Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Türkiye has drawn up a proposal to revive Black Sea grain shipping and is in touch with both Moscow and Kyiv. He warned that renewed attacks on shipping threaten food supplies worldwide, three years after Russia abandoned the original 2022 deal that Türkiye and the UN had brokered.
Aselsan, Turkish Aerospace Industries, ARCA, Roketsan and MKE all placed in Defense News' 2026 ranking of the world's hundred largest defence companies by 2025 sales, with combined revenue of $14.9 billion. Aselsan climbed to 40th place on $4.46 billion in sales, and armoured-vehicle maker ARCA entered the list for the first time at 53rd.
Three thousand young volunteers began a ten-month national service programme this week, training in basic soldiering before joining army, air force or navy units for an €800 monthly stipend. President Macron wants the scheme, which replaces the earlier Universal National Service, to grow to 50,000 volunteers a year by 2035 as France rebuilds its reserve pool.
Speaking at the Bled Strategic Forum, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said the European Union suffers from a lack of political leadership and that Brussels' bureaucracy stifles initiative. He also criticised EU migration fines on Hungary as unfair, months after his government secured €16.4 billion in previously frozen EU funds by carrying out anti-corruption and rule-of-law reforms.
The European Commission barred Brazil, its second-largest beef supplier, from exporting meat, poultry, eggs and honey to the bloc from Thursday, saying Brasília had not shown it meets EU rules restricting antibiotics used to promote growth in livestock. Brazil sold the EU more than 92,000 tonnes of beef worth €713 million last year; an audit due to conclude Friday will decide how soon poultry exports can resume.
President Trump said the US would respond after Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired on American positions in Jordan, the first exchange since a lull that began in late July. Iran said it intercepted a US surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz hours after Trump's warning, reviving fears that the fragile pause in the wider Iran war could break down.
The Trump administration invited Russian finance minister Anton Siluanov to G20 talks in North Carolina on Monday, his first in-person appearance at the forum since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, prompting Poland and Germany to warn against normalising relations with Moscow. Siluanov met US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to discuss Trump's Ukraine peace plan; European officials refused to appear in the summit's traditional group photo alongside him.
Meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Kyrgyzstan, President Xi told President Putin their ties had grown 'more solid' despite what he called uncertainty in the international order, and Putin said cooperation was 'developing successfully on all fronts'. The show of alignment comes as Russia leans further on China amid Western sanctions over Ukraine.
Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson publicly challenged Christian Democrat leader Ebba Busch over whether she would ever back a Social Democrat government, before the two met for an unscheduled 'fika' in Sölvesborg on Sunday. Busch declared they were 'agreed on four more years after a blue-yellow victory', but Åkesson said on Monday the underlying question was still unresolved, with the September 13 election two weeks away.
The Swedish krona has fallen 4.15 percent against the US dollar so far in 2026, to 9.61 per dollar, the weakest showing among the G10 currencies after a strong 2025. The Norwegian krone has gained 7.6 percent against the dollar over the same period.