* Singapore cut its forecast for its carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 and will achieve a peak in emissions earlier than that as the city-state strives to achieve net zero by 2050, Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said on Tuesday.
* European Union countries agreed on Monday to raise their target to curb greenhouse gas emissions under the Paris climate agreement next year, as the bloc attempts to rally ambition among major emitters ahead of this year's U.N. climate talks.
* The European Union counts on a strong relationship with Britain in full respect of the agreements made after its departure from the bloc, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.
* Romania's Defense Minister Vasile Dincu resigned on Monday, saying he could not collaborate with the country's president.
* German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday vowed to provide wide-ranging assistance in rebuilding Ukraine, including aid for agriculture, the health sector and the restoration of the country's energy networks.
* Russian exports jumped by 25.4 percent year on year to 431 billion USD in the first nine months of 2022, a senior official said Monday.
* Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday told his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov that Israel won't provide weapons to Ukraine.
* Germany is ready to continue practice drills on protection of critical infrastructure in Estonia, the German military said on Monday, as a first such exercise dubbed "Baltic Tiger" was about to wrap up.
* The Mediterranean Conference of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) kicked off on Monday in Jordan.
* The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reaffirmed on Monday "its strong commitment to creating space for a political and diplomatic solution between Lebanon and Israel."
* Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said Monday that the United States wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal without paying the "costs."
* The chairman of Israel's Bank Leumi LUMI.TA is due to speak at Saudi Arabia's flagship investment conference in Riyadh on Thursday, in the latest sign of a potential thawing in relations between the two countries.
* Africa is confronted with multiple crises related to terrorism, internal conflicts, climate and health, the African Union (AU) Chairperson and Senegalese president Macky Sall said on Monday.
* Clashes on two eastern fronts between Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) forces and rebel militias have killed civilians and uprooted thousands more, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
* Vaccination continues to be one of the most effective tools in combating both influenza and COVID-19, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe urges all those eligible to get their influenza and COVID-19 booster shots as soon as possible.
* US stocks rose on Monday as investors awaited earnings reports from high-profile tech companies.
* Portugal's Prime Minister Antonio Costa has urged the European Central Bank (ECB) to be prudent in raising interest rates from abnormally low levels, despite not expecting a dramatic increase in household bad loans in his country.
* Malaysia's leading index (LI) recorded an increase of 4 percent, equivalent of 4.3 points, to 111.3 points in August, official data showed Tuesday.
* Republic of Korea's inflation expectations marked the first rebound in three months in October on the back of higher utility costs, central bank data showed Tuesday.
* Financial analysts upgraded their forecast for Brazil's economic growth for 2022 from 2.71 percent to 2.76 percent, and from 0.59 percent to 0.63 percent for 2023,, the Central Bank of Brazil said Monday.
* Egypt is targeting a primary budget surplus of 2.3% for the fiscal year 2024-2025, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.
* Malta plans to spend 508 million euros (501.4 million USD) in 2023 to ease the impacts of the rising energy costs, Prime Minister Robert Abela said on Monday.
* European Union energy ministers will discuss a bloc-wide gas price cap on Tuesday, attempting to navigate their next steps although it is likely to be weeks before any final decisions.
* Greece could face a very challenging year in 2023 but is prepared and the country's national debt poses no "real fear", the minister of development and investments Adonis Georgiadis said on Tuesday.
* Five Palestinians were killed in one of the largest firefights in recent weeks and another was killed later after Israeli security forces raided the flashpoint city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank early on Tuesday, Palestinian officials said.
* A first-of-its-kind panel organized by NASA opened a study on Monday of what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly termed UFOs, bringing together experts from scientific fields ranging from physics to astrobiology.
* At least ten soldiers were killed and about 50 wounded in a militant attack early Monday on an army base in Djibo, in northern Burkina Faso, the army said in a statement.
* At least 15 people were killed as Cyclone Sitrang slammed Bangladesh's coastlines and weakened to a tropical depression in the early hours of Tuesday.
* An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 struck the South Sandwich Islands region on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.
