1. Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra outlined her government's policy agenda to parliament, headlined by plans to give away 450 billion baht ($13.4 billion) in handouts.

2. Pope Francis urged political leaders in Singapore to seek fair wages for the country's million-plus lower-paid foreign workers.

3. US supports creating two permanent United Nations Security Council seats for African states and one seat to be rotated among small island developing states.

4. The European Commission said on Thursday it had received offers from electric vehicle makers in China for minimum import prices into the European Union as a way of avoiding tariffs, but had rejected all of them.

5. WHO had carried out a rare evacuation of 97 people, around half of them children, from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment, and urged the resumption of regular such transfers.