God Morgon · Thursday, 10 September 2026

Türkiye

Erdoğan meets US envoy Barrack in Ankara as Washington presses Syria and Iraq diplomacy

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received US Ambassador to Türkiye and special envoy for Syria and Iraq Tom Barrack, together with Republican congressman Darrell Issa, at the Presidential Complex on Wednesday. The meeting followed a Barrack-Issa session with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan a day earlier, part of intensifying US-Turkish contacts on Syria and Iraq. No details from the closed-door talks were released.

Source: Daily Sabah · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Turkish, Iraqi and Kurdish security officials meet daily in Erbil to plan PKK disarmament

Security officials from Türkiye's MIT, Iraq's national security service and the Kurdistan Region's security council are holding daily talks in Erbil on a plan for roughly 4,200 PKK members to lay down weapons and leave 18 positions in northern Iraq. Parliament speaker Numan Kurtulmuş said a day earlier that handover to Iraq's central government would begin in October; the Erbil talks suggest both that timetable and who will actually receive the weapons are still unsettled, and a Kurdish politician involved says handover could begin within days and take about a month.

Source: Turkish Minute · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Greece and Türkiye trade fresh accusations as Aegean marine park dispute reignites

Türkiye's decrees establishing marine national parks around Lemnos, Samothrace and Kastellorizo, which drew a formal Greek protest when Erdoğan signed them in August, have revived “gray zones” rhetoric in the Aegean this week, with Greek and Turkish media exchanging sharp accusations. Greece calls the parks illegal beyond Turkish waters, while Athens is separately preparing to resume Aegean seismic surveys as early as October, a move it has called a test of the relationship. Neither government has signalled it will back down.

Source: Keep Talking Greece · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Europe

EU proposes 'Buy European' procurement law that could shut out Chinese bidders

The European Commission unveiled what officials are already calling a 'Buy European' law: a single Public Procurement Act to replace three directives dating to 2014, letting public buyers in energy, water, rail, ports and postal services favour EU firms and reject bids with less than half European content. The proposal responds to a roughly one-billion-euro daily trade deficit with China and would also weight tenders more heavily toward quality over price. It still needs approval from EU governments and the European Parliament.

Source: Euronews · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Zelensky's plane nearly hit by drone leaving Moldova for Norwegian king's funeral

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said a drone almost struck Volodymyr Zelensky's plane as it prepared to take off from Moldova on Tuesday, forcing a temporary airspace closure. A source in Zelensky's office called the Norwegian account exaggerated, saying the alert was triggered by a Russian drone that had strayed into Moldovan and Romanian airspace and later came down on Moldovan territory. Zelensky reached Oslo safely and joined other leaders on Wednesday for King Harald V's funeral.

Source: CNN · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Declassified files show Spain's spy agency warned of Ceuta border storming a day before it happened

Spain's National Intelligence Centre sent Moroccan counterparts and its own Ceuta delegation warnings on 29 July about social media calls for a mass crossing the next day, according to newly declassified documents. Two Facebook and WhatsApp groups with about 180,000 followers were pushing people to scale or swim around the border fence to coincide with a Moroccan holiday. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the warning gave no indication of the scale of what followed, when more than 72,000 people crossed on 30 and 31 July.

Source: The Associated Press · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

The World

IAEA board refers Iran to UN Security Council for first time in 20 years

The International Atomic Energy Agency's board voted 23 to 3, with 8 abstentions, on 9 September to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear program, the first such referral since 2006. The US, UK, France and Germany proposed the resolution; Russia, China and Niger opposed it. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi says the agency has had no access to Iran's nuclear sites since the June 2025 Israeli and US strikes and calls the lack of information “a matter of serious proliferation concern,” though Security Council action is unlikely given Russia and China's veto power.

Source: Al Jazeera · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Iran expands restricted maritime zone beyond Hormuz after it says it struck vessels

Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced a new “prohibited zone” stretching from Chabahar into parts of the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea, warning ships that enter without coordinating with Tehran will be denied insurance and future Hormuz transit. The announcement came a day after Iranian forces said they struck ten vessels attempting to cross the strait without authorisation, part of a conflict with the United States that has run since February. Exact coordinates of the new zone have not yet been published.

Source: Arab News · Wednesday, 9 September 2026

Sweden

Sweden's Liberals pull further clear of the parliamentary threshold

A Novus poll for 6-8 September puts the Liberal Party at 5.8%, up from the 4.3% this paper reported two days earlier, when Novus/TV4 first found them clearing the 4% needed to enter parliament, and up from just 1.9% three weeks before that. Novus calls the rise since that reading “statistically significant,” the sharpest movement of the campaign for a single party, with the election on 13 September. The poll of 2,292 voters also shows the Green Party gaining a point.

Source: Novus · Wednesday, 9 September 2026