* Morocco's King Mohammed VI on Tuesday appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri, national coordinator of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), as the country's new prime minister, the royal palace said. El Mansouri becomes Morocco's first female head of government.
* Rejoining the European Union is one option for Britain's future relationship with Europe, said British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in a BBC interview released on Wednesday.
*Ali al-Zaidi, Iraqi prime minister and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, on Wednesday officially announced the conclusion of the U.S.-led international coalition's mission to combat the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq.
* A Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber crashed during a training flight in the Far Eastern Amur region, killing six crew members and injuring another, the Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday.
* A Ukrainian attack damaged railway tracks along the Trosna-Rzhanitsa section in Russia's Bryansk region as a train was passing through, regional governor Yegor Kovalchuk said Tuesday.
* New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay on Wednesday rejected a Dutch environmental group's claim that New Zealand breached climate commitments under its free trade agreement with the European Union.
* China supports the settlement of disputes through political and diplomatic means and hopes Iran and the United States will adhere to the choice of peace, return to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, and resume dialogue and negotiations at an early date, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on Wednesday.
* Iran's government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said Wednesday that the country has received the U.S. proposal in response to its proposed seven-day plan to end hostilities and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
* Israeli security agencies were investigating an incident aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv after the aircraft transmitted an emergency signal and descended sharply before diverting to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
* The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for China's manufacturing sector stood at 50.1 in September, up 0.3 percentage points from August and back to the expansion zone, official data showed Wednesday.
* Cambodia has officially set a new monthly minimum wage of 212 USD for the garment, textile, footwear, and travel goods industry for 2027, Prime Minister Hun Manet announced on Wednesday.
* Relations between Italy and China are "very positive," and the bilateral relationship is "excellent, constructive and dynamic," Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini has said.
* Singapore's economic growth is projected to moderate to 4.8 percent in 2026 and around 3.1 percent in 2027 from 5 percent in 2025, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) said on Wednesday.
* U.S. consumer confidence dropped in September to the lowest level since 2014, according to data released Tuesday from the Conference Board. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index fell by a substantial 6.7 points to 81.9 in September, down from 88.6 in the month prior.
* The European Union (EU) has paid an extra 100 billion euros (about 113.3 billion USD) for the same volume of fossil fuel imports since the start of the U.S.-Iran war, EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen said Tuesday.
* France's consumer price index (CPI) is expected to surge 3.0 percent year on year in September, up from 2.4 percent in August, according to preliminary data released on Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE).
* Slovakia's economy is expected to grow by 0.8 percent in 2026 and accelerate to 1.8 percent in 2027, according to the latest macroeconomic forecast released Tuesday by the Slovak Finance Ministry.
* Australia's annual rate of inflation rose to 4 percent in August, according to official figures released on Wednesday. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said that the consumer price index rose by 4 percent in the 12 months to August, up from 3.5 percent in July.
* Germany's unemployment fell back below the 3-million mark in September after staying above the threshold for two consecutive months, official data showed Wednesday, although the labor market remained sluggish.
* The Panama Canal will increase daily transits through its larger Neopanamax locks to 10 starting Oct. 15, the Panama Canal Authority said Monday.
* South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday night announced a series of new measures against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), adding to ongoing efforts to combat the crisis.
* Japan's total population, including foreign residents, stood at about 122.97 million as of Oct. 1, 2025, down around 3.17 million, or 2.5 percent, from 2020, according to the finalized 2025 census results released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications on Tuesday.
* Nearly 8.3 million refugees and other forcibly displaced people risk losing vital assistance due to "continued severe funding cuts," the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday.
* Reducing food loss and waste can help transform agrifood systems, conserve natural resources and ease pressure on forests, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Qu Dongyu said Tuesday.
* A total of 10 miners were trapped inside a gold mine after a tunnel collapsed in northern Afghanistan's Takhar province on Wednesday, provincial police spokesman Naqibullah Masroor said.
