* Voters in Japan head to the polls on Sunday to elect members of their House of Representatives after new Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru called a snap election. There are 465 seats up for grabs, and more than 1,300 candidates.
* The ruling Georgian Dream party leads with 52.99 percent of the vote in Georgia's parliamentary election, the Central Election Commission announced on Saturday.
* Uzbekistan votes in a parliamentary election on Sunday. A total of 875 candidates are competing for seats in the Legislative Council. This election marks a milestone with women comprising 44.7 percent of all candidates, the highest percentage to date.
* The conservative Liberal National Party in Australia's Queensland state was on track on Sunday to end almost a decade of centre-left Labor government, after a general election held on Saturday.
* Bulgarians head to the polls on Sunday for their seventh snap election in four years after all three attempts to form a government following the latest June 2024 elections failed. Polls open at 7 a.m. (0500 GMT) and will close at 8 p.m. (1800 GMT).
* The Foreign Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday condemned the United States for the latest military drill conducted with its allies, along with other provocations, saying these actions exacerbated the already heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
* The combined profit of major industrial enterprises went down 3.5 percent year on year in the January-September period, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said in a statement on Sunday.
* Afghanistan exported agricultural products worth 737 million USD over the past nine months of the year, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported Saturday. The items included fresh fruits, dry fruits, cotton, vegetables, raisins, grapes, figs and saffron.
* US’s President Joe Biden on Saturday said it appeared Israel had only struck military targets in its attack on Iran, and that he hoped they were "the end."
* Israeli forces withdrew from a hospital complex in northern Gaza on Saturday, one day after storming it, and the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said the troops had detained dozens of male medical staffers and some of the patients.
* Middle Eastern countries on Saturday condemned Israel's military targeting of Iran, expressing concern about its impact on regional security and stability.
* Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, during a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, expressed his country's "grave concern" over possible consequences of Israeli strikes on Iran, the Qatari foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
* India Saturday expressed deep concern over the escalating situation in West Asia and urged all the involved parties to exercise restraint.
* The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Saturday that Iran's nuclear facilities "have not been impacted" in the Israeli strike earlier in the day.
* Egypt, Turkey, and Tunisia expressed on Saturday concerns about the dangerous and accelerating escalation in the Middle East, the latest of which was the Israeli attack on Iran early this morning.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the current escalation in the Middle East over the phone on Saturday, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.
* Two United Nations agencies have said that 3.7 million children under five in Sudan are at risk of acute malnutrition, warning of a worsening humanitarian crisis across the country.
* Twenty-four people were killed and five others injured after a passenger bus collided with a tractor-trailer early Saturday in the central Mexican state of Zacatecas, local authorities reported.
