Türkiye
Two sources close to the Saudi military and government told AFP that the three countries will sign a joint defence agreement in Jeddah today. Erdoğan is meeting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who arrived on Thursday with military chief Asim Munir. Neither Ankara nor Islamabad has confirmed an accord, and Türkiye's Communications Directorate describes the trip only as a one-day working visit. If signed, it would widen the Saudi-Pakistani defence agreement, under which an attack on one is treated as an attack on both, into a three-way framework including Türkiye.
The 12-article bill, tabled on Wednesday by the AKP and its ally the MHP, would suspend investigations, prosecutions and prison sentences for many PKK-related offences once the group's disbandment and disarmament are officially confirmed, excluding intentional killings and certain other serious crimes. New Party leader Özgür Özel said other parties received the text only shortly before submission, after ruling-alliance deputies had already signed it, calling the procedure contrary to the spirit of the process. He restated his support for ending the conflict but wants legal steps paired with broader democratic reform.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told a press conference in Ankara on August 6, alongside Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani, that attacks on Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity are among the greatest threats to the country's stability. He urged the international community to press the Netanyahu government for full implementation of the 1974 de-confliction mechanism between Israel and Syria. Fidan also said the integration of the YPG into Syria's national army must be completed so that all armed groups serve under a single governmental umbrella.
Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said in a televised interview that the aim is to make the Ceyhan oil terminals a regional centre for storing, trading and pricing crude and petroleum products, comparing the ambition to Rotterdam. Under a one-year deal signed on August 1, Iraq secured 750,000 barrels per day of capacity on the Iraq-Türkiye pipeline, which the minister estimates could yield around $500 million a year in transit revenue. Ankara wants to extend the route south to Basra and raise capacity from 1.5 to 2.5 million barrels per day.
The party's Central Executive Board, meeting on Tuesday, appointed new provincial chairs in Ardahan, Çankırı, Erzincan, Kahramanmaraş, Karabük, Kırklareli, Kilis and Kocaeli, party spokesperson Müslim Sarı said. The appointments are part of the reorganisation the leadership under Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has been running since the court ruling that reinstated him as chairman. The overhaul is proceeding while Özgür Özel's new party draws defectors, and it decides who controls the party machine in the provinces going into the next electoral cycle.
Europe
Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas told a press briefing that Moscow could reassemble downed Ukrainian drone parts into working devices and use them against critical infrastructure in the Baltics, discrediting Kyiv and weakening NATO's backing for Ukraine. He called it the most realistic current scenario while stressing there is no indication an operation is imminent. Lithuania has stepped up security around the Klaipėda LNG terminal, the LitPol Link interconnector with Poland and the Kruonis pumped-storage plant. The warning follows Lithuanian reports that military intelligence sees such a risk across the region.
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Euronews · Friday, 7 August 2026
Utility Enea was forced on August 4 to cut generation at the Kozienice and Połaniec coal plants after critically low water levels in the Vistula limited cooling water supplies. Euronews reports this removed 1.3 GW from Poland's power system, about two per cent of national capacity. Flow near Kozienice fell to 135 cubic metres per second on August 5, while the plant's cooling system withdraws 80 to 100 cubic metres per second from the river. According to the energy think tank Ember, coal supplies 51 per cent of Poland's electricity and wind and solar 25 per cent.
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Euronews · Friday, 7 August 2026
Juan Jesús Vivas testified on Thursday before the European Parliament's civil liberties committee, convened after roughly 80,000 people entered the Spanish enclave by sea on 30 and 31 July. He called the episode an invasion and demanded the immediate return of the Moroccans still present. Vivas said between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remain in overwhelmed reception centres. The Spanish government declined its invitation to attend; the Commission was represented by migration commissioner Magnus Brunner.
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Euronews · Thursday, 6 August 2026
