* Syria's transitional authorities announced on Monday the final results of the country's first parliamentary elections since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad in December last year, describing the process as transparent and inclusive despite challenges.
* President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina on Monday appointed Ruphin Fortunat Dimbisoa Zafisambo as the country's new prime minister, a week after the government was dissolved amid mass protests.
* Malawi's new president, Peter Mutharika, has released a partial lineup of his Cabinet. Mutharika, who won the Sept. 16 presidential election and took office on Saturday, appointed Enock Chihana of the Alliance for Democracy (AFORD) party as second vice president on Sunday. His running mate during the election, Jane Ansah, is the first vice president.
* Libya's elections body said on Monday it will resume municipal polls on Oct. 20, covering dozens of local councils in towns across the country.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemns the continued arbitrary detentions of UN personnel and its partners, as well as the ongoing unlawful seizure of UN premises and assets in areas under Houthi control, a UN spokesperson said on Monday.
* During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), China's light industry expanded steadily, with output continuing to grow, according to the China National Light Industry Council. In 2024, China had 140,000 light-industry enterprises exceeding the designated size, which provided 17.92 million jobs.
* Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has ordered law enforcement agencies to step up efforts against illegal mining and smuggling, particularly in tin-rich regions, state news agency Antara reported.
* The New Zealand Parliament has passed the Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Act, marking a significant milestone in marine conservation for the region.
* Malaysia will continue to deepen its cooperation with Pakistan in several key sectors, including food security, aviation, healthcare and cybersecurity, the leaders of both countries said.
* Croatia has completed its section of the Corridor Vc motorway, a major north-south transport route linking Central Europe with the Adriatic Sea, with the opening of the final five kilometers on Monday. Corridor Vc is one of Europe's key transnational transport corridors, designed to improve mobility and integration across Hungary, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* Russia shot down more than 350 Ukrainian drones and other projectiles over the past 24 hours, the country's Defense Ministry said on Monday. Russia's air defense systems shot down six U.S.-made HIMARS rockets, one long-range cruise missile Neptune and 356 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, the ministry said in a statement.
* Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked U.S. President Donald Trump to eliminate the newly imposed 50 percent tariffs on Brazilian products in a phone call on Monday, said the Brazilian presidency's communications secretariat.
* Belarus and Oman on Monday signed a mutual visa exemption agreement during a ceremony attended by leaders of both countries, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Omani Sultan Haitham bin Tariq Al Said.
* Denmark's South Jutland Police said Monday it has introduced a fixed-wing drone to patrol the Danish-German land border. The new asset is part of the temporary border-control regime reorganized in 2023 to focus more on cross-border crime.
* Multiple rounds of shelling were heard at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) on Monday amid the longest off-site power loss of the plant, posing "growing risks" to its nuclear safety and security, according to a UN nuclear watchdog statement.
* An additional 171 activists detained by Israel for taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), an aid mission bound for Gaza, were deported from the country on Monday, said a statement issued by the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
* Iran has no plans to hold talks with France, Britain and Germany following their move to trigger the "snapback" mechanism to reimpose UN sanctions, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday.
* Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that securing a Gaza ceasefire, freeing captives and detainees, and launching a political process toward establishing a Palestinian state were steps in the right direction for lasting peace and stability.
* Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has ordered the extension of the state of emergency in four coastal provinces and one canton for 30 days amid escalating violence linked to organized crime, the government announced Monday.
* One Syrian security personnel was killed Monday when fighting erupted in two Kurdish-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, raising tensions between Syria's transitional authorities and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
* Yemen's government naval forces seized on Sunday a smuggling boat loaded with materials used to manufacture drones, explosives and missiles off the country's southern coast, a security official said.
* The World Bank on Tuesday lowered Cambodia's economic growth forecast for 2025 to 4.8 percent, down from 6 percent in 2024. Aaditya Mattoo, chief economist of the World Bank's East Asia Pacific Region, said U.S. tariff hike and border conflict with Thailand had hampered the Southeast Asian nation's growth.
* Singapore's digital economy accounted for 18.6 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, up from 14.9 percent in 2019, according to the Singapore Digital Economy Report 2025 released Monday by the Infocomm Media Development Authority.
* The Philippines' year-on-year headline inflation quickened to 1.7 percent in September from 1.5 percent in August, due to higher transport and food costs, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.
* Thailand's headline inflation declined for a sixth successive month in September, driven by lower energy and food prices, official data showed on Monday. The Southeast Asian country's consumer price index (CPI) fell 0.72 percent last month from a year earlier, decelerating slightly from a 0.79 percent decrease in August, according to the Ministry of Commerce.
* Indonesia has expanded its coffee market with the shipment of 15 tons of Arabica coffee worth 3 billion rupiah (around 180,000 USD) from the slopes of Mount Argopuro in East Java to Saudi Arabia on Monday.
* The death toll from rain-sparked disasters in Nepal has reached 51, a government agency said on Tuesday. Among the dead, 38 were killed in landslides, 10 in floods and three in lightning strikes, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority said in a statement.
* Nearly 100,000 deaths from 2023's unprecedented heatwaves were linked to human-induced climate change, according to an Australian-led global study. The study released Tuesday found that unprecedented heatwaves in 2023 caused an estimated 178,486 excess deaths worldwide, equivalent to 23 deaths per million, with more than half attributable to manmade climate change.
* The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck Cebu province in the central Philippines on Sept. 30 resulted in 72 deaths and affected 547,394 individuals, the country's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Monday.
