Turkey issued a NOTAM covering five zones and six air routes across the northern and eastern Aegean, from Limnos to the Dodecanese, running from 25 September to 27 October. Greece responded with its own counter-notice rejecting Turkish authority over the areas, a day after further Turkish incursions into Greek airspace were reported on 22 September.
Police detained 72 suspects in Istanbul and courts assigned trustees to 30 companies in a second wave of an investigation into sham property sales used to obtain Turkish citizenship. Prosecutors found 274 of 734 examined sales collusive, worth more than 3.5 billion lira, and moved to strip citizenship from roughly 1,070 people.
Turkey's consumer confidence index rose to 91.9 in September from 90.8 in August, the best reading since July 2018. The improvement came from stronger expectations for household finances and a greater appetite for big purchases, though the index still sits below the 100-point line that separates optimism from pessimism.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu offered talks to Socialist deputies after unveiling a 54-billion-euro savings plan meant to cut France's deficit to 5 percent of GDP in 2027, from 5.4 percent this year. The Socialists called the plan untenable and the hard left threatened censure, while the CGT union has called a nationwide public-sector strike for 29 September.
A Russian Mi-8 helicopter crossed into Polish airspace near Braniewo for 42 seconds on 23 September, flying in from the Kaliningrad exclave. Poland scrambled fighter jets and put ground forces on standby; its military command called it a test of NATO air-defence readiness.
A day after EU ambassadors extended Russia sanctions to 22 September 2029 by agreeing to delist tycoons Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov, Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said Moscow was celebrating: 'they got what they wanted, a sense of impunity, humiliation of the European Union, and division among Europeans'. France pushed to remove Usmanov and Luxembourg to remove Fridman, while roughly 2,600 other Russians and companies, including Vladimir Putin himself, remain sanctioned.
Donald Trump greeted Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, a rare protocol gesture, opening a three-day state visit built around trade, artificial intelligence and critical minerals. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the two sides had agreed to extend their tariff truce to 10 January 2027, with Taiwan and the Iran war also expected on the agenda.
The US-backed Board of Peace presented a six-month, $2.45bn, 66-project blueprint in New York: about $1bn for infrastructure including shelters and rubble clearance, $885m for security, including a hardened base in Rafah for 5,000 international stabilisation troops, and the rest for governance and other programs. The unveiling came as Israeli strikes killed at least five Palestinians on Wednesday and the ceasefire remained fragile, with full reconstruction estimated at over $35bn.
Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson met outgoing prime minister Ulf Kristersson at Sagerska on Tuesday to discuss 'the way forward' after receiving the mandate from Speaker Andreas Norlén to explore a governing coalition. She intends to speak with every party in parliament except the Sweden Democrats, and said on Wednesday she believes the Social Democrats will succeed in forming a government.