowed down a group of devotees near a temple in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh during the night intervening Saturday and Sunday, local police said on Sunday.
* The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has spread to an eighth province, with new cases confirmed in Nord-Ubangi Province in the north, according to the latest health ministry report released Sunday.
* Tanzania has strengthened health screening and surveillance measures for international travelers following an Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a recent case in neighboring Kenya involving a patient who traveled from the DRC.
* The United States reported 4,410 confirmed measles cases in 2026 as of Thursday, nearly double the 2,289 cases reported for all of 2025, putting the country on track for its highest annual total since 1991, according to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
