* Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinpingsaid China is willing to work with the United States to find ways to get along to the benefit of both, Chinese state television reported on Thursday, ahead of a possible meeting with US President Joe Biden in Indonesia.
* The new Italian cabinet led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni won a confidence vote on Wednesday in the upper house of Italy's parliament by a comfortable margin.
* The Serbian parliament elected the new government led by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic in Belgrade on Wednesday.
* United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday that he was "relatively optimistic" that a U.N.-brokered deal that allowed a resumption of Ukraine Black Sea grain exports would be extended beyond mid-November.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday supervised a military exercise of the country's strategic deterrence forces via video link in the Kremlin.
* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday she spoke with new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and is looking forward to working on issues such as Russia-Ukraine crisis and climate change.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would be pleased to host new Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson in Türkiye during a phone talk between the two leaders on Wednesday, after months of tension with the Nordic country over its NATO bid.
* Solidarity is the only way to deal with the energy crisis, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Greek newspaper Ta Nea before a visit to Athens.
* Foreign ministers and other top officials from Latin America and the Caribbean on Wednesday agreed on the urgent need to jointly spur change in the region's "development pattern," said the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
* Ukraine has boosted its forces in the northern region near Belarus to counter any possible renewed Russian attack across the border, Ukraine's General Staff said on Thursday.
* Sweden's Armed Forces said on Wednesday they were back at the site of the Russian Nord Stream gas pipeline leaks in the southern part of the Baltic Sea to further investigate the suspected blasts.
* Israel's government approved a landmark US-brokered maritime border deal with Lebanon on Thursday, a statement from Prime Minister Yair Lapid's office said.
* Colombia's Congress on Wednesday approved a law to allow President Gustavo Petro to seek peace deals with leftist rebels and criminal groups tied to drug trafficking via negotiations and processes of surrender.
* Igor Sechin, the head of Russia's largest oil producer Rosneft ROSN.MM, said on Thursday that proposals by the European Commission to introduce cap prices for Russian gas were "unthinkable".
* Norway, now Europe's biggest supplier of natural gas, has increased its pipeline inspections in the wake of the suspected blasts on the Nord Stream system last month, the head of the country's gas supply infrastructure told Reuters.
* Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Iranians on Thursday to unite after an attack claimed by Islamic State on a shrine that killed 15 people, saying those behind it "will surely be punished", state television reported.
* The European Commission on Wednesday adopted three proposals aimed at improving air, water and wastewater quality in the European Union (EU).
* Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, expanded 15.6 percent year on year to 1.00376 trillion yuan in the first nine months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.
* Republic of Korea's real gross domestic product (GDP), adjusted for inflation, grew 0.3 percent in the July-September quarter compared to the previous quarter, Bank of Korea (BOK) data showed Thursday.
* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Egypt have reached a $3 billion funding deal that will run over six months, the IMF's representative in Egypt, Ivana Holler, said on Thursday in remarks aired on state TV.
* European shares opened lower on Thursday, as investors were cautious ahead of a widely expected interest rate hike from the European Central Bank, while Credit Suisse tumbled after the embattled Swiss bank unveiled restructuring plans.
* Israel's Bank Leumi LUMI.TA would like to tap into investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia, Chairman Samer Haj Yehia told a business forum in Riyadh, which he is attending in the latest sign of a potential thawing in Saudi-Israeli relations.
* Saudi Arabia's Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan told Al-Arabiya in an interview on Thursday that investment in the Kingdom has increased 19% in the first nine months of 2022.
* Bolivia's government said on Wednesday it will temporarily suspend exports of food products including soy and beef amid protests in the key farming region of Santa Cruz.
* Britain's biggest trade union said it was balloting 350,000 workers in the state-run National Health Service (NHS) on strike action over pay this winter, highlighting the challenges facing new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he takes office.
* A coalition of Ghana's ruling party members of parliament have called off demands that finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta be removed from office until a support package is negotiated with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
* The European Union (EU) will provide 500 million euros (504 million USD) in grants for the Western Balkan countries to tackle energy crisis, European Commission chief said here Wednesday.
* The Polish government will provide aid of 5.8 billion zloty (1.23 billion USD) to companies hit by rising energy prices, the country's development and technology minister Waldemar Buda announced on Wednesday.
* French President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Wednesday to "never leave the French without a solution" in the face of high inflation and strikes.
* The situation for exporters in Germany "remains difficult" and sentiment among them "has improved a bit" only in October, the ifo Institute for Economic Research said on Wednesday.
* Malta's Health Ministry on Wednesday launched a strategy that aims to beef up the country's workforce in the health sector which is struggling to cope with departures and a lack of new recruits.
* Africa's top public health body said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was "not getting out of hand" and that it was still under control, despite an increase in cases that have spread to the capital Kampala.
* A lack of funding threatens assistance for most of the 575,00 refugees in Chad, the largest number of refugees in West Africa, a UN spokesman said on Wednesday.
* A new Israeli missile strike hit Damascus after midnight Wednesday, the state-run SANA news agency said.
