French police said 110,000 people took part in demonstrations in Paris and that the situation remained calm.

On Oct 24, Suzhou's Housing and Urban‑Rural Development Bureau, Natural Resources and Planning Bureau and the Suzhou branch of the National Administration of Financial Regulation issued implementation guidance to apply the national notice on improving the commodity housing sales system (Jianfanggui [2026] No. 3). The guidance mandates that commodity-housing projects on land newly granted from Aug 28, 2026, should prioritise completed-unit sales; deposits for completed-unit sales should, in principle, not exceed 3% of the total purchase price. This is Jiangsu's first implementation opinion under the 8/28 policy.

IAEA says maintenance work has strengthened the connection between the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and its sole remaining external power line.