President Erdoğan is visiting Seoul from 1 to 4 November at the invitation of President Lee Jae-myung, his first visit to South Korea in eight years. The two leaders are expected to sign agreements on nuclear energy, semiconductors and defence, including Türkiye's Altay tank programme; bilateral trade between the two countries reached 11.4 billion dollars in 2025.
Prime Minister Ünal Üstel said Greek Cypriot objections cannot stop Turkish and Turkish Cypriot energy projects in the Eastern Mediterranean, including a survey ship and a planned gas pipeline from Türkiye. He said a Cyprus settlement can only rest on two separate states living side by side.
The Istanbul Chamber of Commerce said consumer prices in the city rose 2.47 percent in October, up from 2.11 percent in September, while the annual rate cooled to 32.47 percent from 33.55 percent. Clothing, entertainment and communication services drove the monthly increase.
Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahçeli told his party's parliamentary group that Türkiye could have 100 provinces and 1,000 districts in its second century, reviving a debate over upgrading districts to provinces. Analysts say conversion would bring affected districts bigger budgets, partly subsidised by the central government.
The European Commission said the appointment of eight new Constitutional Tribunal judges falls within the powers of the Sejm, Poland's parliament, supporting Prime Minister Donald Tusk in his standoff with President Karol Nawrocki. The dispute escalated on Friday 30 October when Nawrocki tried to enter the tribunal building as police looked on, and Tusk said the next day that restoring calm does not mean accepting lawlessness.
Acting President Iliana Yotova, who favours dialogue with Moscow, won Sunday's runoff with about 58 percent against Andrey Gyurov's 38 percent in parallel vote counts and exit polls, putting her on course to become Bulgaria's first elected female head of state once results are formally confirmed. Yotova opposes military aid to Ukraine while saying she wants Bulgaria to stay sovereign inside a strong Europe.
Peaceful afternoon Generation Z marches against the cost of living and conscription plans turned violent after dark in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Cologne, with police reporting dozens of arrests, looted shops and officers pelted with stones and bottles. Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt blamed the unrest on "left-wing groups and troublemakers from a migrant background" and called for harsh penalties.
The US and German embassies in Moscow warned on Saturday of a "credible threat of a mass casualty event" at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve, prompting a brief evacuation. Russia's FSB security service said it detained a minor who had posted photos on TikTok in tactical gear at the museum, captioned "I found a place."
The head of Israel's elections commission, Noam Sohlberg, said even if fraud suspicions were substantiated they would not undermine the overall result, after Netanyahu's Likud accused Arab-led parties of stealing the vote and taking funding from Qatar, without evidence. Qatar denied the claims; with results still awaiting formal certification, Netanyahu's bloc holds 53 seats against the opposition's 48, short of the 61 needed for a majority, and a coalition between opposition leader Eisenkot and Arab-led parties, which won a record 19 seats, could reach that threshold.
The FBI said a North Korean state-sponsored group it calls TraderTraitor, linked to the Lazarus Group, stole more than $6.3 billion in digital assets from Binance around 29 October and laundered them into Ethereum, making it the largest crypto theft on record. Binance said it had frozen about 90 percent of the stolen funds and resumed phased customer withdrawals.
A six-day truce that began on 27 October, two days earlier than first announced, around the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky, brokered with help from US First Lady Melania Trump and Pope Leo XIV, expired Sunday night with no reported violations, after Ukrainian officials said Russia turned down an offer to extend it. About 167 more civilians were evacuated on the truce's last day, including 22 children, while roughly 2,000 residents of Oleshky were offered a choice between leaving or staying with restored supplies.
The Riksdag votes on Tuesday 3 November at 1pm on Speaker Andreas Norlén's proposal to make Centre Party leader Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist prime minister, proposing a five-party government with the Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, Greens and Liberals, a coalition several of those parties have already said they oppose. The proposal was tabled for the first time on 30 October, with a second tabling due later on Monday 2 November ahead of Tuesday's vote.
A government report found that Sweden's reserve of trained conscripts is shrinking even as it needs to grow quickly, because conscripts leave the reserve after ten years without refresher training while the armed forces lack the staff and equipment to retrain them fast enough. Defence Minister Pål Jonson said the government wants to scrap the ten-year limit and keep soldiers in reserve until age 47, though a researcher warned that only postpones the shortage of trainers.