Indonesian President Joko Widodo said that his country is willing to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in his talks with US President Barrack Obama in the White House on October 26 (local time).

Thousands of Cambodians gathered in front of the National Assembly (NA) on October 26 to call on the NA’s First Vice President Kem Sokha to resign.

ASEAN and the European Union (EU) agreed to intensify human rights cooperation and policy dialogues at a series of events during an ASEAN delegation’s visit to Belgium’s Brussels from October 19 to 25.

Poland's eurosceptic opposition conservatives, the Law and Justice party (PiS), won October 25's general election, preliminary official results showed on October 26, as the country shifted towards nationalism and left-leaning economics.

Greece said on October 26 the European Union had offered to pay the costs of accommodating 20,000 more migrants in temporary camps on its islands as the bloc struggles to improve its management of the flow of refugees across Europe.

About 100 people were injured on October 25 when a ferry returning from Macau to Hong Kong collided with an unknown object, a police department official said.

European leaders agreed to cooperate to manage migrants crossing the Balkans but offered no quick fix to a crisis that threatens to take more lives as winter sets in and to set Europe's nations against one another.

European leaders traded threats and reprimands on October 24 as thousands more migrants and refugees streamed into the Balkans on the eve of European Union talks aimed at agreeing on urgent action to tackle the crisis.

The United States on October 24 proposed steps, including 24-hour video surveillance, to end weeks of violence over a Jerusalem site holy to Muslims and Jews.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Kremlin wanted Syria to prepare for parliamentary and presidential elections, as Moscow intensified its drive to convert its increased clout with Damascus into a political settlement.