God Morgon · Monday, 12 October 2026

Türkiye

Bahçeli says jailed PKK leader should coordinate peace process

Nationalist leader Devlet Bahçeli said Sunday that Abdullah Öcalan, the PKK's imprisoned founder, should coordinate the next, legal phase of Türkiye's two-year effort to end the Kurdish insurgency. He said the government's “terror-free Türkiye” project is now state policy and that there is no turning back. Parliament's oversight commission on the process also set up four subcommittees, covering legal affairs, monitoring, social reintegration and disarmament.

Source: Hürriyet Daily News · Sunday, 11 October 2026

Turkish prosecutors put two journalists under house arrest, detain two more, over fund-scandal reporting

Istanbul prosecutors replaced a travel ban on journalists İsmail Saymaz and Murat Ağırel with house arrest, after Trade Minister Ömer Bolat filed a complaint on 7 October accusing them of presenting unverified profit claims tied to a liquidated investment fund as established fact. Two other reporters, Mustafa Balcı and Şaban Sevinç, were separately detained the same weekend over comments about a ruling-party spokesman. Opposition lawmaker Ümit Özlale had asked whether large sums moved through accounts linked to Bolat and to a minister's father; both ministers deny it.

Source: Hürriyet Daily News · Sunday, 11 October 2026

Europe

Trump claims Russia-Ukraine energy ceasefire; Russian strikes hit power plants hours later

President Trump announced on Sunday, giving no further detail, that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop striking each other's energy infrastructure. Moscow did not confirm any agreement, and hours later a drone hit a power plant in Kyiv, cutting power in the capital, with further strikes following in Kharkiv. President Zelenskyy said Ukraine was ready to halt its own strikes if Russia did the same, but that Kyiv had not been consulted on Trump's announcement.

Source: Euronews · Sunday, 11 October 2026

Poland arrests man over alleged plot against PM Tusk

Polish police said Sunday they had received information about a planned attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński announced the arrest of a man accused of planning it. A spokesman for the minister overseeing intelligence services said authorities judged a “high probability” the plan would have been carried out, and Tusk called the threat “exceptionally concerning”. The arrest follows a tense week in Poland that included attacks on schools and concern over possible Russian hybrid operations.

Source: Euronews · Sunday, 11 October 2026

Ireland proposes 141-billion-euro cut to EU's next long-term budget; Germany says it's not enough

Ireland, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, proposed cutting the European Commission's roughly 2-trillion-euro plan for the 2028-2034 budget by 141 billion euros, with international aid cut hardest at 17 percent and agriculture and regional funds cut only 3 percent. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking for a group of six net-contributor states demanding cuts of “several hundred billion euros”, said the size of the proposal “is not a basis for agreement”. EU leaders are set to discuss the draft at a summit in Brussels on 15-16 October, with officials aiming for a deal by Christmas to avoid the talks dragging into 2027's election year.

Source: The Local Sweden · Sunday, 11 October 2026

The World

Second Houthi strike hits Riyadh airport in two days; Iran calls US response to its terms ‘inadequate’

A second Houthi attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed one person and wounded eleven, Saudi authorities said Monday, a day after an earlier strike on the same airport killed twelve. Iran's security chief Mohsen Rezaei said Washington had accepted some of Tehran's seven conditions to end the wider war but called the response ‘inadequate’, without detailing which points remained unresolved. The Houthis, who say their campaign aims to retake territory lost on Yemen's Red Sea coast, have renewed warnings to airlines and oil-facility workers in Saudi Arabia.

Source: Al Jazeera · Monday, 12 October 2026

Air strike kills at least 72 at Sudan gold mine near Egyptian border

An air strike hit a gold mine near Sudan's border with Egypt on Sunday, killing at least 72 people and wounding more than 50, Al Jazeera reported, citing unnamed rights groups. No group had claimed responsibility by the time of reporting. It is the latest mass-casualty incident in Sudan's civil war.

Source: Al Jazeera · Sunday, 11 October 2026

Sweden

Sweden's government deadlock reaches a decision point as Andersson reports to the speaker

Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson is due to report to parliamentary speaker Andreas Norlén on Monday on her mandate to form a government, a month after a general election left Sweden's red-green bloc with a narrow majority but no government. Talks remain stuck between the Centre Party, which rules out governing with the Left Party, and the Left, which wants cabinet posts of its own. Norlén could now schedule a first vote on Andersson as prime minister, though Swedish commentators give her little chance of winning it.

Source: SVT Nyheter · Friday, 9 October 2026