The U.S. and Greece announced $4 billion in Foreign Military Sales to support Athens’ long-term defense plans as the two countries pledged on Oct. 7 to deepen security and economic cooperation.
Ilham Aliyev’s speech at the 8th Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party on Oct. 2 was noteworthy not only in terms of Azerbaijan’s domestic political agenda, but also for understanding Baku’s foreign policy line.
U.S. President Donald Trump was repeatedly interrupted by protesters on Oct. 7 at a rally in Texas, with media reporting about a dozen people were escorted from the rally.
At least 12 people were killed and 14 others wounded on Oct. 8 when Russia struck two passenger buses in Kramatorsk near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, authorities said.
Sri Lanka’s anti-graft authority arrested former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa on Oct. 7 over allegations that her charity misused donations collected for a children’s hospital.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Oct. 7 called for the nations of the West to return to their civilizational roots and restore the values that drove the rise of Europe and North America to global dominance for centuries.
As Israel gears up for its first elections since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the heart of their campaigns.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Oct. 7 that it wanted more information from Russia on the death of a plague laboratory technician, and on reports of “a second employee with pneumonia of undetermined cause.”
At least 15 people were killed in Russian strikes across Ukraine on Oct. 7, the authorities said, including nine when a missile destroyed an apartment block in the north of the country.
Kosovo parliament voted to curb the powers of its special war crimes court in a last-minute session that narrowly avoided another governmental collapse in the early hours of Oct. 7.
U.S. forces on Okinawa were barred from drinking alcohol for 48 hours and also face a 30-day curfew on Oct. 7 after the murder of a woman allegedly committed by an American Marine.
The Saudi-led coalition said on Oct. 7 it had intercepted a Houthi ballistic missile north of Riyadh, while Yemeni authorities reported a missile and drone attack on Aden International Airport.
The European Commission has proposed gradually opening parts of the EU’s single market to candidate countries under a new enlargement package that ties access to reforms and strategic alignment with the bloc.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Oct. 6 he had scheduled a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin over a laboratory worker’s death in Siberia, as Washington and the World Health Organization called on Moscow to provide more information.
Palestinian civilians continue to face devastating conditions as the war in the Gaza Strip marked its third year on Oct. 7, amid Israel’s ongoing military campaign and blockade of the enclave despite a ceasefire and peace plan.
Bulgarian authorities launched a major search operation on Oct. 6 for the missing crew of a ship that sank in the Black Sea after drones struck two merchant vessels, in an attack Prime Minister Rumen Radev called “absolutely unacceptable.”
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