The Yemeni government and separatists in the country’s south signed a peace deal in Riyadh (Reuters) to end a conflict that began in August, when the separatists—backed by the United Arab Emirates—split from the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi forces in the country. Leaders from Saudi Arabia, the United Nations, and the United States hailed the deal as a necessary step toward ending the country’s civil war.
 
The recent conflict in the south unfolded as separatists seized control (BBC) of the port city of Aden from Saudi-backed government forces. Under the peace agreement, half of the seats in a new Yemeni cabinet (Al Jazeera) would be reserved for the separatists and other southern groups. The deal marks an end to one facet of the ongoing war in Yemen, where an estimated twenty-four million people are in need of humanitarian aid.

In a joint statement, French President Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping affirmed their support (France 24) for the Paris Agreement on climate. The two countries signed contracts worth $15 billion, a Chinese official said, on areas including agriculture and energy.
 
South Korea: The U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs is in Seoul today (Yonhap) to discuss an intelligence-sharing agreement between Japan and South Korea that is set to expire on November 23.
 
CFR’s Scott A. Snyder discusses Seoul’s decision to abandon the cooperation pact.

Beijing will soon host delegations (TOLO) from the Afghan government and Taliban to discuss a peace agreement, the Afghan president’s spokesperson said.
 
Tajikistan: Seventeen people were killed in a gun battle after militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State attacked a security post (Reuters) on the border with Uzbekistan, according to Tajik authorities.

The country’s top court upheld the expulsion (Haaretz) of Human Rights Watch’s director for Israel and the Palestinian territories due to his alleged support of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement. The court ordered him to leave the country within twenty days.

France’s defense minister announced that French forces killed (DW) the second-in-command of Islamist extremist group Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) in an operation last month. The group has targeted Malian and French troops and UN peacekeepers in the region. 
 
Cameroon: Around 1.9 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance (UN) due to the country’s separatist crisis, according to the UN Children’s Fund. The total marks a nearly fifteenfold increase from 2017.

Beginning next year, all state schools in Italy will require students (Reuters) to study climate change and sustainable development, the education minister announced.
 
This CFR timeline looks at global climate negotiations since 1992.
 
UK: Campaigning begins today (BBC) for an early general election set for December 12. Prime Minister Boris Johnson called for the election as he has attempted to push through a new draft deal for Britain’s exit from the European Union.

President Donald J. Trump suggested that the United States send military aid to Mexico after nine U.S. citizens from a Mormon community were killed in an ambush (WSJ) in northwest Mexico. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected Trump’s offer and said Mexico’s strategy to reduce armed violence will not change despite rising homicide levels.
 
This CFR Backgrounder looks at Mexico’s drug war.
 
Peru: A court ordered the arrests (Al Jazeera) of fourteen prominent lawyers as part of an anticorruption probe centered on the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.

Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, revised his testimony (NYT) to investigators in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump to say that U.S. assistance to Ukraine was conditional on Kyiv agreeing to investigate the Biden family.