1. Vietnam will strive for an economic expansion of 7.6% to 8% in the last quarter of 2024 and is maintaining its full year target of 7% growth.

2. UN: Powerful criminal networks in Southeast Asia extensively use the messaging app Telegram which has enabled a fundamental change in the way organized crime can conduct large-scale illicit activity.

3. Florida prepared for its largest evacuation since 2017 as Hurricane Milton intensified in the Gulf of Mexico on its path toward the US state's western coast.

4. Palestinian health authorities say Israel's air and ground offensive has killed nearly 42,000 people, with another 10,000 feared dead and still unaccounted for under the rubble.

5. Britain has withdrawn the families of its embassy staff working in Israel.

6. Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened criminal cases against 14 foreign journalists since Aug 17 for illegally crossing the border between Ukraine and Russia's Kursk region.