* Members of the Kyrgyz Parliament (Jogorku Kenesh) decided to dissolve the legislature on Thursday. The draft resolution was introduced by Member of Parliament Ulan Primov, representing an initiative group of 32 lawmakers.
* U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced that tariffs, on top of the sweeping reciprocal duties imposed on countries worldwide, will be collected on specific products starting from Oct. 1.
* The weather bureau of Laos has issued a warning as tropical storm Bualoi approaches, expected to bring widespread rainfall and increase the risk of flooding and landslides across the country.
* All international passengers arriving in Indonesia through airports, seaports, and cross-border posts will be required to complete arrival cards via the online All Indonesia system since Oct. 1, authorities announced Thursday.
* Indonesia and Canada officially signed the Indonesia-Canada Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (ICA-CEPA) in Ottawa on Wednesday local time, with the deal expected to take effect in 2026, according to a statement released by the Indonesian Presidential Secretariat on Thursday.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that U.S. President Donald Trump has given Ukraine the green light to carry out retaliatory strikes against Russia, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Thursday.
* The Kremlin believes Washington still retains the political will to advance peaceful settlement efforts in Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
* U.S. President Donald Trump's sudden proclamation last weekend imposing a 100,000-U.S.-dollar fee on new H-1B visa applications has generated intense debate across the technology sector in the country.
* British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Friday that digital ID will be mandatory for Britons to work in the country, as part of plans to tackle illegal migration.
* The Nord Stream pipeline string that remained intact after the explosion can be put into operation at any time, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at a briefing on Friday.
* Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that "meaningful progress" was made on bilateral and regional issues during his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday.
* The Netherlands said on Friday it will return to Indonesia a collection of more than 28,000 fossils gathered "unjustly" during the colonial era, which includes key specimens for understanding early human evolution.
* Germany plans to invest 35 billion euros (about 40.95 billion USD) over the next five years to strengthen its space security capabilities, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said Thursday.
* A drone was downed and detonated near the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant overnight amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, posing constant dangers to nuclear safety, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a statement on Thursday.
* Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with visiting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan the cooperation on the Armenian nuclear power plant, TASS news agency reported on Friday.
* Russian Tu-95MS long-range bombers completed a planned patrol mission over the neutral waters of the Bering and Okhotsk Seas, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
* Russia will extend its full ban on gasoline exports until the end of 2025 and introduce a ban on diesel fuel exports for non-producers over the same period, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said Thursday.
* The Slovenian government on Thursday declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persona non grata. The government recalled that the International Court of Justice ruled in July 2024 that several Israeli policies breached international humanitarian law.
* Poland reopened its border with Belarus at midnight on Thursday, nearly two weeks after closing it ahead of Russian-Belarusian military exercises, local media reported.
* Lithuania's parliament on Thursday approved the 20th government, a coalition formed by the Social Democrats, Nemunas Dawn, and the political group of the Farmers and Greens Union and the Christian Families Alliance. The new Cabinet's program was adopted with 80 votes in favor, 40 against, and two abstentions.
* The Ukrainian forces have destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber and two An-26 transport aircraft, Ukrainian authorities said on Thursday. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Su-34 was shot down overnight while attempting to attack the city of Zaporizhzhia with guided bombs.
* Iran and Russia signed a 25-billion-U.S. dollar agreement to build four third-generation nuclear power units in the Sirik region of Iran's southern Hormozgan province, state news agency IRNA reported Friday.
* Indonesia has issued 1,012 golden visas to foreign citizens, securing more than 48 trillion rupiah (around 2.9 billion USD) in investment as of Sept. 23, 2025, the Directorate General of Immigration under the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections said in a press release Friday.
* A merchant vessel of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) returned to the north after crossing the "inter-Korean maritime border" on Friday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a statement.
* India's federal commerce ministry Friday said trade discussions with the United States will continue with a view to achieving an early conclusion of an agreement. The announcement was made following the federal Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal's visit to the United States from Sept. 22 to 24.
* The global digital trade sector has demonstrated significant growth momentum, with export value rising from 4.59 trillion USD in 2020 to 7.23 trillion USD in 2024, achieving an average annual growth rate of 12.1 percent, according to a report released Friday in east China's Zhejiang Province.
* Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos has ordered an extension of the country's rice import ban to support Filipino farmers and stabilize rice prices, Presidential Communications Office Undersecretary Claire Castro said Friday.
* India's Ministry of External Affairs on Friday confirmed that as many as 2,417 nationals had been deported from the United States this year so far. Announcing the figure before media persons, the ministry's spokesman Randhir Jaiswal stated that India stood firm against illegal migration and was committed to promoting legal pathways for migration.
* The Indonesian government will maintain the excise tax on tobacco products at its current level next year in a move to safeguard the cigarette industry and protect jobs, Finance Minister Purbaya Yudhi Sadewa announced on Friday.
* The Netherlands said on Friday it will return to Indonesia a collection of more than 28,000 fossils gathered "unjustly" during the colonial era, which includes key specimens for understanding early human evolution.
* Malaysia's Johor has firmly established itself as Southeast Asia's fastest-growing data center hub, with aggregate supply nearly doubling over the past 12 months to 5.8 gigawatts (GW) as of the second quarter of 2025, a report showed Thursday.
* Yemen's Houthi group said Friday that it had launched a missile at Israel. In a televised statement aired by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV, Yahya Sarea, the Houthi military spokesman, said that the group launched a "hypersonic ballistic missile" toward a "sensitive target" in the Jaffa area in southern Tel Aviv on Thursday night.
* With hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing the Gaza City military offensive, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain amid eroding relief operations, UN humanitarians said on Thursday.
* Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Thursday announced a deal under which the federal oil ministry will take crude produced in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and export it through a pipeline to Türkiye.
* About 700,000 Palestinians have fled Gaza City as Israeli forces intensified their ground and air assault on the enclave's largest urban center, the Israeli military said Thursday.
* The Israel Airports Authority (IAA) said Thursday it will partially reopen the main crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan for passenger traffic only, starting Friday morning.
* Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday accused Israel of committing "a war of genocide" on Gaza, saying these crimes will be recorded in "the pages of international conscience as one of the most horrific chapters of humanitarian tragedy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries."
* Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has told European leaders that Iran is ready to address concerns about the nature of its nuclear program "within the framework of international law and its rights."
* At least two people were killed and 48 others wounded on Thursday when Israel conducted multiple airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa, Houthi-run health authorities said, calling the figures an "initial toll."
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged funding and political support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
* A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised Tanzania's strong economic performance, while urging continued fiscal discipline and reforms to sustain growth momentum.
* Authorities have initially recorded 10 deaths and 13 missing as severe tropical storm Bualoi continues to barrel through the Philippines, the country's Office of Civil Defense (OCD) and local media reported on Friday.
