Brazil's minister of planning and budget said the Middle East war should not affect Brazilians.

On Oct 9 the Palestinian presidency instructed its foreign ministry and UN mission to request an emergency UN Security Council meeting, urging international intervention and concrete measures to stop escalating attacks by Israeli forces and settlers and to provide international protection for the Palestinian people.

China’s Ministry of Finance released its 1H 2026 fiscal policy implementation report saying it will proactively stabilize employment to raise incomes and strengthen employment support for priority and vulnerable groups. The report calls for adapting to structural demographic shifts and migration by optimizing basic public-service layouts (education, healthcare), implementing childcare subsidies, free preschool and elderly-care consumption subsidies, and reinforcing inclusive, foundational and safety-net social services by improving elder/child service systems and a tiered social assistance framework. It also stresses bolstering emergency disaster relief and enhancing natural-disaster prevention and response capacity.