Greece's foreign minister, joined by Egypt, Cyprus, Bahrain, the UAE and the EU, said Libya's parliament ratifying its 2019 maritime deal with Turkey changes nothing. The six say the agreement violates the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, because Turkey and Libya have no adjacent or facing coastlines to delimit a shared zone, and that it ignores the rights of Greek islands.
Meeting in Paris, Germany's Boris Pistorius said there is “no signal whatsoever” that Russia's Vladimir Putin wants peace, after US envoy Steve Witkoff said he would offer direct talks between Putin, Trump and Ukraine's Zelenskyy. The EU's Kaja Kallas said she expects a “brutal winter” for Ukraine. Britain's Wes Streeting said Europe seeks no confrontation with Russia but must stay aware of the threat it poses.
The European Commission will present a mandate overhaul for the EU border agency Frontex on Wednesday, letting it move migrants between non-EU countries and help partner states deport people before they reach Europe. Frontex staff could also work inside “return hubs,” processing centres planned in third countries for rejected asylum seekers. The agency's budget is set to roughly double over the next seven-year EU cycle.
Romania's intelligence service says a Russia-coordinated network set a fire in September at a site near a state weapons factory in Brașov, part of a wider sabotage campaign against defence industries helping Ukraine. Two Belarusians were caught in Germany readying further attacks; a Ukrainian suspect is still at large in Poland. Moscow has not responded; it has denied similar accusations before.
Israelis go to the polls on 27 October to choose a new Knesset, with 120 seats at stake and a 3.25% threshold to enter parliament. Polls show former army chief Gadi Eisenkot's new party running close to Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud, in a race shaped by the lack of a state inquiry into the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack, doubled defence spending and rows over ultra-Orthodox draft exemptions.
Brazil's Liberal Party said it “recognises the presidential election results,” even as some leaders still want irregularities “clarified.” The statement came after Donald Trump said the vote “looked very bad” and used the word “rigged,” while insisting he “did not take sides.” Federal police asked Flavio Bolsonaro, the former president's son, to hand over his passport following the election; he says he has no plan to leave the country.
A month after the election, Sweden still has no government. Social Democrat spokesperson Anders Ygeman said naming preferred partners now would be “the wrong time to draw new red lines,” adding the party is “prepared to cooperate with seven of eight” parliamentary parties. Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist, after her own attempt at a centrist coalition failed, has urged Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats to clarify their intentions.