BRATISLAVA, October 25. /TASS/: Slovakia’s President Zuzana Caputova has formally appointed a new government headed by Robert Fico, leader of the Direction - Social Democracy (Smer) party, as prime minister.

The gala ceremony held at the presidential palace in Bratislava was broadcast by the TA3 channel.

"The republic’s president, Zuzana Chaputova, has appointed a new Slovak government headed by Prime Minister Robert Fico," the head of the presidential administration’s protocol department said.

PHNOM PENH, Oct 25 (NNN-AKP) – The ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP), signed a Cooperation and Coalition Agreement with 27 other political parties today.

CPP President, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, inked the historic deal with representatives of those parties at a ceremony held at the CPP’s headquarters in Phnom Penh.

Speaking at the event, Hun Sen said, the alliance aimed to maintain the country’s hard-earned peace and political stability, the most important prerequisite for socio-economic development.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A German tourist who went missing in a national park teeming with wild animals in northern Zimbabwe has been found alive and in “good health” along with his rental car three days later, a spokesperson for the national parks agency said Tuesday.

Tinashe Farawo with the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said Andreas Hoberg had last been seen buying a drink at the park shop in Matusadona National Park before going for a game drive around 3.30 p.m. on Saturday.

MOSCOW, October 25. /TASS/: Russia has been and still is in favor of creating a genuine system of international security based on fair principles, but if the United States takes no steps to fulfill its obligations, the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) will remain window dressing, and there is no point in Russia's participation in this toothless travesty, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko said.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. warned on Wednesday that without more fuel it will soon sharply curtail relief operations in the Gaza Strip, which has been blockaded and devastated by Israeli airstrikes since Hamas militants launched an attack on Israel more than two weeks ago.

The warning came as hospitals in Gaza struggled to treat masses of wounded with dwindling resources, and as the U.N.'s top official faced an angry backlash from Israel after saying the Hamas massacre of Israelis that sparked the fighting did not “take place in a vacuum.”

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Otis ripped through Mexico’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday as a powerful Category 5 storm, dousing steep mountains and leaving a trail of damage in Acapulco before weakening.

Photos and video shared by local media after dawn broke in Acapulco showed the walls of buildings ripped off, flooded hotel rooms with collapsed ceilings, and rubble and downed trees lining the streets. Persistent rain and flooding made it difficult to move.

RAMALLAH, Oct 25 (NNN-WAFA) – Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday, called for a “complete ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip, and the opening of permanent corridors for the delivery of humanitarian aid to people in the coastal enclave.

Abbas made the remarks, during his meeting with visiting French President, Emmanuel Macron, at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah.

Abbas condemned the killing of civilians on both sides and called for the release of civilians, prisoners, and detainees on both sides.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A poison specialist and former medical resident at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a 32-year-old pharmacist who died days after she went to a hospital in August with stomach distress.

MOSCOW, October 25. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin watched an exercise of the country’s strategic deterrence forces via video conferencing on Wednesday.

The Russian president joined the exercise from the Kremlin’s situational center and listened to the reports by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov.

The exercise was carried out with the forces and capabilities of the ground-based, naval and airborne components of the Russian nuclear deterrence forces, the Kremlin press office said on its website.

GAZA, Oct 25 (NNN-WAFA) – The Palestine Health Ministry, yesterday warned of the possible outbreak of a major epidemic wave in the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing Israeli regime’s airstrikes and siege on the Palestinian enclave.

Ministry spokesperson, Ashraf al-Qedra, said in a press statement that, up to 3,150 cases of diseases were recorded in a single day, after the outbreak of Israel-Hamas conflict on Oct 7, with the most of them reported among children. The diseases included diarrhea, food poisoning, skin symptoms, scabies, and bronchial infections.

Oct 25 (Reuters) - India will resume some visa services in Canada with effect from Oct. 26, its High Commission said on Wednesday, in a move that could reduce tensions caused by the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada.

India last month suspended new visas for Canadians and asked Canada to reduce its diplomatic presence after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited what he said was credible evidence of a potential link between Indian agents and the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian citizen, in a Vancouver suburb in June. Canada subsequently withdrew 41 diplomats.

CAIRO, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egypt is playing a positive role to de-escalate the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Sisi made his remarks during an inspection of the Third Field Army's Fourth Armoured Division in Suez province on the 50th anniversary of the October War victory, according to state-run Nile TV.