* Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Saturday to strengthen measures for protecting transport crossing through the Kerch Strait, the power grid connecting Crimea and the main gas pipeline to the peninsula.
* Ministers of interior and immigration of Italy, Spain, Greece, Malta and Cyprus on Saturday called for enhanced surveillance of external European Union (EU) borders to check irregular immigration.
* Ukraine's economy shrank by an estimated 30% in the first three quarters of 2022 compared with the same period in 2021, largely due to the Russia- Ukraine crisis, the economy ministry said on Saturday.
* The Defense Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Saturday voiced grave concern over the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
* US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a decision by the OPEC+ grouping to cut oil production was "unhelpful and unwise" for the global economy, especially emerging markets, the Financial Times said on Sunday.
* Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is confident a second referendum on Scottish independence could take place in October next year, she said on Sunday.
* China sent a solar exploration satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Sunday, furthering the country's scientific endeavor to unravel the mysteries of the Sun.
* Global food prices slipped for the sixth consecutive month in September, as lower demand and strong production levels helped balance the impacts of higher energy and transportation costs, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported Friday.
* The UN Human Rights Council on Friday, the last day of its 51st session, adopted a resolution calling upon all the relevant countries to find ways to remedy historical racial injustice so as to help restore the dignity of the affected countries and their people.
* An escalation of tension in the West Bank would fuel an atmosphere of fear, hatred and anger between Israelis and Palestinians, a senior UN official warned on Saturday.
* The Syrian Foreign Ministry on Saturday demanded the immediate withdrawal of US forces from Syria.
* Three people died in the explosion on the Crimean Bridge, which occurred Saturday morning, according to preliminary information from Russia's investigative committee into the incident.
* The remittances sent by Sri Lankan foreign workers abroad increased by 10 percent in September compared with August this year, Minister of Labor and Foreign Employment Manusha Nanayakkara said.
* Strikes staged by France's hard-left CGT union at refineries of ExxonMobil XOM.N and TotalEnergies TTEF.PA continued on Sunday, union officials at both companies told Reuters.
* Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Saturday that his country ranked among the top 10 disaster vulnerable countries in the Global Climate Risk Index, witnessing multiple natural disasters over the years.
* The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Ghana to weather the storm amid global economic uncertainties.
* Zambia and Namibia have signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of a natural gas pipeline project, a Zambian senior official said Friday.
* Authorities in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region disclosed they have intercepted 97 Ethiopians in a suspected case of human trafficking.
* Two alleged terrorists were killed and four security forces injured on Saturday in an exchange of fire in Swat district of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the Counter Terrorism Department of police said.
* Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers have killed 14 al-Shabab militants, including a senior al-Shabab leader in charge of the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia, a military commander confirmed Saturday.
* Flash floods have been hitting parts of Cambodia, leaving at least four people dead, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said on Saturday.
* Hurricane Julia has made landfall along the coast near Laguna De Perlas in Nicaragua, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Sunday. The hurricane is located about 30 miles (50 km) north-northeast of Bluefields, Nicaragua, with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour (140 km/h).
* Rains eased in Australia's New South Wales on Sunday but authorities continued to warn people to be aware of rising flood waters, as days of rain in much of the most populous state has swollen rivers and caused flooding.
* Ten people, including a primary school-aged girl, were confirmed dead by Irish police on Saturday following an explosion at a petrol station in Donegal, Ireland.
* At least 10 people have died and another 60 are missing after a boat capsized in Nigeria's southeastern Anambra state, officials said on Saturday.
* The highly pathogenic bird flu avian influenza has been detected in a duck farm in France's southwestern department of Gironde, French daily newspaper Le Figaro reported on Saturday.
