* Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that the Group of 20 (G20) members reaffirmed a strong commitment to jointly tackle global health challenges and find common solutions.
* China's cultural sector sustained steady growth in revenue in the first three quarters of the year, official data showed on Sunday.
* US President Joe Biden cast an early vote in the crucial Nov. 8 midterm elections on Saturday, joined by his granddaughter Natalie, a first-time voter, and said he would visit more states in coming days to help Democrats fight for every possible vote.
* The South Pacific island nation of Fiji will hold general elections on Dec. 14, the government said.
* Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Sunday departed the presidential palace a day before the end of his term, leaving the country in a presidential vacuum amid a steep financial crisis.
* Russia announced Saturday that Moscow would immediately and indefinitely suspend its implementation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, accusing Ukraine of launching drone attacks under British guidance. Ukraine and Britain denied the accusation, while the United Nations called for restraint by all parties.
* Poland and its European Union partners stand ready to provide Ukraine with further help in the transportation of essential goods after Russia pulled out of a grain deal, the foreign ministry in Warsaw said on Sunday.
* Russia and Ukraine carried out the latest in series of prisoner of war exchanges on Saturday, with both sides returning around 50 people, officials in Moscow and Kyiv said.
* The Rwandan government said Sunday that it regretted the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) decision to expel its envoy. The DRC's government on Saturday ordered Rwandan Ambassador Vincent Karega to leave the country within 48 hours over Rwanda's alleged support of rebels of the March 23 Movement (M23).
* A record $3.3 billion in aid flowed to the Pacific islands in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a 33% increase on the previous year, according to a report released by the Lowy Institute think-tank on Monday.
* The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday called the donor community for funding to provide lifesaving support to conflict and drought affected children in Ethiopia.
* The Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul-Gheit said in Algiers on Saturday that food security and the Palestinian issue will be on the top agenda of the Arab League Summit due on November 1 and 2.
* Saudi Arabia is planning to auction five new mining exploration licences with copper, zinc, lead and iron deposits for local and international investors in 2023, the kingdom's mining ministry said on Sunday.
* Twin car bomb explosions targeting Somalia's Education Ministry building in Mogadishu on Saturday killed at least 100 people and injured more than 300 others, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Sunday.
* A tanker truck explosion in northeastern Baghdad on Saturday killed at least eight people and wounded another 20, Iraqi security sources have said.
* Colombia has received a total of 93,502,966 COVID-19 vaccine doses, of which 89,310,214 have been applied, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday.
* Mongolia's National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring on Sunday issued a warning of heavy snow and snowstorms.
