Trade : US signs trade pacts with four ASEAN nations (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) has released fact sheets detailing agreements signed between US President Donald Trump and the heads of Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam in Kuala Lumpur on 26 October.

UN : Trade wars, debt & aid cuts eroding hard-won development gains (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
While in recent decades, the world has become safer, fairer, more inclusive, as well as more prosperous, with human rights being at the heart of this progress, yet today, declining respect for human rights and multilateralism are threatening these very hard-won development gains, the deputy United Nations human rights chief has warned.

Sudan : UN alarmed by reports of RSF atrocities in El Fasher, North Kordofan (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The United Nations Human Rights Office on 27 October said that it is receiving multiple, alarming reports from Sudan that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are carrying out atrocities, including summary executions, after seizing control of large parts of the besieged city of El Fasher, in North Darfur and of Bara city in North Kordofan state in recent days.