* Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has said that Cambodia has set a strategy to transform it into a high-income country by 2050.
* The ruling party of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a politburo meeting on Wednesday, hailing the visit to Russia by Kim Jong Un, the DPRK's top leader, as a success with desired results attained, the country's state news agency reported Friday.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani will visit Moscow in the next few weeks, an Iraqi foreign ministry statement quoted Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein as saying during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
* NATO will not accept Ukraine as a member until the end of the conflict, the bloc's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said.
* The Iranian foreign minister said he had discussed with his Russian and Turkish counterparts, as well as the United Nations (UN) envoy, the latest situation in Syria in New York, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported Saturday.
* The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned Swiss charge d'affaires, whose country represents U.S. interests in Iran, to protest against U.S. "baseless anti-Tehran" claims, said the ministry on Friday.
* Canada will give an extra C$650 million ($482 million) in military aid to Ukraine over the next three years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the Canadian Parliament on Friday during a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
* The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) confirmed that it struck the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Crimea on Friday.
* Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Solskyi and his Polish counterpart Robert Telus held a phone conversation to discuss Ukraine's grain exports issue, the Ukrainian government press service said Thursday.
* The Israeli army on Friday carried out raids on military monitoring posts belonging to Hamas in Gaza in response to incendiary balloons fired from the coastal enclave into Israel, according to Palestinian and Israeli sources.
* Iran and Djibouti have decided to resume diplomatic relations in line with "their peoples' interests and aspirations," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
* The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday said that some 5.3 million have fled from the war in Sudan since mid-April when the conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
* At least 20 people, most of them civilians, were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on Saturday at a checkpoint in Beledweyne town in central Somalia, local officials said.
* The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said Friday that conflict, displacement, climate-related shocks and persistent disease outbreaks continue to be the major drivers of need in Ethiopia.
* Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday urged the Bank of Mexico to begin promoting economic growth as inflation continues to ease in Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy.
* Spain's economy grew by 0.5 percent between April and June (second quarter, Q2) this year, the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) said on Friday. Q2 growth was higher than 0.6 percent registered in the first quarter of 2023, but 1 percentage point higher than the preliminary estimate.
* Nigeria expects to lift oil production to 2.1 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of next year after oil companies operating in the country committed investments of $13.5 billion in the short term, the presidency said on Saturday.
* Pakistan's weekly inflation surged 38.66 percent on a year-on-year basis, mainly due to a rise in petroleum prices, the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) said on Saturday.
* A recent report estimated that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will help Bangladesh's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth by at least 2.1 percent, generate an additional 2.5 percent to 5.1 percent of employment, and decrease extreme poverty by 1.3 percent.
* A total of 33.4 million foreign tourists visited Turkey between January and August, up by 13.95 percent from the previous year, showed statistics released by the Culture and Tourism Ministry on Friday.
