* Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) has asked social media companies Meta and X to provide, within 24 hours, technical explanations of their use of artificial intelligence, the distribution of political content, the publication of electoral ads and the removal of posts ahead of the presidential runoff on Sunday, Oct. 25.
* U.S. First Lady Melania Trump secured a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the city of Oleshky, with the two sides agreeing to temporarily stop all military action, the White House said Friday in a statement. The localized ceasefire will begin on Oct. 29, it said.
* Russian forces will cease fire and introduce a "silence regime" in the Kherson region from 4 a.m. Moscow time (0100 GMT) on Oct. 27 to facilitate a humanitarian operation, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Friday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is ready to hold a trilateral meeting with the United States and Russia next month in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Friday.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned by the widespread closures imposed by Israel on Palestinian community in the West Bank, said his spokesman on Friday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday raised the prospect of renewed military strikes against Iran, claiming that the United States could seize all of the country's oil or even take over the entire country.
* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa highlighted Hungary's close ties with the European Union (EU) and the benefits of European integration on Friday, addressing a special session of the Hungarian parliament. Von der Leyen welcomed Hungary's renewed commitment to the EU, describing the country as an integral part of the European family.
* Austria has decided to expel four Russian diplomats accredited in Vienna, the Austrian Foreign Ministry said Friday. Among the four diplomats, three members from the Russian embassy had carried out activities "incompatible with their diplomatic status," and each had been declared "persona non grata," said the ministry.
* Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Friday presided over a State Council executive meeting that studied measures to coordinate population development with economic and social development and heard a report on the implementation of the arrangements made at the national conference on the services sector.
* Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), attended the third meeting of company leaders of the Korean People's Army running from Thursday to Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Saturday. The meeting marked the first gathering of the entire army after the historic Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), said the report.
* The Cambodian government on Friday approved a draft budget of approximately 39.7 trillion riels (about 9.72 billion USD) for public spending in 2027.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation modifying the scope of 50-percent additional tariffs on certain Canadian products, removing some goods from the tariff list and adding others, with the changes set to take effect on Oct. 30.
* Thailand plans to impose mandatory safety standards on electric vehicle (EV) batteries covering their manufacture, import and sale, the government said on Friday, as the country seeks to build confidence in its growing EV industry.
* Belarus plans to increase the share of electric public transport to 25 percent of its ground public passenger fleet by the end of 2029, Belarusian Industry Minister Andrei Kuznetsov said Friday.
* The Greek parliament has approved legislation banning children under 15 from accessing social media from Jan. 1, 2027, Greek media reported Friday.
* The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced early Saturday that it had intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthi group toward the Saudi capital Riyadh, according to a post on the coalition spokesperson's account on the social media platform X.
* Israeli forces launched a military operation in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday night, hours after Israeli leaders vowed to displace residents and carry out demolitions following a shooting attack near the city that killed two Israeli soldiers.
* The Saudi-led coalition said Friday that it had intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles and two drones launched by Yemen's Houthi group toward Saudi Arabia, while Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported Saudi warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on Houthi-held areas in Yemen.
* The navy of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said two supertankers seeking to cross the "unauthorized" route south of the Strait of Hormuz suffered explosions on Friday after hitting naval mines.
* The Arab League on Friday condemned an attack on a church in Jordan's Karak Governorate that left civilians dead and injured, expressing solidarity with the kingdom.
* China's fiscal revenue grew steadily in the first three quarters of 2026, with general public budget revenue reaching about 17.23 trillion yuan (about 2.56 trillion USD) during the period, latest official data showed.
* The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) and the Bank of Central African States have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance bilateral cooperation in fintech and innovation, according to an NBC press release issued on Friday.
* The Monetary Policy Committee of the National Bank of Kazakhstan on Friday lowered the base rate to 15.75 percent per annum, the central bank said in a press release.
* Passenger car production in Russia increased by more than 27 percent in the first nine months of 2026, reaching nearly 660,000 vehicles, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Anton Alikhanov said Friday.
* Authorities in Sharjah, a northern emirate of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), have temporarily closed Al Hamriyah Beach in its northern coast as a precaution against potential pollution from an offshore tanker oil spill, the Sharjah Government Media Bureau said Friday.
* The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) has allocated additional supplies, including 50 emergency toilets, 500 family relief kits, 500 warm packs and more than 1,000 boxes of food, to the quake-hit area in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.
* The Australian government on Saturday announced an additional 10 million Australian dollars (about 7 million USD) in funding to upgrade an airport damaged by severe flooding in Queensland, the northeastern state of Australia.
* A magnitude-7.2 earthquake struck waters near the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Saturday, prompting the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center to issue a tsunami warning. No casualties or property damage have been reported so far.
* The Australian government announced on Friday that construction has begun on a new laboratory wing at the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) to strengthen the country's ability to detect and respond to emerging disease threats.
* The United States has reported 4,588 confirmed measles cases so far in 2026, more than twice the total for all of 2025, according to the latest data released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
* Kenya's Ministry of Health on Friday confirmed a second death from the ongoing Ebola outbreak after a 65-year-old woman succumbed to the virus.
* A total of 188 forest and steppe fires have been reported across Mongolia since the beginning of this year, burning at least 1,907,944 hectares of land, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Friday.
