🇯🇵🇷🇺 | Russia's foreign ministry says Japan should "behave decently" instead of seeking the resumption of visa-free visits to the Kuril Islands — TASS

🇩🇪🇱🇻 | Germany's military says it will deploy four Eurofighter jets to Latvia for airspace protection during the parliamentary elections on October 3 — statement

🇨🇳 | China has opened the 135-km Pinglu Canal, creating a new river-to-sea gateway linking its southern inland regions with ASEAN via the Gulf of Tonkin — Xinhua

🇮🇷🇯🇴🇺🇸 | The US fired 60 to 70 Patriot interceptors and more than a dozen THAADs when Iran launched ∼20 missiles at Jordan last week, officials say — WSJ

🇸🇾 | Syria's parliament has approved a bill officially abolishing the Terrorism Court established in 2012 and nullifying the legal effects of its rulings — SANA

🇨🇦🇪🇺 | The president of the European Commission says she wants to open the door for Canada to being "the first associate member of the EU" — X

🇮🇱🇲🇦 | Israel and Morocco have agreed to upgrade bilateral ties and appoint ambassadors, turning their mutual diplomatic missions into full embassies — ToI

🇷🇺🇰🇷🇬🇧 | The first South Korean container ship to have used Russia's Northern Sea Route has arrived in Felixstowe in the UK after departing from Busan — TradeWinds

🇰🇵🇷🇺🇺🇦 | Up to 25,000 North Korean workers disguised as students are producing UAVs in Russia for use against Ukraine, violating international sanctions — Bloomberg

🇨🇳🇸🇦🇾🇪 | China has privately asked Iran to help rein in the Houthis in response to an appeal from Saudi Arabia, Iranian sources say — Reuters

🇮🇱🇷🇸 | Serbia has officially inaugurated a factory to assemble advanced Israeli-made UAVs on its soil, while at least three more could be built in the future — Tanjug