* Pedro Sanchez, leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), was nominated by King Felipe on Tuesday to try and form the country's new government.
* Kevin McCarthy, who was unseated as U.S. House speaker on Tuesday, told Republican colleagues that he will not run for Speaker again.
* The China-Laos Railway, as of Tuesday, 22 months into its operation, had transported more than 26.8 million tonnes of cargo, including 5.5 million tonnes of import and export cargo, according to China Railway Kunming Group Co., Ltd.
* Russia exchanged views with the United States and the European Union on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of the lightning military operation by Azerbaijan last month, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
* European Union countries on Wednesday sealed a deal on how to handle irregular immigration at times of exceptionally high arrivals, taking a step towards overhauling the bloc's asylum and migration rules before a pan-European election next year.
* Slovakia will impose temporary controls on its border with Hungary due to a rising number of illegal migrants, it said on Wednesday, following moves by Poland, the Czech Republic and Austria to tighten their own borders with Slovakia.
* Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, has decided against attending an EU-brokered event in Spain where he could have held talks with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Azerbaijani state media reported on Wednesday.
* Operations have resumed in the Black Sea ports of Ukraine's Greater Odesa region, the Ukrainian government-run Ukrinform news agency reported Wednesday, citing Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov.
* The United Nations trade body called on Wednesday for global growth to be revived by reducing inequalities between countries and for top central banks to play a bigger role in stabilising the world economy.
* Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday that joint oil supply cuts by Saudi Arabia and Russia had helped to balance global oil markets.
* Lebanese Minister of the Displaced Issam Charafeddine on Wednesday urged to open the country's sea ports to allow Syrian refugees to leave for Europe.
* Iran will not stop Israel from realizing normalization of ties with Saudi Arabia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, responding to a statement from Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei earlier in the day.
* The two attackers who detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara at the weekend entered Turkey through Syria, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday.
* Thailand will restore confidence in its critical tourism sector, officials said on Wednesday, a day after a shooting spree at a luxury shopping mall in which two foreigners were killed clouded hopes for a recovery in overseas visitors.
* Heavy rain hampered the search for 23 Indian troops reported missing on Wednesday after a flash flood in northeastern Sikkim state, with the capital city of Gangtok cut off by road, defence officials said.
* World economic growth is projected to slow from 3 percent in 2022 to 2.4 percent in 2023 with few signs of a rebound next year, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in its "Trade and Development Report 2023" published on Wednesday.
* The World Bank Tuesday said the Indian economy is projected to grow at 6.3 percent in the current financial year. The international financial institution, in its report, said India continues to show resilience against the backdrop of a challenging global environment.
* Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos on Wednesday ordered the lifting of the month-long ceiling on rice prices across the country amid two-digit decline of his approval and trust ratings.
* Foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Korea hit a record high for the first nine months of this year due to solid investment in the manufacturing industry, government data showed Wednesday.
* The euro zone economy probably shrank last quarter, according to a survey which showed demand fell in September at the fastest pace in almost three years as indebted consumers reined in spending in the face of rising borrowing costs and higher prices.
* The World Bank on Tuesday lowered Bangladesh's economic growth forecast to 5.6 percent for the financial year from July 2023 to June 2024 from its earlier estimate of 6.2 percent announced in April.
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Tuesday that his country needs to export 75 percent of crops from this year's harvest, the government press service reported.
* Myanmar earned 282.45 million USD from the export of fishery products in nearly six months of the 2023-2024 fiscal year, according to the ministry of commerce on Wednesday.
* Citing increased spending, Hungary's Finance Ministry raised the country's 2023 budget deficit target from 3.9 percent to 5.2 percent of economic output on Tuesday. In 2022, the government deficit was 6.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
* The World Bank on Wednesday forecast Sub-Saharan Africa's economic growth to decelerate to 2.5 percent in 2023 from 3.6 percent in 2022.
* Peru has decided to extend a state of emergency for 60 days in much of the country due to the "imminent danger" of potentially extreme weather caused by the arrival of El Nino and seasonal rains, the government gazette "El Peruano" said Tuesday.
* An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 rocked Davao Occidental province in the southern Philippines on Wednesday night, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said.
