With the war between Israel and Hamas raging, a UN humanitarian official urged the Security Council on October 31 to "not lose focus" on Ukraine, especially with winter approaching.
Three Russians have been arrested in New York for shipping electronic components to Russia in violation of U.S. sanctions, American officials said on October 31.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on October 29 said Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza "may force everyone" to act, in the latest warning issued by the Islamic republic since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said on October 27 that it added EU member Bulgaria to its gray list of countries subject to increased monitoring.
Britain's High Court has dismissed a legal challenge by sanctioned Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman, who wanted funds to pay for his driver and the upkeep of his London mansion.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on October 26 that he was "proud" to keep communications open with Moscow after angering fellow EU leaders by meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin this month.
The sister of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia on spying charges, appealed for his release on October 24 ahead of his upcoming 32nd birthday.
Armenia has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest "insulting statements" made against Armenian officials during a Russian television broadcast.
Pakistan's prime minister offered Friday Prayers in China's Xinjiang Province, as he became one of the few leaders of an Islamic country to visit the region since more than 1 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities there were swept into detention facilities.
U.S. President Joe Biden and European Union leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel delivered a message of unity on October 20 with regard to the Israel-Hamas and Ukraine wars as they met at the White House.
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southeastern Ukraine in June caused $14 billion worth of damage and losses, a report by the Ukrainian government and the United Nations said on October 17.
Thousands of Iranians took to the streets of Tehran on October 13 in a show of support for Palestinians amid a bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and EU.
The United States said on October 6 it was expelling two Russian diplomats in a retaliatory step after Moscow kicked out two Americans last month.
Uzbek cyclist Aleksei Fomovsky and Philippine mountain biker Ariana Evangelista both failed doping tests at the Hangzhou Asian Games, officials said on October 4, making it three announced in 24 hours.
An Iranian teenager is in a coma at a hospital and under heavy security after an assault on the Tehran subway, a rights group said on October 3.
Romania says it will send some 100 troops to bolster NATO's peacekeeping force in Kosovo after mounting tensions with Serbia.
Warsaw and Kyiv announced on October 3 they had agreed to speed up the transit of Ukrainian cereal exports through Poland to third countries, a first step in resolving their "grain war."
A United Nations mission has arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh following an Azerbaijani takeover of the mountain enclave that resulted in the exodus of the region's ethnic Armenian population.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton taunted Russian President Vladimir Putin over the expansion of NATO since launching his invasion of Ukraine.
Four Central European countries urged the EU on September 26 to thoroughly inspect the so-called "solidarity corridors" through which Ukrainian grain passes on its way to third countries.
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