Trade : Trump and Xi seal one-year trade truce as bipolar world emerges (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
United States President Donald Trump described the one-year trade truce reached with China in Busan, South Korea, on 30 October as an agreement between "two very large, powerful countries," insisting that he would rate it as "twelve on a scale of one to ten."

Sudan : El Fasher in "an even darker hell" as world watches in resignation (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The situation in Sudan's El Fasher - already the scene of catastrophic levels of human suffering - has descended into "an even darker hell, with credible reports of widespread executions after Rapid Support Forces [RSF] fighters entered the city."

UN : WFP, FAO call for swift action as DRC faces mounting food crisis (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) have warned of the escalating humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with acute food insecurity remaining stubbornly high and emergency hunger levels surging in conflict-hit eastern provinces.