Greece's prime minister told the UN Security Council that Türkiye's 2019 maritime deal with Libya ignores Greek islands and violates international law. Türkiye's UN envoy answered that the Security Council has no authority to draw maritime boundaries, noting Libya's parliament ratified the deal on 20 October.
Leaders of the Organization of Turkic States adopted a 163-point declaration at their Ankara summit, a day after Türkiye took over the bloc's rotating chairmanship. The declaration commits them to exploring a joint defence industry college in Türkiye, finishing the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway link and building a common Turkic alphabet, and calls for an immediate Gaza ceasefire and a Cyprus settlement respecting Turkish Cypriot rights.
Türkiye's statistics institute TÜİK said its economic confidence index dropped 3.9 percent in October to 97.3, down from 101.3 in September. Consumer confidence fell hardest, down 7.7 percent to 84.8, while retail trade was the only component to improve. A reading below 100 signals pessimism about the economy.
A Polish Constitutional Tribunal judge, backed by the justice ministry, declared herself in charge on 30 October and suspended the court's PiS-aligned president for a month; he rejected her authority and called it a coup d'état. Protesters clashed with police outside the tribunal in Warsaw, and President Karol Nawrocki cut short an official trip to Senegal to return home. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called it a painful but necessary step to undo the previous government's judicial overhaul.
European diplomats threatened to boycott the traditional G20 foreign ministers' photo in Atlanta rather than stand next to Russia's Sergei Lavrov, prompting the US to cancel it. Poland's Radosław Sikorski said he was far from alone in refusing to be pictured with Lavrov, while Germany's Johann Wadephul said there is no normality with Russia even as talks continue. Host Marco Rubio opened the meeting by calling it a moment of choosing.
Grassroots union USB led a nationwide strike under the slogan “shut everything down”, drawing workers, students and pensioners into marches in Rome, Milan, Turin, Naples and other cities against rising living costs and European rearmament spending. A breakaway group clashed with police near Rome's Colosseum, throwing bottles and burning bins before eight people were detained. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi warned that the way such street protests are being mobilised is insidious, after earlier unrest in Milan.
French GDP fell 0.1 percent in the third quarter, its second contraction this year after a 0.2 percent drop in the first quarter and flat growth in the second, which economy minister Roland Lescure said leaves the country at a standstill. Lescure warned France will hit the wall if parliament fails to pass the 2027 budget, raising the prospect the government will push it through by decree. One economist said a technical recession is now highly likely in the coming quarters.
The UN Security Council failed to renew the 35-year-old MINURSO mission after the US and Russia vetoed each other's draft resolutions: Washington's text would have centred Morocco's autonomy plan and scaled back the mission, Moscow's a plain one-year renewal. Russia's envoy called the US veto the political murder of the mission, while Morocco's royal palace said UN personnel and equipment should leave the territory within days. The standoff leaves ceasefire monitoring and mine clearance in Western Sahara without a clear legal basis.
Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia's last major independent newspapers, said it will close on 9 November after Russian authorities revoked its media licence, evicted it from its Moscow office and cut off its bank accounts and donation platform. Its editorial team wrote: “We have been stripped of all our resources. Entirely.” Editor Dmitry Muratov shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for the paper's defence of press freedom; the paper has been one of the few in Russia to openly criticise the war in Ukraine.
Jimmie Åkesson stepped into a public rift inside his own Sweden Democrats after MP Richard Jomshof argued that ethnic and biological ties should define who counts as Swedish, a view senior party figure Mattias Karlsson rejected. Writing in Expressen, Åkesson backed an open definition: anyone can become Swedish by learning the language and adopting its culture and values, regardless of birthplace. He dismissed internal critics as self-appointed ideological guardians and credited the party's rise to keeping politics separate from ideology.