* Polling stations opened across Serbia at 7 a.m. local time (0600 GMT) on Sunday in snap parliamentary elections to elect the country's 250-seat National Assembly. About 6.45 million registered voters are eligible to cast ballots at nearly 8,400 polling stations, including over 90 abroad, according to the country's electoral commission.
* China's top political advisor Wang Huning on Saturday accompanied Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on a visit to Dandong in northeast China's Liaoning Province.
* Cuba will maintain daylight saving time until Nov. 7, 2027 to mitigate its power generation shortfall, which has been exacerbated by tighter US sanctions and fuel supply restrictions, local authorities said Saturday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine was prepared to freeze combat operations along the existing frontlines to bring a swift end to the conflict, while firmly rejecting territorial concessions. In an interview with ABC News on Friday, Zelensky expressed willingness to reach a ceasefire deal but rejected proposals to give up 25 percent of Ukrainian territory.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday that Starlink and its military-focused service Starshield had resumed operations at their pre-restriction speeds in Ukraine. He stressed the importance of the services for Ukraine's frontline logistics and defense against jet-powered Shahed drones.
* Russian air defense systems shot down 1,297 Ukrainian drones and five cruise missiles over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday.
* Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova said Saturday that she had discussed a humanitarian mission in Oleshky in the Kherson region with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets.
* British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called for an open, evidence-based debate on the possibility of restoring free movement between Britain and the EU, as his government considers options for closer ties with the bloc, local media reported Saturday.
* French police had made 135 arrests during demonstrations across the country by 1 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) on Saturday, French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said at a press briefing.
* Protests over rising living costs, military expansion and increased arms spending swept across several Italian cities on Saturday, with clashes between demonstrators and police reported in multiple locations, according to Italian media.
* Thousands of people marched in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra on Saturday in the latest round of housing rights protests that have now been ongoing for nearly three weeks, as civic movements maintained pressure on the government to adopt emergency measures to address the housing crisis.
* International credit rating agency Moody's on Friday affirmed France's sovereign credit rating at Aa3 with a negative outlook. Moody's said the Aa3 rating assumes France will adopt a 2027 budget aimed at reducing its fiscal deficit, with borrowing costs and social tensions easing somewhat in the coming months.
* Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has stressed the need for "serious" efforts to pursue the Iranian people's rights and ensure the payment of compensation for the damages inflicted on the country during the U.S.-Israeli attacks.
* King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh will partially reopen on Sunday after previous attacks suspended operations.
* The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by Yemen's Houthi group toward the Saudi capital Riyadh, the coalition's spokesperson said on Sunday.
* The death toll from a terrorist attack targeting a church in Jordan's southern Karak Governorate rose to nine on Saturday, after two injured victims died of their wounds, as King Abdullah II vowed a firm response to the incident.
* The Islamic Resistance in Iraq on Saturday accused US forces of violating Iraqi sovereignty through repeated airspace incursions.
* A joint patrol of the Malian Armed Forces and their partners discovered the bodies of 54 civilians at a camp in Tagadayat, about 35 km southeast of Menaka in northeastern Mali, the military said in a statement Saturday.
*The African Union (AU) has once again renewed its long-standing demand for the immediate and unconditional lifting of the unilateral sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Saturday that it had launched seven missile and drone attacks on airports, oil facilities and a military base across Saudi Arabia, as heavy Saudi-led airstrikes hit various Houthi-held areas of Yemen.
* Two rest areas in remote South Australia have been newly built or upgraded under a 4.25-million-Australian-dollar (about 2.77 million USD) project aimed at reducing driver fatigue and improving road safety, the federal government announced on Friday.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday reaffirmed the country's commitment to eradicating polio, pledging to continue efforts until the crippling disease is completely eliminated.
* An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 on Sunday struck waters near the Ogasawara Islands in the Pacific Ocean, south of Tokyo, with no tsunami warnings issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said.
