* The leader of Spain's right-wing People's Party (PP), Alberto Nunez Feijoo, on Friday failed for a second time to win the support of the Spanish Congress to become prime minister.
* Lawmakers return to the U.S. Congress on Saturday with no clear path to resolving a squabble that appears likely to close wide swaths of the federal government, from national parks to financial regulation, in less than 18 hours.
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday met with Secretary-General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg to discuss cooperation and rapprochement between Ukraine and the alliance.
* Leaders of nine southern European countries have called for the European Union (EU) to finalize a new migration and asylum deal before next year's European Parliament elections, and to step up efforts to prevent departures from North Africa.
* The world body and the government of Azerbaijan have agreed on a mission to the Nagorno-Karabakh region, said a UN spokesman on Friday.
* The European Union (EU) has provided 81 billion euros (85.95 billion USD) in aid for Ukraine since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Ukrinform news agency reported Friday, citing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
* More than 100,000 refugees have now arrived in Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh, the head of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said late on Friday.
* Italy's coast guard rescued 177 people including 27 crew from a ferry that caught fire travelling from the Italian island of Lampedusa to Porto Empedocle in Sicily, it said on Saturday.
* Armed militants withdrew on Friday from the eight schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) at Ain Al-Helweh camp in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
* Kenya is making progress in enhancing child online safety amid the rapid proliferation of the internet, a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) official said Friday.
* Yemen's national airline will suspend the only international commercial flight from Yemen's capital Sanaa in response to the Houthi administration blocking the carrier from withdrawing its funds in Sanaa banks, four company executives, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.
* China's next lunar probe Chang'e-6 will be launched around 2024 as planned, with related development tasks currently in progress, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said Friday.
* People aged 65 and above accounted for 19.1 percent of the total citizens in Singapore by June, compared to 11.7 percent in 2013, according to the Population in Brief released by the National Population and Talent Division Friday.
* Malaysia recorded unhealthy air quality in some areas on Friday, including the capital Kuala Lumpur, Selangor state and Perak state, all of which sit along the country's west coast.
* Around 1.8 million people in the U.S. received a COVID-19 vaccine during the week ended Sept. 22, according to data compiled by health care data and analytics firm IQVIA Holdings Inc IQV.N.
* The Swedish Armed Forces have been called in to help the police forces combat a recent surge in organized crime, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a press conference in Stockholm on Friday.
* Production in India's eight core industries registered an increase of 12.1 percent in August over the same month last year, official data showed on Friday. The eight sectors were cement, coal, crude oil, electricity, fertilizers, natural gas, refinery products and steel.
* The number of railway trips made by Chinese passengers hit 20.098 million on Friday, the third day of the 12-day travel rush for the National Day holiday and the Mid-Autumn Festival, the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. said Saturday.
* Over 4 million foreign tourists, including more than 194,000 Chinese nationals, have visited the Philippines since January this year, the Philippines' Department of Tourism (DOT) said on Friday.
* Italy aims to raise at least 1% of gross domestic product (GDP), or roughly 21 billion euros ($22.2 billion), through asset sales between 2024 and 2026, the Treasury said in its Economic and Financial Document (DEF) published on Saturday.
* Canada's real gross domestic product (GDP) was essentially unchanged in July, following a 0.2 percent decline in June, Statistics Canada said Friday.
* Germany's unemployment rate in September only fell slightly by 0.1 percentage points to 5.7 percent, the Federal Employment Agency (BA) said on Friday.
* The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) inaugurated a new quantum technology center called the Deep Tech Lab Quantum (DTL Q) in Geneva on Friday aimed at keeping the defense alliance at the forefront of cutting-edge technology.
* At least 20 people have so far been killed and 58 others injured by disasters triggered by heavy rains in Rwanda since the beginning of September, according to data released by the Ministry in Charge of Emergency Management Thursday.
* Minor floods were reported from many parts of Sri Lanka as heavy rains due to the southwestern monsoon continued, the country's Disaster Management Center (DMC) said on Friday.
