* Bulgaria's incumbent President Iliana Iotova will face former caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gurov in Sunday's presidential runoff, according to final results announced on Tuesday.
* Voter turnout in Israel's parliamentary election on Tuesday reached 77.7 percent of eligible voters by the time polls closed at 10 p.m. local time, according to the final update from Israel's Central Elections Committee, which oversees the vote.
* The humanitarian ceasefire in Oleshky, a town in the Kherson region, will remain in effect until 10:59 p.m. Moscow time (1959 GMT) on Nov. 1, Russia's Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova was quoted by local media as saying on Tuesday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the settlement of the Ukraine conflict in a telephone conversation with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that he had spoken by phone with Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. The call followed a separate phone conversation between Stubb, Store and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
* Poland will host a European maintenance center for missiles used in Patriot air defense systems, Polish Deputy Defense Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka announced on Tuesday.
* Russia has barred seven British defense industry executives from entering the country, accusing their companies of supplying Ukraine with weapons and military technologies, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
* Portuguese President Antonio Jose Seguro on Tuesday condemned the clashes and violence at weekend demonstrations, particularly in Lisbon, and called on the government, parliament and political parties to stop blaming one another and find concrete solutions to the housing crisis.
* President of the Swiss Confederation Guy Parmelin will pay a working visit to China from October 30 to November 1, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson announced on Wednesday.
* Cambodia has set a quota of 10,000 citizens for its first intake under the newly promulgated military conscription law. In a government sub-decree released on Tuesday, Prime Minister Hun Manet authorized the Ministry of National Defense to recruit 10,000 citizens aged 18 to 25 to serve a 24-month military term for the year 2026.
* Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called for expanded bilateral cooperation across sectors and continued consultations on regional developments, according to the Iranian president's office.
* U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans on Tuesday to roll back regulations aimed at curbing methane emissions from oil and gas operations, arguing that the move would reduce costs and boost domestic energy production.
* Singapore is looking to strengthen existing laws, including the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act, and introduce new legislation where necessary to hold companies accountable for transboundary haze, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu said Tuesday.
* China, Ghana and 24 other countries on Monday became the first signatories to the United Nations Convention on Negotiable Cargo Documents at a signing ceremony in Accra, capital of Ghana.
* Thailand on Tuesday launched a 50-billion-baht (about 1.48 billion USD) program to subsidize solar installations for 1 million households, allowing homes to generate their electricity and sell any surplus to the national grid.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for efforts to carry forward the women, peace and security agenda. Women's participation in peace and security is not symbolic. Peace processes are more likely to endure when women participate meaningfully in advancing them, said Guterres.
* United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) officials have called for wider adoption of science and agricultural innovations to boost agricultural productivity and food supply across Africa.
* A total of 422 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Saudi Arabia have been repatriated as of Tuesday, with about 350 more awaiting scheduled flights amid disruptions at Riyadh airport, local media said, citing Philippine authorities.
* Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei on Tuesday called for safeguarding Iran's rights and those of the regional "resistance front" by meeting Iran's conditions to end the war, according to a statement published on his website.
* Airstrikes hit the Houthi-held Red Sea port city of Mocha in Yemen's southwestern Taiz province on Wednesday, with no casualties immediately reported. Houthi-run al-Masirah TV said what it described as "Saudi aggression warplanes" carried out a series of strikes on the coastal city, including four targeting the headquarters of a local security command.
* Sri Lanka's Navy and Air Force have launched search operations for seven fishermen reported missing in two separate incidents off the country's southern and northeastern coasts, the Navy said Wednesday.
* Very Severe Cyclone Arnab, with wind speeds of nearly 130 km per hour, was expected to make landfall in India's eastern and south-eastern coastal areas in the early hours of Wednesday morning, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday.
* At least 83 percent of Mongolia's territory is at some level of risk of experiencing dzud, an extreme winter weather phenomenon, this winter, the country's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change said Tuesday.
* Four new cases of mpox have been reported in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, bringing the total number of infections in the province to 18, the provincial health department said on Tuesday.
