* Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Sunday ordered police investigation into a sporting stadium stampede that killed at least 125 people and injured about 320 others after a football match.
* China's permanent mission to the United Nations (UN) in Vienna on Friday thwarted an amendment proposed by the AUKUS countries to legitimize their nuclear submarine cooperation at a meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, the mission's head has said.
* The leading government coalition party, the Civic Democratic Party (ODS), won the most seats in this year's Senate elections, according to official results published by the Czech Statistical Office on Saturday.
* Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins' center-right party New Unity on Saturday won the Baltic country's parliamentary elections, an exit poll conducted by the research center SKDS showed. The party took an estimated 22.5 percent of the votes, according to the exit poll.
* Brazilians vote to elect a president, senators, Congress deputies, governors and state legislatures on Sunday. President Bolsonaro faces a big challenge from former leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
* Israel gave its preliminary nod on Sunday to a draft US-brokered deal demarcating a maritime border with Lebanon that could lead to possible profit-sharing from future gas production by Beirut in a long-disputed Mediterranean prospect.
* The Greece-Bulgaria gas pipeline, the Gas Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB), started commercial operation on Saturday, according to ICGB AD, owner and operator of the IGB.
* European Union Ambassador Bettina Muscheidt left Nicaragua on Saturday, just three days after being declared "persona non grata" by the government of President Daniel Ortega, in a week of tensions with the international community.
* Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Saturday warned that the Israeli settlement construction took "center stage" in the electoral campaigns of the right-wing and extreme-right parties in Israel.
* An updated UN proposal calling for an extension of the existing truce set to expire on October 2 has been received by both sides of Yemen's warring parties, but its fate remains unclear.
* Gunfire rang out across Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday and fire broke out at the French embassy as self-declared leader Ibrahim Traore accused President Paul-Henri Damiba of staging a counter-offensive after his apparent ouster a day earlier.
* A regional country has mediated between Iran and the United States for the "simultaneous release of prisoners," Iran's Nournews said on Saturday, shortly after Tehran allowed an Iranian-American businessman out of prison on a one-week furlough.
* The Indian government has cut a windfall tax on domestically produced crude oil to 8,000 rupees per tonne from 10,500 rupees per tonne from Sunday, after a decline in global oil prices.
* British Prime Minister Liz Truss tried to reassure her party and the public on Sunday by saying she should have done more to "lay the ground" for an economic plan that caused the pound to fall to record lows and sent government borrowing costs soaring.
* The Australian government has accused the country's giant telecommunications provider of failing to help customers affected by a major data breach.
* Sri Lanka's state-owned petroleum retailer Ceylon Petroleum Corporation will reduce the price of petrol with effect from midnight Saturday, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said.
* Iraq exported 98.76 million barrels of crude oil in September with revenues of 8.77 billion USD, the country's oil ministry said Saturday.
* Florida and the Carolinas, staggered by one of the fiercest storms in US history, faced a massive recovery on Saturday as remnants of Hurricane Ian threatened further flooding along the Eastern Seaboard while leaving tens of billions of dollars in damage in its wake. The number of confirmed fatalities from Ian rose to at least 50, most in Lee County, Florida.
* The number of dengue fever cases is continuing to rise in Pakistan amid an outbreak blamed largely on floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains in the South Asian country.
